(July 25, 2025) – The Kansas Hospital Association, the Kansas Department of Education and the Kansas Board of Regents are hosting the fourth annual Virtual Health Care Career Day on Feb. 18, 2026. For the past three years, this event has brought together hundreds of schools, and thousands of Kansas students, to learn about 24 different health care careers through videos from Kansas hospitals and live question-and-answer sessions with those health care professionals.
We look forward to building on this success in 2026 and are soliciting applications from Kansas hospitals to profile one of the eight featured health careers for the event, which will take place from 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026. Selected hospitals will profile a specific health care career via a five to seven minute pre-recorded video demonstrating various aspects of health care delivery (examples of videos from the 2025 event can be viewed here) and featuring the providers/clinicians/team members who work in the specific career to show a "day in the life", what that job entails daily and other "hands on" aspects of the career.
If you are interested in being one of the eight hospitals to profile a health care career, and your providers/clinicians/team members who work in that field can attend on both Feb. 18, 2026, and a rehearsal the morning of Feb. 17, 2026, please take a minute to complete this form to inform KHA of your interest by Aug. 5.
In addition to submitting this form, please register here for a required webinar from noon to 1:00 p.m. on Aug. 5. At least one person from your hospital must attend this webinar to obtain further information to be considered for selection. Preferably, the person(s) attending this webinar will be the person(s) coordinating your hospital's career profile video and other logistics of your staff being featured if your hospital is selected as one of the eight hospitals for the 2026 Virtual Health Care Career Day.
After the webinar on Aug. 5, a committee will review and select the eight hospitals for the 2026 Virtual Health Care Career Day. Those hospitals will be notified in early September.
2026 Careers We Are Seeking Hospitals to Profile:
- Laboratory
- Radiology/Imaging
- Dietary
- Advanced Practice Providers
- Social Services (Discharge Planning, Social Workers, etc.)
- EMT/Paramedicine
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
- Pediatrics
If you have any questions, please email Jaron Caffrey. We look forward to helping students learn more about the rewarding careers available in the health care industry!
--Jaron Caffrey