As the population ages and lives longer, how is demand for post-acute-care services being shaped? It seems that the push for collaborations with post-acute providers has cooled, but, for those who do collaborate, how has it worked? With the pressures of healthcare providers to control costs, what techniques are leveraged to deliver cost-effective post-acute-care services? What new opportunities exist with Skilled Nursing Facilities in spite of high hurdles caused by heavy regulation, low margins and declining reimbursement?

As healthcare reform continues to be a major focus, there are many challenges on the horizon. How is reform driving development decisions and what are developers and healthcare systems doing to rise to these challenges? What is the relationship between healthcare systems, MOBs and the developers and how does this impact what is coming down the pike? Hear the perspectives of the developers and systems as they discuss the level of activity in the market, what's in the pipeline, and where we might be headed.

The shift to outpatient care, often at convenient, retail-oriented sites, has been occurring for several years causing the systems to go where the patients are rather than vice versa. How must strategies shift in order to meet the current patient demand? As design strategies evolve, what roles do efficiencies, flexibility and physician productivity play? How are facility designs breaking away from the templated molds of years past allowing buildings to play a role in patient-focused branding?