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Visit NIHD Virtually at the 2021 PDC Summit!

May 28, 2021

NIHD is a Supporting Organization of the ASHE PDC Summit on June 2-4. We invite you to check out our booth in the virtual exhibit hall and chat with us!

Part of being a successful health care planning, design or construction professional is maintaining a good grasp on what is going on in the health care built environment. Events like the 2021 PDC Summit are essential to your professional education and development.


Our History with PDC Summit:

We have been supporters of the PDC Student Challenge in 2018 and 2019, sponsoring 4 graduate nursing students to participate in a hospital design challenge with teams of architecture, engineering, nurses and construction management students from across the nation. The nursing students contributed greatly by determining nurse staffing models, establishing nurse to patient ratios, calculating staffing budgets and engaging with students from other disciplines to establish workflow in a micro-hospital setting.

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We hope to help curate clinically focused programs and sessions in future years at PDC Summit!

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NIHD collaborates with clinicians, design professionals, academics and industry partners in the healthcare design process to shape the future of healthcare design.

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