Event Overview:

The PDC Summit brings together senior leaders working in all disciplines of health care planning, design, and construction to learn, network, and discover ways to create value for the health care built environment. Attend the 2018 PDC Summit to connect with colleagues in the field and learn innovative strategies to increase flexibility for the future of health care.

More than 3,200 senior leaders from hospitals, design firms, and construction companies attend every year.

Choose from more than 70 education sessions.

100% of all conference revenue is reinvested into the mission of optimizing the health care environment.

Earn up to 2.3 CEUs (23.25 contact hours) in just 4 days.

WHO ATTENDS?

HARNESS THE POWER OF NETWORKING

Now more than ever, the quantity and quality of your social network is critical in order to access and leverage connections and information. The PDC Summit is the one unique conference that has a balanced representation of the full health care planning, design, and construction team. Through blending perspectives, the PDC Summit program offers a collaborative approach to building and renovating health care facilities.

PDC SUMMIT ATTENDEES INCLUDE:

Hospital Administrators
New construction and renovation of a health facility is a major investment. Senior administrators with responsibility for the design and construction of health facilities should attend to gain insight on the strategic outlook for the health care physical environment and assess how to maximize operational efficiency through design.

Architects
Whether you want to learn what's new in the FGI Guidelines or hear case studies on evidence-based design, the PDC Summit provides architects with timely information that will affect health care facility PDC now and in the future. Assess the long-term outlook as well current trends and innovations for architects by hearing from a variety of top field professionals, including architects and those in the health care C-suite.

Interior Designers
Interior designers provide a unique perspective to health care planning, design, and construction. Attending the PDC Summit will give interior designers the technical knowledge needed to provide health care facilities with sustainable designs and design for effective patient healing environments.

Construction Professionals
Whether you're attending the Certified Healthcare Constructor (CHC) Exam Review Course, listening to a case study presentation on Lean methodologies, or networking with prospective clients at one of the receptions, health care construction professionals will walk away from the PDC Summit with valuable knowledge and business connections.

Health Care Facility Management Professionals
Maximizing the efficiency of design and construction projects is critical to a health facility's bottom line. Facility managers and engineers working to optimize the physical environment of health care facilities will gain insight from the PDC Summit on innovative operational strategies that compliment design and construction initiatives.

Exhibitor Information:

Reach leaders and decision makers at the most trusted industry event for health care planning, design, and construction.
Whether your company is interested in strengthening relationships with current customers or meeting prospective customers, the PDC Summit connects you with key leaders and decision makers in health care planning, design, and construction. This is an especially important time to reach leaders since many hospitals are undergoing major projects and responding to shifts in the health care climate, as this 2017 construction survey explains. PDC Summit exhibitors can take advantage of more than seven hours of dedicated exhibition time and the opportunity to discuss long-term strategy with senior-level professionals in the field.

About ASHE:

With more than 12,000 members, ASHE is the largest association devoted to professionals who design, build, maintain, and operate hospitals and other health care facilities. ASHE members include health care facility managers, engineers, architects, designers, constructors, infection control specialists, and others. While our membership is diverse, ASHE members share a dedication to optimizing health care facilities and creating and maintaining safe healing environments. ASHE, a personal membership group of the American Hospital Association, is a trusted industry resource that provides education, regulatory guidance, networking, advocacy representation, and professional development for our members. ASHE is committed to our members, the facilities they build and maintain, and the patients they serve.

About the AHA:

The American Hospital Association (AHA) is the national organization that represents and serves all types of hospitals, health care networks, and their patients and communities. Nearly 5,000 hospitals, health care systems, networks, other providers of care and 43,000 individual members come together to form the AHA.

Through our representation and advocacy activities, AHA ensures that members' perspectives and needs are heard and addressed in national health policy development, legislative and regulatory debates, and judicial matters. Our advocacy efforts include the legislative and executive branches and include the legislative and regulatory arenas.

Founded in 1898, the AHA provides education for health care leaders and is a source of information on health care issues and trends.