Facilities & Project Management Track at Healthcare Design is created by AMFP, leading healthcare organization for medical facilities practitioners

September 18, 2025 — The Healthcare Design Conference + Expo broadens its engagement with hospital facility managers and planners each year, expanding the topics dedicated to helping the hospital and medical operations people do their jobs better. For healthcare FMs and operations readers who are considering attending Healthcare Design, it’s worthwhile to review the Facilities & Project Management Track created by the Association of Medical Facilities Professionals (AMFP) detailed below. 

This year’s Healthcare Design Conference + Expo takes place in Kansas City, Missouri, October 25-28, 2025. HCD is an annual conference with a mission of transforming healthcare design through knowledge and research, offering more than 100 sessions that explore how the design of responsibly built environments directly impacts the safety, operation, clinical outcomes, and financial success of healthcare facilities, now and into the future. 

From case studies to research-driven insights, the conference program delivers practical strategies, CE opportunities, and fresh ideas across topics like behavioral health, sustainability, technology, outpatient care, and more. Attendees have access to 100+ sessions with the latest research and trends in healthcare design and to connect with industry leaders and suppliers at networking events, keynotes, and on the show floor.

The Association of Medical Facilities Professionals (AMFP) creates the Facilities & Project Management Track during HCD; its sessions are featured and linked below.  AMFP is an organization where healthcare built environment leaders share ideas, gain knowledge, solve challenges, connect with peers, and shape the future of the industry. AMFP will connect with attendees in booth 330 in Kansas City. 

• E11: Digital Twins: Revolutionizing Healthcare Facility Management with Environmental Intelligence. This session demonstrates how next-generation digital twins transform healthcare facility management through comprehensive environmental intelligence. Learn how high-definition reality capture with environmental sensors creates a layered digital foundation—from basic geometry to advanced air quality and comfort metrics—enabling data-driven decisions for healthier healing spaces.
• E22: Capital Investment in Design Flexibility to Maximize Long-Term Value. Through the use of the ‘Universal Room,’ Maine Medical Center has reimagined its campus over the last decade. This approach maximizes ‘first cost’ by considering one-time costs that form the chassis of healthcare for several decades, meant as an investment to limit future renovations. The foundational approach to “build smarter” by using modular designs for procedure rooms and pre/post spaces, while using a universal room concept for inpatient spaces will reduce the need for future retrofits and the associated cost and downtime.
• E33: From Rural to Revolutionary: The Journey to a Smart Hospital. Programmed as a small-town hospital in Georgia, CHI Memorial transformed its design into a high-tech “smart hospital” by defining technologies that would allow the facility to do more with less, while providing the same quality care. Follow the CommonSpirit Health, Hoefer Welker, and McCarthy Building Companies on a journey through the transformation of a 64-bed rural hospital into a cutting-edge medical powerhouse. Speakers unveil the unique process of seamlessly integrating advanced technologies during the design phase, rather than initial programming, showcasing the expertise needed in healthcare architecture and technology integration.

  

• E44: Top 5 Master Planning Lessons. Facility master planning is important to define a health system’s long-range capital investments in the context of several factors, including clinical strategies, operational goals and facility assets. A key goal of master planning is to also engage stakeholders to understand their current situation and secure buy-in to the plan. Are there opportunities to be more focused and impactful with facility master planning efforts?
• E56: Smart Patient Spaces: Applying Intelligent Technology to Spaces Across the Care Continuum. Advancements in artificial intelligence and a host of intelligent devices are driving a revolution in how healthcare organizations are delivering care and keeping patients and patient family members informed and engaged. The speed at which the “Smart Patient Spaces” market is advancing is causing organizations to confront two major questions: Which devices, software applications, and use-cases are the right ones?, and Where should these devices, software applications, and use-cases be deployed?
• E68: Improving the Patient Experience by Creating a Safe Healing Environment. Healthcare settings, such as hospitals and clinics, should be designed to promote physical and emotional healing. Creating a safe, secure, and welcoming environment for patients is a key factor in improving patient experiences and outcomes. This presentation explores how principles of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) and modern security technologies can enhance the patient experience by fostering a safer, more comfortable, and supportive healing environment. This panel will discuss how integrating CPTED principles with modern security technology can significantly enhance the patient experience by creating a secure, supportive, and healing environment.

For more information about the Facilities & Project Management Track, visit AMFP. For the complete HCD 2025 Conference & Expo schedule, visit HCD.