Supplier Strategies Track
Understanding and anticipating the evolving facility and equipment needs of hospitals and healthcare systems can be a major challenge. With the healthcare industry changing at a rapid pace, building strong relationships between customers, construction partners, and specifier firms is key to success. In this track, you will gain a fresh perspective on how to best position your product or service to assist health systems and hospitals in meeting their challenges as well as strategies to navigate complex relationships with GPOs, capital equipment planners, and specifier firms.
The Future of Capital Projects
Wednesday, March 9, 2022 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Moderator: Dennis Daar
Panelists: Rodney Cadwell, Donna Craft & Tammy Russell
In the ACE Summit world, capital projects include the building of facilities, getting capital equipment through the door, and everything between. Once routine capital expenditures are now receiving more scrutiny from senior leadership reflecting the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to the capital planning process being historically inefficient, prioritizing projects, limited resources, and planning for the unexpected are all challenging your customers to be more strategic. In this session, hear from a panel of experts as they discuss how capital projects are changing, how past and present challenges influence their planning processes, and ways you can impact hospital decision-makers going forward.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify how capital projects are changing.
- Analyze the challenges that impact the planning process.
- Define what it means to be more strategic in your capital planning process.
- Formulate strategies to improve capital projects from planning to completion.
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