Rashmi Karoliina Werning
Expert in Healthcare Process Development and Hospital Planning
Rashmi Werning is a highly respected expert in healthcare process development and hospital planning with over 15 years of experience in consulting roles. She holds a Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from Clausthal University of Technology and has built a strong professional profile at the intersection of healthcare operations, facility design, and strategic change management.
For the past 15 years, Rashmi has led large and complex hospital development and investment projects. Her mission is to ensure that these projects are carried out as holistic change management initiatives, improving outcomes for patients, employees and the entire healthcare ecosystem. She approaches every project with an integrated perspective—combining spatial planning, operational goals and user‑centric design to create healthcare facilities that are functional, efficient and future‑ready. She is particularly passionate about positioning major hospital investments as bs.road transformation programmes, recognizing their far‑reaching impact across healthcare system.
Contact
rashmi.werning@visiorapartners.com
+358 50 327 7963
Education
M.Sc. (Tech.) in Industrial Engineering and Management
Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
Core Competencies
- Healthcare operations development based on Lean methodologies
- Project and program management in complex healthcare environments
- Productivity improvement and operational performance analysis
- Simulation and forecasting of healthcare unit capacity and demand
- Patient and material flow analysis and optimisation
- Development of functional operating models for clinical and support service environments
Expertise in Hospital and Facility Planning
- Extensive experience in designing and developing concepts for healthcare facilities
- Strong ability to integrate strategic spatial planning, operational goals, and user‑centric design
- Trusted specialist for reviewing early‑phase planning alternatives and supporting strategic decision‑making
- Valued by both clinical professionals and real estate developers for her deep understanding of hospital functionality and operational requirements
Leadership and Stakeholder Management
- Skilled in leading large, time‑sensitive development and investment projects
- Experienced in working with diverse stakeholder groups, including healthcare professionals, executives, planners, and property developers
- Frequently invited to speak at seminars and training events on healthcare facility design and operational development
Professional Mission
Rashmi’s overarching mission is to ensure that hospital development and investment projects are understood and executed as comprehensive change management efforts. Such projects influence hundreds of thousands of patients, thousands of professionals and multiple other stakeholders—requiring holistic leadership that unites operational development, facility design and strategic goals.
References
- Productivity potential and improving productivity in major healthcare facility investments: Conducted across several large hospital development projects, involving the analysis of hundreds of clinical and support service process improvement opportunities. The work has included examining care pathway redesign, changes in task distribution and operational organisation, opportunities for automation, and development needs related to ICT solutions. The analyses have supported hospital campus planning, service process development, and the specification of new digital solutions. In one project, approximately 300 concrete actions were identified to achieve significant productivity improvements, and a long‑term monitoring tool was developed to track the realisation of productivity potential over time.
- Strategic Service Network Planning for wellbeing services counties: Examined short‑ and long‑term changes in service environments and alternative development scenarios for service networks, taking into account demographic trends, population density, service demand and required service accessibility. As part of these service network assessments, future roadmaps have been created to guide network‑level actions in line with strategic objectives, grounded in emerging service delivery models and the need to improve operational efficiency.
- Segmentation of inpatient service needs and target care pathway design: Conducted for wellbeing services counties to support the development of functional hospital structures, staff onboarding, and capacity planning for patient hotels. The results have also been used in defining the appropriate level of care between primary and specialised healthcare, especially in regions where responsibility for organising services is shared between different entities.
Speaches and publications
- FUTURE HOSPITAL CONFERENCE 2022, 2023 and 2024 Helsinki, co-host
- EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON HEALTHCARE ENGINEERING 2023 Paris, speaker
- MANAGEMENT FORUM STARNBERG: FUTURE HOSPITAL CONFERENCE Hamburg 2022, Tübigen 2023 and Vienna 2023 speaker, PSYCHIATRIC FACILITIES München 2023 speaker
- FUTURE HOSPITAL CONFERENCE 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2018 speaker
- PSYCHIATRIC FACILITIES 2022 speaker
- FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH 2019 and 2020 speaker
- FINNISH ASSOCIATION OF HOSPITAL ENGINEERS 2017 speaker
- CO-AUTHOR: 2023, Laakkonen N., Werning R., Paju V: Framework of Capacity Dimensioning Principles in Hospital Planning
- CO-AUTHOR ARCH 14 PUBLICATION: Paju, V. S., Ketola, E., Kariniemi-Örmälä, K., Halonen, J., & Werning, R. (2014). Using simulation in various stages of hospital planning. International Conference on Research on Health Care Architecture