As healthcare systems navigate an evolving landscape of patient care, sustainability goals, and financial pressures, the demand for innovative project delivery methods continues to grow. This plenary session will explore the current state of the healthcare project delivery market, providing insights into trends shaping the industry, emerging challenges, and opportunities for growth. Join industry leaders to discuss how shifting priorities, funding mechanisms, and technological advancements are redefining the way healthcare projects are delivered, from large-scale facilities to smaller, mission-critical initiatives.

Healthcare facilities are where we go in an emergency. We bet our wellbeing on their continuous operation regardless of emergencies, natural disasters, and extreme weather events. In an era where we’re facing more, resilience in mandatory.

Industry experts Sutter Health, Stantec, and a General Contractor get together to pose questions and explore and discuss approaches and tools that can deliver on resiliency and long-term carbon savings while strengthening community and infrastructure resilience, including: 

• The role of climate hazard screening in design and expanding resilience efforts to align with community and patient health outcomes, ensuring healthcare facilities not only survive disruptions but thrive as community hubs.
• Blanket electrification of hospitals to help reduce carbon emissions – is the medicine worse than the disease? What hybrid options may offer the benefit of reduced overall carbon emissions, reduced capital and operational costs, and greater resilience against future climate uncertainty?
• Design to anticipate future climate scenarios, without the burden of cost today: Strategic approaches to incorporating resiliency for operational longevity, and techniques for using digital twins and simulations to adapt healthcare facilities to changing needs.
• Preparing facilities for dynamic regulatory requirements and environmental changes with adaptable, scalable designs
• Interactive Resiliency Mapping: showcasing digital twin technology’s ability to enable real-time monitoring and ‘resiliency simulations’ of facilities.
• Carbon Impact Forecasting: designed to calculate long-term carbon savings from various design choices, this tool underscores the community and environmental benefits of resilient infrastructure, making it particularly appealing.

Join us to explore how your next facility could be leading the way in creating a more resilient and sustainable community while also outperforming a traditional build.

Hear directly from hospital leaders during our exclusive fireside chats!  These conversations will shed light on their major projects, the difficulties they navigate, important lessons learned, and their vision for what lies ahead.

Join us as multiple Academic Medical Center leaders discuss best practices from the Academic Healthcare Provider lens regarding the P3 development model including financing, design, construction and strategy. This session will dive into the opportunities that a P3 model specifically offers the Academic Medical Real Estate community and how other Academic Health projects can benefit from the P3 model.

Join us for an engaging and interactive luncheon program focused on one of California's most critical infrastructure challenges: hospital seismic safety compliance. With the 2030 deadline fast approaching, this conversation has never been more urgent. During this innovation lunch, experts will delve into the current state of compliance and the steps being taken to ensure hospital's meet seismic safety standards on time. Attendees will gain insights into how cities, counties, and healthcare systems are preparing to meet this essential mandate, with a focus on practical solutions and innovative approaches to achieving seismic resilience. Whether you're involved in hospital design and construction, healthcare operations, or emergency preparedness, this luncheon offers a valuable opportunity to acquire actionable knowledge and engage in meaningful dialogue about the future of California’s healthcare infrastructure.

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This panel will discuss UCHealth's approach to meeting community needs at Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, CO, which received a robust financial commitment to an array of behavioral health services. The vision was to provide a full continuum of mental healthcare on a single campus, including adult and adolescent inpatient beds intentionally located to relieve Emergency Department pressure, Interventional Psychiatry options, and Outpatient services including IOP/PHP and individual therapy connected to primary care. A secure rooftop courtyard will help reduce lengths of stay. The panel includes hospital clinical team members, an architect from CannonDesign, and partners from Swinerton Builders.

There are certain business considerations that a government must review before starting the P3 process. In this panel we will discuss the elements that should be considered as the public builds out the business case for a P3. In addition, panelists will share ways to effectively communicate the business case to the community at large.

In today’s rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, integrating advanced technology into facility design and construction is no longer optional—it’s essential. This roundtable discussion explores the critical benefits of involving a technology consultant early in the project lifecycle and the risks it helps mitigate.

Hear directly from University of Nebraska Medical Center as they discuss the largest capital project in the history of the state of Nebraska. During this fireside chat, presenters will discuss how the Board of Regents approved IPD as the project delivery method and the use of the Integrated Form of Agreement as the contracting structure for Project Health. Additionally, they explain how the trade partners were selected, based on best value, and how the team has been onboarded to work in the co-located space.  Finally, the presenters will provide lessons learned on the robust Validation process that is essential to this delivery model and contract. 

Join us at this special evening networking receptions for all attendees. Enjoy drinks and light fare while meeting with exhibitors, speakers, and conference delegates. 

Healthcare facility owners and managers: let's talk innovative project delivery. Bring your questions for AIAI's procurement experts as you engage in an interactive discussion on best practices for delivering cost-efficient, budget certain facilities. Topics will include minimizing current budgetary impacts; strategies for identifying and leveraging new revenue streams; and examples of how healthcare facilities are decarbonizing their operations.

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Hear directly from hospital leaders during our exclusive fireside chats!  These conversations will shed light on their major projects, the difficulties they navigate, important lessons learned, and their vision for what lies ahead.

This presentation will explore the opportunities and lessons learned in the design and development of the Redding Rancheria Tribal Health & Wellness Village, a first-of-its-kind facility merging primary care and health and well-being resources into one facility. By combining a 70,000-square-foot outpatient clinic with a 90,000-square-foot wellness center, the center creates a new model for continuum of care and a focus on whole-person health. The Health and Wellness village will be a community destination, addressing many of the region’s specific challenges and wellness issues, with a focus on preventive care and generating better long-term outcomes. 

The presentation will study the development process for the Redding Rancheria facility from the owner, designer and construction perspective. Discussions will focus on the search for operational efficiency and strategies to reduce costs throughout the process. Redding Rancheria was designed for flexibility and the ability to adapt to changing community needs, healthcare model of the future, and technology advancements. The panel will offer their insights into best practices and approaches for creating facilities that can blend with new technologies and evolve with their communities, while generating return-on-investment in new ways. The Redding Rancheria Tribal Health and Wellness village can serve in many ways as a valuable prototype for similar facilities, offering innovative ideas and design strategies to address the industry’s future wellness and preventative care model.

Explore how artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics are transforming healthcare facilities. From predictive maintenance to enhancing patient outcomes, this session will delve into how healthcare organizations are integrating AI to streamline operations and optimize infrastructure management.

This session highlights the benefits and challenges of converting an existing 280,000 SF, 5-story vacant call center into an OSHPD 3 Medical Office Building for SAC Health, the nation's largest specialty-based and teaching Federally Qualified Health Center. As a first time Owner, with financial and schedule restraints, SAC Health provides healthcare services to underserved populations. 

The challenges of this adaptive reuse facility included the need for accessibility and systems upgrades, working within the structural weight limits of the existing raised floor assembly to avoid seismic upgrade, and maintaining that the existing outpatient surgery center remained functional throughout the entirety. Navigating these hurdles, a fast-paced progressive design-build model emerged. The success of the project hinged on selecting a strategic building location, providing adaptability for future growth, selecting an interdisciplinary Design/Build team, and expediting the construction process. 

Benefits include sustainability, economical outcomes, and operational efficiency. Repurposing an existing vacant call center into an outpatient facility not only reduced the impact of embodied carbon, but also reduced the amount of debris sent to landfills. Another advantage of the rapid speed-to-market approach was accelerated occupancy. Overall, this case study underscores the viability and obstacles of adaptive reuse structures in a fast-paced healthcare market.

Alternative delivery solutions drive innovation and can transform facility efficiency, impacting operations, addressing sustainability initiatives and supply. Public Private Partnerships can be a valuable tool as administrators and facility managers are charged with modernizing energy delivery and management at healthcare facilities. Join this session to gain an understanding of the impact of including long term operations & maintenance in Alternative Delivery models and how sustainable solutions begin with innovative ideas.

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center needed to expand its emergency department capacity within its urban, landlocked site. This expansion and renovation focused on enhancing patient experience and surge capacity through adaptable and scalable strategies, including indoor/outdoor waiting, One-Step Triage, an Accelerated Care Unit, and a Behavioral Flex Unit. The collaborative team of Owner, Architect, and GC developed a flexible construction phasing strategy to maintain hospital operations throughout the project. Led by representatives of the hospital, architect, and general contractor, you don't want to miss this case study!