Mark Furgeson

Prior to joining Ankura, Mark served as the director of design for one of the largest healthcare systems in the U.S. as well as a 20-year career leading a forward-thinking healthcare consulting and design firm. He has shepherded capital projects from small rural to large for-profit and not-for-profit healthcare systems, served as an expert witness, and led board retreats on healthcare strategy, planning, and implementation. Mark is a frequent speaker and lecturer on the future of healthcare and policy-shaped healthcare real estate investment.

Mark’s professional experience includes:

• Strategic development and capital prioritization for several multicampus healthcare systems in numerous geographic locations across the U.S.
• Project execution for several large capital execution plans to assure that investments in physical footprints align with strategic priorities and board-level capital approval at multiple systems.
• Strategic analytics and master planning for various service lines at a for-profit healthcare system in Florida and Texas.
• Disease mapping analytics, market projections, and ambulatory strategy for a community-based hospital that is part of a large healthcare system in the western U.S.
• Comprehensive ambulatory strategy, resulting in a distributed care model and 10 new medical office building/ambulatory sites. Served as the owners’ representative for developer-executed buildings, and the designer for hospital-owned buildings.
• Strategic planning, design, and implementation (design-build) of an affiliated ambulatory campus in Arizona.
• Executive planner shepherding the strategic facilities master planning of 18 acute care campuses and dozens of ambulatory sites for a large not-for-profit health system. Included in this role was the design and implementation of several multiphase capital projects. Advisory included budget development and capital prioritization, as well as market triggers and pivot strategies.
• Implemented system-wide design, engineering, and construction standards for the nation’s largest not-for-profit faith-based healthcare system, as well as ambulatory prototypes for modular and market-driven strategic development.
• Teaching: Where Health Policy Meets Design. Primary visiting lecturer 2013-2020. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.