Women's Rural Healthcare
Executive Network

Introducing WRHEN

Women's Rural Healthcare Executive Network (WRHEN)

WRHEN provides a forum for professional and personal growth, career development, creates opportunities for networking and raises awareness and understanding of current healthcare issues for female rural healthcare leaders. WRHEN is an opportunity for female healthcare executives of rural hospitals, physician groups, and with opportunities to expand participant groups across the United States to learn from and support each other.

WRHEN will provide
the opportunity to:

  • Collaborate and network with peers
  • Share learnings and best practices
  • Identify current and ongoing challenges in rural healthcare and potential solutions
  • Hear from guest speakers on current topics and issues in rural healthcare

WRHEN's Key Areas of Focus

Women’s professional development

Rural healthcare access barriers

Workforce challenges

Challenges associated with rural health system transformation

Challenges & advancing technology utilization

What leaders are saying about WRHEN

Christina Campos
Chief Executive Officer, Guadalupe County Hospital

This has been a fascinating conversation, and very helpful. Thank you to Jo, Carol, Rita and Opal. This definitely has been a great use of my time.

Pat Schou
Executive Director, Illinois Critical Access Hospital Network

I wish I had this group when I started out as a rural leader.

Meet Stroudwater Associates WRHEN Sponsors.

Lindsay Corcoran

Opal H. Greenway

Interested in nominating someone?

If you would like to nominate a female rural healthcare executive to participate in the WRHEN, please email Lindsay Corcoran, lcorcoran@stroudwater.com, or click the button below.

Nominate an Executive

The WRHEN welcomes rural healthcare leaders across the gender spectrum who identify as women, femme, non-binary, and other gender identities. Our mission is to include and uplift all who wish to join us in creating this community and learning from one another.