By invitation. Thursday and Friday, 2027.
Hospital Facility Leaders Summit
Two days with peers who keep hospitals running on tight capital, people and power, and only the vendors you choose to meet.
- ColumbusApril 29–30168 days to go
- DetroitOctober 28–29350 days to go
Led a project worth 20 minutes? Tell it to your peers.
Ten past delegates, in their own words · 1:47
- 35summits since 2007
- 88hospital and health-system facility leaders have come
- 20past summits had hospitals or health systems in the room
- 2days. Home Friday afternoon.
Hospital leaders have stood at the front of this room.
Facility, engineering and energy leaders from these hospitals and health systems presented their own projects at FMA summits, and hospital facility teams came to hear their peers. Past speakers and delegates, not the 2027 program.
Hospital speakers at past FMA summits
Wendy GettlemanVice President, Facilities Management & Real EstateDana-Farber Cancer Institute“Dana-Farber's Cutting Edge Capital Research Projects at Longwood Center”
Walter JonesSenior Vice President, Facilities Planning and DevelopmentParkland Health and Hospital System“Facilities Planning and Development at Parkland Health and Hospital System”
Jeff RichExecutive Director - Major Projects & Efficiency ImprovementGundersen Lutheran“Energizing Healthcare”
Ron FrantzenExecutive Director of Facilities ManagementMcFarland Clinic“Energy Conservation Measures Affecting The Bottom Line”
John CrouchDirector of FacilitiesAdventHealth Wesley Chapel“Arguments For Acquiring Technology”
John GioiosoSenior Director, Corporate Building Services & Real EstateFresenius Medical Care North America“A Project Delivery Efficiency Model”
Marcus LewisEnergy ManagerNYC Health + Hospitals“Energy Efficiency Strategies at NYC Health + Hospitals”- Ruby CruzEnergy ManagerNYC Health + Hospitals“Energy Efficiency Strategies at NYC Health + Hospitals”
Tyler WeaverCoordinator of Sustainability & Waste Management ProgramsChildren's Hospital of Philadelphia“How to Build a Sustainability Program on a Shoestring Budget”
Hospital facility leaders who came as delegates
88 facility leaders from 47 hospitals and health systems. Their titles, as they registered.
- Parkland Health and Hospital System
- Senior Program Manager, PDC
- Sr. Program Manager - NPH Central Plant
- Sr. Vice President-Facilities Planning and Development
- Sustainability Engineering Coordinator
- Sr. Program Manager
- Production Manager
- Sr. Program Manager - Energy & Sustainability
- Sr. Program Mgr. For Central Plant
- Electrical Engineer
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
- Vice President, Facilities Management & Real Estate
- MEP Project Manager
- Director of Facilities Operations
- Senior Business Manager
Presence Health- Facilities Director
- Contract Administrator
- Director of Facilities
- Supervisor Plant Operations / Services
Aurora Health Care- Energy Program Manager
- Senior Director Facilities Operations
- Vice President Facilities Operations
Intermountain Healthcare- Energy Management
- Director, Program Development
- Director of Sustainability
Norton Healthcare- Division Director, Engineering
- Principal Engineer
- Facility Director (Suburban Norton)
Spectrum Health- Facilities Engineering Manager
- Senior Facilities Engineer
- Engineering Project Manager
UT Southwestern Medical Center- Director General Services
- Utilities Operations Manager
- Director of Utilities
CentraState Healthcare System- Manager for Facilities Management
- Director of Environmental Services
Froedtert Health- Data Center Lead
- Project Manager
Indian Health Service- General Engineer
- Facility Manager
Massachusetts General Hospital- Facilities Engineer
- Energy Conservation Manager
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- NYC Health + Hospitals
- Energy Manager
- Associate Facilities Director
University of Chicago Medical Center- Associate Director of Facilities Operations
- Facilities Engineer
- Brooklyn Hospital CenterBrooklyn Hospital Center
- Vice President of Facilities
- Associate Director Engineering
- Holy Name Medical CenterHoly Name Medical Center
- Vice President Facilities
- Director Plant Maintenance
- Loyola University Medical CenterLoyola University Medical Center
- Administrative Director of Engineering, Planning, Design & Construction
- Administrative Director Engineering
- Medical College of WisconsinMedical College of Wisconsin
- Director of Engineering and Maintenance
- Building Control Systems / Maintenance Operations Manager
- Medical University of South CarolinaMedical University of South Carolina
- Facility Operations Manager
- Sustainability Manager
- Methodist HospitalsMethodist Hospitals
- Director Facilities
- Vice President Government & External Affairs
- Peninsula Regional Medical CenterPeninsula Regional Medical Center
- Executive Director for Facilities
- Project Manager
- South Shore Medical CenterSouth Shore Medical Center
- Supervisor Site Management
- Support Services Supervisor
- Streamwood Behavioral Health SystemsStreamwood Behavioral Health Systems
- Director of Plant Operations
- Facilities Manager
Banner Health- Director of Environmental Health, Safety & Security
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center- Energy & Utilities Manager
Children's Hospital Colorado- Senior Manager, Building Systems
Encompass Health- Director of Facilities
- Gundersen Lutheran
- Executive Director - Major Projects & Efficiency Improvement
Hackensack University Medical Center- Business Development
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center- Energy & Sustainability Project Manager
- Advocate Health CareAdvocate Health Care
- Manager of Energy Solutions
- Audie L. Murphy Veteran's HospitalAudie L. Murphy Veteran's Hospital
- Energy Manager
- Denver HealthDenver Health
- Director of Engineering
- Exempla St. Joseph HospitalExempla St. Joseph Hospital
- Director of Facilities
- Memorial Hospital South BendMemorial Hospital South Bend
- Director Facilities Services
- Mercy HealthMercy Health
- Executive Director Energy/Sustainability
- Muskogee Community HospitalMuskogee Community Hospital
- President
- Newton Wellesley HospitalNewton Wellesley Hospital
- Director of Engineering & Facilities
- OSF HealthCareOSF HealthCare
- Corporate Director of Facilities Operation
- St. Anthony Summit Medical CenterSt. Anthony Summit Medical Center
- Director of Facilities
- St. Luke's Health NetworkSt. Luke's Health Network
- Director Facilities
- Texas A&M Health Science CenterTexas A&M Health Science Center
- Senior Electrical Engineer
- Uintah Basin Medical CenterUintah Basin Medical Center
- Director of Engineering
- UMass Medical SchoolUMass Medical School
- Sustainability & Energy Manager
- University Health SystemUniversity Health System
- Project Manager/Quality Assurance Inspector
- University of Arkansas for Medical SciencesUniversity of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
- Energy Manager
- UT Health Science Center at San AntonioUT Health Science Center at San Antonio
- Plant Manager
Built around the problems you’re working on.
What hospital facility leaders are up against this year and next, with the numbers behind it (most are from the 2026 ASHE/HFM hospital construction survey). Every talk on the program answers one.
are building a new central energy plant within the next three years.
Fix it, replace it or build new.
ASHE/HFM, 2026are replacing or upgrading air handlers in the next 12 months, the No. 1 equipment project.
Clean air without closing a unit.
ASHE/HFM, 2026PJM's capacity price hits its cap from June 2027. Ohio, western Pennsylvania and West Virginia budgets feel it first.
Procurement, peak demand and the contract.
PJMreported projects on or under budget and on or ahead of schedule in 2025.
Ready for patients, not just substantially complete.
ASHE/HFM, 2026said facilities teams are involved in decisions about cybersecurity design.
Securing the systems that keep care running.
ASHE/HFM, 2026Fixed a problem that isn’t on this list? Propose it for the program.
Propose a talk
Facility leaders come to hear how other hospitals fixed it.
The program is built from projects hospitals and health systems actually finished, presented by the facility leader who ran them. Every session below is open. If you’ve solved a problem like these, your story belongs here.
Capital renewalFix it, replace it or close it? Defending your 2027 infrastructure capital planSpeaker wanted
23% of respondents are building a new central energy plant within the next three years (ASHE/HFM, 2026).
The problem: Aging plants and equipment compete with clinical programs for the same capital, and every board asks why this one first.
We’re looking for: A hospital or system that rebuilt its capital plan around condition data and got it funded.
The power billLower the energy bill without closing an OR: controls, central plants and cutover riskSpeaker wanted
PJM's capacity price hits its $333.44/MW-day cap from June 2027.
The problem: A hospital never closes, so every plant or controls upgrade has to cut over without touching patient care.
We’re looking for: A hospital that cut energy use or peak demand with a plant or controls project, with the before-and-after numbers.
Air handlersReplacing air handlers in a building that never closesSpeaker wanted
Air handlers are the No. 1 equipment project in the next 12 months: 20% of respondents (ASHE/HFM, 2026).
The problem: Air handlers serve ORs, isolation rooms and patient floors that can't lose air or pressure.
We’re looking for: A hospital that replaced or upgraded air handlers in occupied areas without affecting care.
Survey readinessSurvey-ready every day: the testing and maintenance evidence surveyors ask forSpeaker wanted
Inspection, testing and maintenance records are what a survey checks first.
The problem: Generator tests, utility-system records and life-safety documents live in too many places.
We’re looking for: A team that keeps its testing and maintenance records survey-ready all year, not the week before.
Opening dayOpening day is not substantial completion: commissioning, water safety and staff readinessSpeaker wanted
48% of respondents reported projects on or under budget and on or ahead of schedule in 2025 (ASHE/HFM, 2026).
The problem: New buildings open with controls not tuned, water systems not ready and staff who haven't trained on them.
We’re looking for: A hospital that opened a new building or wing on time and ready for patients, and what it would do again.
DowntimeWhen the building or the network fails: downtime, building-controls cyber and violence responseSpeaker wanted
Only 38% of respondents said facilities teams are involved in decisions about cybersecurity design (ASHE/HFM, 2026).
The problem: Building automation is now a network target, and a power, plant or controls failure has to be run without stopping care.
We’re looking for: A team that ran a downtime drill or secured its building controls, and what it found.
PeopleWhen your best technician leaves: keeping the hospital running without losing what they knowSpeaker wanted
A facility-management vacancy takes 17 weeks to fill on average (IFMA, 2026).
The problem: Retirements and turnover take undocumented know-how about the plant with them.
We’re looking for: A hospital that built a training pipeline or captured know-how before it walked out the door.
- Open slotYour project goes here.Propose it
People like you came before.
Past delegates are not 2027 attendees. They show who you’d be in the room with.
- 88facility leaders from 47 hospitals and health systems
- 18energy and sustainability leaders
- 36facilities and physical-plant leaders
See the hospitals and health systems that came, and the ones that came back
They came back.
- Parkland Health and Hospital System5 summits, 9 people
- Presence Health2 summits, 4 people
- Norton Healthcare2 summits, 3 people
- Froedtert Health2 summits, 2 people
- Loyola University Medical Center2 summits, 2 people
- Methodist Hospitals2 summits, 2 people
Health systems
Parkland Health and Hospital System, Presence Health, Spectrum Health, Aurora Health Care, Intermountain Healthcare, Norton Healthcare, CentraState Healthcare System, Froedtert Health, Streamwood Behavioral Health Systems, Advocate Health Care, Banner Health, Denver Health, Mercy Health, OSF HealthCare, St. Luke's Health Network, Encompass Health
Hospitals and medical centers
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Peninsula Regional Medical Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center, NYC Health + Hospitals, Brooklyn Hospital Center, Holy Name Medical Center, Indian Health Service, Memorial Hospital South Bend, Methodist Hospitals, Massachusetts General Hospital, South Shore Medical Center, Audie L. Murphy Veteran's Hospital, Children's Hospital Colorado, Exempla St. Joseph Hospital, Gundersen Lutheran, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Academic medical centers
University of Chicago Medical Center, Loyola University Medical Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, Medical University of South Carolina, Hackensack University Medical Center, University Health System, Texas A&M Health Science Center, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, UMass Medical School
The people at your table.
Facility, engineering and energy leaders from hospitals and health systems: people working on the same problems you are. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are assigned seating, so you meet them.
We’re inviting health systems, community hospitals, academic medical centers, children's hospitals, specialty and rehabilitation hospitals and outpatient and ambulatory networks.
Thursday and Friday. Home Friday afternoon.
Same two days in Columbus and Detroit: 20-minute talks by peers, the meetings you picked, and meals at a table of people like you. Not a trade show.
Thursday
- Breakfast at assigned tables
- 20-minute talks by facility leaders
- Coffee and shop talk
- 20-minute talks by facility leaders
- Lunch at assigned tables
- 20-minute talks by facility leaders
- The meetings you picked, 20 minutes each
- Coffee and shop talk
- 20-minute talks by facility leaders
- Reception, then dinner at assigned tables
Friday
- Breakfast at assigned tables
- 20-minute talks by facility leaders
- The meetings you picked, 20 minutes each
- 20-minute talks by facility leaders
- Closing lunch
- Last talks, then head home
Photos are real FMA Summit rooms. No stock photography.
Your total investment.
Each seat covers the whole summit: full access to both days, every talk, your meetings and all meals. The more people you bring from your hospital or health system, the lower the rate for each added seat. A seat is one person at one summit, and seats are interchangeable: use them in Columbus, in Detroit, or both.
- Your first 2 seats$2,900each
- Seats 3 to 5$1,850each
- Every seat after that$950each
A team of three is $7,650. A team of six is $12,300.
Register your teamPick how many people are coming and see your total.
Complimentary for speakers.Present a 20-minute talk and your seats are complimentary, as our thank you for speaking: up to 6 people from your hospital.Propose a talkAnd only the vendors you pick.
FMA brings in a short list of vendors from a range of industries to help with these problems. You choose which ones you meet.
- Tell us what you’re working on.Before the summit, in a few lines.
- Choose who you want to meet.Both sides accept, or the meeting doesn’t happen.
- Get your schedule before you arrive.20 minutes each, at a set time on Thursday or Friday.
- Aging infrastructure
- Construction, HVAC, building automation, facility software
- The power bill and resilience
- Performance contracting, energy procurement, microgrids, backup power, electrical, lighting
- Staff and contractors
- Facilities outsourcing, facility software
- Survey readiness
- Facility software, backup power and generator testing, electrical
- Infection-safe air
- HVAC, building automation, cleaning
- Safety and security
- Security, building-systems cybersecurity
In writing, from past delegates
“…I too enjoyed the summit and found lots of good information to use.”
“…Enjoyed doing the presentations and glad attendees got something out of it. More than happy to do another.”
Your questions, answered by delegates.
Past FMA delegates on camera, in their own words: facility leaders from universities and from other industries. Each one is under a minute.
Brendan Sullivan, Estée Lauder · Stan Nolan, University of Connecticut · Mathew Emden, Principia College 0:38
David Muzzy, Texas Christian University · Al Hildreth, General Motors · Kevin Butt, Toyota · Brendan Sullivan, Estée Lauder 0:42
Jamie Meyers, Walgreens · Steve Driver, Sanofi · Stan Nolan, University of Connecticut 0:43
Chauncey Jenkins, University of Maryland · Jamie Meyers, Walgreens · Steve Driver, Sanofi 0:38
David Muzzy, Texas Christian University · Mathew Emden, Principia College · Jamie Meyers, Walgreens 0:32
Brendan Sullivan, Estée Lauder · Scott Bohnhoff, FBI · Mathew Emden, Principia College 0:49
Register your team.
Choose your summit and how many people are coming, and your total investment shows right away. Then fill in the participation agreement, sign it and make your investment by card. Seats are interchangeable: use them in Columbus, in Detroit, or both.
Have a project worth sharing? Tell it to your peers.
20 minutes, the real numbers and what didn’t work, in front of facility leaders working on the same problems. Bring the company that did the work, if you like. Proposing commits you to nothing.
Complimentary for speakers. Present a 20-minute talk and your seats are complimentary, as our thank you for speaking: up to 6 people from your hospital.
What every talk covers
- The problemWhat was happening in the hospital.
- What was at stakeEnergy, maintenance, downtime, survey findings or patient care.
- The decisionThe options you weighed, and why this one.
- The workWhat changed, how long it took, what went wrong.
- The resultsMeasured before and after. Achieved, estimated or identified, said plainly.
- The lessonsWhat another hospital should check first.
Who's behind it.
Started FMA in Montreal in 2007 and has run every summit himself: 35 of them, 17,000+ meetings. Every delegate is invited, every meeting is booked before anyone arrives, and the group stays small.
Read the full story
Every sponsor and speaker, as printed. Facility leaders from hospitals and health systems came to 20 of the past summits.
Open any program“FMA Summits completely redefines the standard for executive networking.
…FMA’s invitation-only, project-driven format cut straight to the chase.…”
Your hospital fixed something. Tell the room how.
Propose a 20-minute talk, or register your team. Reply to the email that brought you here, or write to Joe Piazza at info@fmasummits.com.
35 summits since 2007. The films and quotes on this page are from past summits.