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Facility and design firms help their healthcare clients build a vision for the future. Our research-driven insights and education tools help facility and design firms understand the challenges and opportunities facing health systems and physician organizations so that they can position their services for success.

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How facility planning leaders can bring equity to their designs

Achieving health equity requires support from every sector of the healthcare industry. Here’s how facility planning leaders can help.

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Understand the healthcare industry’s most urgent challenges and greatest opportunities.

March 29, 2023

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Site-of-care shift resource library

Get resources to help you understand trends, forecast the future, and prepare for how and where care is delivered.

March 29, 2023

The future of hospital-based care

This in-person, executive-only event will build on Advisory Board’s proprietary research to foster peer-to-peer learning. We’ll discuss which disruptions to the hospital operating environment are worth your attention and which are unlikely to cause meaningful changes in the future.

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We surveyed health system strategic planners to find out their top challenges and priorities. Here are our six key findings:

Financial challenges persist despite rebounds in utilization.
Volume is migrating to ambulatory settings.
Disruptors are targeting profit centers, rewiring care paths.
Respondents are trying to optimize existing portfolios.
Health systems are focusing on margin, mission, and workforce priorities.
Capital spending constraints are limiting strategic flexibility.

Refer to our comparison chart to understand and compare key elements from each for the five types of physician groups:

Physician-owned medical group
Enablement partner
National medical group franchise
Virtual care organization
Health system-owned medical group

The U.S. healthcare system is experiencing four significant and simultaneous shifts in where care takes place. Learn more about these trends, including tools modeling data around past and future shifts, in our site-of-care shifts resource library.

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Four roadblocks to advancing facility strategies

Download our guides to understand the issues that often complicate facility planning processes and learn what questions you should ask yourself and your design partners to move past them.

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Facility firms have a critical role in the fight against climate change — and it’s not just about designing green buildings

Learn how facility developers can act as catalysts to help healthcare clients act on climate change.

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The 4 trends facility planning leaders need to know in 2022

Read about the four industry trends with the largest implications for real estate investment trusts (REITs) and architecture and construction firms.

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Disruptor report: Freestanding EDs

Learn how freestanding emergency departments (EDs) are experiencing renewed growth, including how their business models are diversifying and their services are integrating into the broader delivery system.

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Vidal Seegobin

Managing director, Health systems research

Vidal leads Advisory Board's hospital and health system research for executives of healthcare organizations both in the US and abroad.

Sebastian Beckmann

Managing director, Quantitative insights

Sebastian leads quantitative research at Advisory Board and helps teams generate insights based on data.

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Facility design and operations

How facility planning leaders can bring equity to their designs

16 things CEOs need to know in 2023

Site-of-care shift resource library

The future of hospital-based care

Four roadblocks to advancing facility strategies

Facility firms have a critical role in the fight against climate change — and it’s not just about designing green buildings

The 4 trends facility planning leaders need to know in 2022