2025 HCD Conference + Expo
The 2025 HCD Conference + Expo is where owners and providers can find a variety of content focused specifically on their needs and concerns.
From exploring new care models to building better project teams and preparing for future needs and challenges, this year’s 2025 Healthcare Design Conference + Expo, Oct. 25-28 in Kansas City, Mo., offers a dedicated session track focused on topics and perspectives for owners and providers.
Check out these nine sessions in the Owner/Provider Topics & Perspectives track; for the full 2025 HCD Conference schedule, visit hcdexpo.com.
E02 – Med-Psych Unit: Learning from Case Studies and a Reimagining Design Workshop, Sunday, Oct. 26, 9:45-10:45 a.m.
Demand for med-psych units is rising for patients with co-occurring conditions. This presentation addresses challenges such as stigma and staffing, generating prototypes for better design and care, and design approaches and environmental settings that can help improve health outcomes.
E14 – Crowdsourcing and Codesigning: Capturing Voices and Creating Solutions With (Not For) Stakeholders, Sunday, Oct. 26, 9:45-10:45 a.m.
Involving diverse healthcare stakeholders, including patients, in codesign is key for successful solutions. Failure to engage teams can lead to missed deadlines and opportunities. This session highlights strategies for meaningful engagement and fostering user-centered designs.
E25 – Clinic of the Future: Transforming Outpatient Care Delivery, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2-3 p.m.
Prototyping the ambulatory care model standardizes easily repeatable items and innovates flexibility for future adaptation and growth. Houston Methodist Center for Innovation’s efforts have informed this prototyping design. Attendees will learn how innovative technologies can optimize patient and provider flows and discover how artificial intelligence is incorporated into ambulatory care technologies.
E26 – Healing Beyond Walls: Transforming Hospitals into Holistic Family-Care Hubs, Sunday, Oct. 26, 3:15-4:15 p.m.
UPMC Presbyterian Hospital, in collaboration with HGA, is implementing a new family-centric approach to revolutionize the patient experience in adult acute care settings. This initiative focuses on integrating families as vital partners in the healing process.
Attendees will explore how deep engagement with nearly 800 stakeholders shaped guiding principles, programmatic decisions, and design innovations for the hospital expansion.
E47 – Enhancing Pediatric Telehealth with Immersive, Extended Reality Pods, Monday, Oct. 27, 9:30-10:30 a.m.
Children’s Nebraska has been exploring the use of immersive, extended reality pods to provide an enhanced patient experience. In this session, presenters will share research insights related to immersive and hybrid experiences and how space needs to be reimagined.
E59 – Meeting Healthcare’s Evolving Needs: Navigating a New Model of Care at Corewell Health, Monday, Oct. 27, 9:30-10:30 a.m., 3:45-4:45 p.m.
The demand for healthcare is rising, accompanied by significant inflation in labor, drug, and supply costs for hospitals and health systems. This is helping drive lower-cost ambulatory settings, where technology and thoughtful planning increasingly allow for more services.
Learn how Corewell Health’s new ambulatory building in Grand Rapids, Mich., is meeting these market demands through operations, planning, and design and is providing high-quality, accessible services by transforming its model of care
E79 – Shared Perspectives to Hit Target Budgets, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 9:30-10:30 a.m.
Healthcare construction projects face challenges in balancing quality care with financial constraints. This session will encourage collaboration between owners, contractors, and designers to share approaches for managing budgets, addressing challenges across different project sizes and ensuring high-quality, cost-effective facilities that prioritize safety and patient well-being.
E87 – Integrated Facility Design for Pediatric Behavioral Health: Using Lean Principles to Build Space and Processes, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 1:15-2:15 p.m.
This session will explore Children’s Mercy Hospital’s approach to integrate facility design and process improvement for its new suite of behavioral healthcare treatment modalities. By designing space and processes simultaneously, the hospital has been able to ensure that the physical environment and operational workflows are aligned to support the full continuum of care for pediatric behavioral health patients.
E95 – Designing an Urban Healthcare Network: How the District of Columbia is Providing Care for Its Most Vulnerable Residents, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2:30-3:30 p.m.
In 2020, Universal Health Services (UHS) and District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser partnered to bring affordable healthcare to underserved Wards 7 and 8 through a network of facilities. This included a new hospital on the St. Elizabeths East campus utilizing value-based design principles and community engagement.
The project, including a new urgent care center and forthcoming emergency services, aims to improve health equity in the area. Presenters will review the health disparities within a major U.S. urban area and how services are developed to support residents’ healthcare needs.
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