With eight hospitals and numerous outpatient facilities, Penn Medicine cares for patients from central Pennsylvania to central New Jersey. After adding several regional hospitals to the system in the last few years and opening the state-of-the-art, 500-bed Pavilion on the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania’s (HUP) campus in 2021, Penn Medicine contemplated what came next.

Starting with two of the city center campuses and continuing engagements with network hospitals, The Innova Group facilitated strategic campus planning studies that look at the highest and best use for each building and site. Areas of focus include:

• Strategic re-use of HUP’s existing, 1.9 million SF, west campus buildings
• Renewal and growth on the Penn Presbyterian Medical Center (PPMC), Penn Lancaster General Health, and Penn Medicine Princeton campuses
• Comparison and analysis of care distribution for the three downtown campuses

Key issues that required evaluation and direction included volume and capacity targets, patient cohorting, campus operational improvement opportunities, offsite opportunities, high-value vs low-value buildings, and priority re-investment planning.

The Innova Team worked with Penn Medicine leadership through interactive work sessions to develop guiding principles, planning targets, and development scenarios. Examples of planning efforts showed how:

• HUP can move to all private beds post-Pavilion opening, strategically renovate older buildings, support key programs, and meet the 2032 projected need
• PPMC can strategically invest in their next development zone to showcase marquis services, meet future demand, improve patient access and experience, and begin to decant and renew outdated facilities