Healthcare facilities have unique needs and considerations when balancing both the safety and security of patients, employees, and guests, along with providing healthy and healing environments. When operating and maintaining healthcare facilities, facility managers need to take into consideration myriad complex situations regarding emergency preparedness, backup power, and access control, along with creating clean and healthy environments.

These four sessions from the Healthcare Facilities Summit focuses on the trends and important components of managing and operating hospitals, medical centers, and long‐term care facilities.

• Protecting Healthcare Facilities and Assets: Learn how to protect the three big assets of your healthcare facility: people, data, and physical assets.

• Emergency Preparedness Tactics for Healthcare Facilities: Facility managers must ensure buildings and organizations are ready to handle crises while supporting a high level of care.

• Preparing for the Unexpected Within the Inpatient Environment: The way we design healthcare facilities needs to be more flexible and adaptable for an unknown future. We must focus on best practices, evidence‐based design, flexibility, and future state operations.

• Getting Top Management's Attention to Approve Projects: Hear proven strategies to get top management's attention, speak the language they understand, and start you on your way, using a real case study.