W02 – What’s Next? The Future of Healthcare Project Delivery

Hospital Outpatient Department (HOPD) designation can unlock strategic, financial, and clinical advantages for health systems—but it also fundamentally reshapes how ambulatory surgery environments are planned, designed, and operated.

This highly interactive 4-hour workshop goes beyond definitions to explore the real-world implications of HOPD and ASC designation across planning, design, operations, and revenue cycle. Participants will examine how regulatory frameworks (FGI, NFPA 99/101, CMS provider-based rules) influence everything from occupancy classification and essential electrical systems to patient flow, sterile processing, and survey readiness.

Through a guided, team-based scenario exercise, participants will apply concepts to determine whether an HOPD, or ASC model best aligns with defined clinical, financial, and community parameters. Groups will evaluate trade-offs, defend their decisions, and learn from peer perspectives.

Participants will leave with a practical decision framework, project-start checklist, and peer-tested strategies to align capital investment, compliance, and throughput goals—while reducing redesign risk.

Presented by the Nursing Institute of Healthcare Design

Additional Speakers:

Dawn Pfeiffer, RN, CASC, CAIP, Founder and CEO of Triangles Healthcare Consulting

Stacy Mockridge, Clinical Operations Specialist, Progressive Companies

Julie Dumser, Principal, Branches Consulting

Kevin Meek, RN-BSN, BA, MHI, LSSBB, EDAC, CCHM, FACHE, Vice President-Advisory Services, Haskell

Brooke Karlsen, RN, BSN, MSN, NEA-BC, EDAC, Principal, BK Healthcare Concepts

George Smith, Senior Architectural Project Manager for the Grady Health System

Aaron L. Johnson, PE, LEED AP BD+C, Managing Director of Healthcare Operations at TLC Engineering Solutions

Come ready for candid insights, real-world examples, and practical ideas you can take back to your next project—and help shape the future of healthcare project delivery.