Healthcare continues to move beyond the four walls—and multiple floors—of a hospital. Reasons for the “outpatient migration” to ambulatory care sites, other nontraditional locales and even into the home flow from personalization in care, cost savings, socioeconomic factors and lifestyle changes, all keyed to the goal of determining optimum treatment.

The Business Journal’s Sherry Hsieh asked OC healthcare executives to weigh in on the hospital of tomorrow, how such facilities will connect with their communities, and what their organizations are doing to move toward that future.