Josh King
Vice President of Facilities Planning and DevelopmentAppalachian Regional HealthcareJosh King serves as the Vice President of Facilities Planning & Development for Appalachian Regional Healthcare (ARH), a 14-hospital healthcare system serving communities across Kentucky and West Virginia. He leads systemwide capital planning, facilities operations, construction, and real estate strategy—driving modernization, infrastructure resilience, and long-term portfolio optimization. Josh is recognized for translating complex technical challenges into strategic, system level solutions.
Flexibility, Standardization, and the Cost of Overdesign
Standards help organizations decide what job needs to be done, make clear tradeoffs, and move design work faster while improving buying power and cont
…Standards help organizations decide what job needs to be done, make clear tradeoffs, and move design work faster while improving buying power and controlling cost. But healthcare facilities operate in a changing world, so designs also need enough fle
…Standards help organizations decide what job needs to be done, make clear tradeoffs, and move design work faster while improving buying power and controlling cost. But healthcare facilities operate in a changing world, so designs also need enough flexibility to adapt to new products, technologies, and ways of delivering care. This session looks at how to strike the right balance between standardization and flexibility so teams avoid overdesign, p
…Standards help organizations decide what job needs to be done, make clear tradeoffs, and move design work faster while improving buying power and controlling cost. But healthcare facilities operate in a changing world, so designs also need enough flexibility to adapt to new products, technologies, and ways of delivering care. This session looks at how to strike the right balance between standardization and flexibility so teams avoid overdesign, protect budgets, and keep options open for the future.
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