Every healthcare renovation faces the same opening question: what does the existing building actually look like, and how confident can the design team be in those conditions before the construction documents go out for permit and pricing? The answer used to come from field measurements, marked-up record drawings, and a healthy contingency to absorb the […]
A risk register on a generic commercial project covers schedule, budget, quality, safety, and weather. Apply that same five-category register to a healthcare project and the most consequential risks never make the list. Infection control failures, regulatory missteps that delay licensing, equipment selections that drive infrastructure rework, clinical workflow miscalibrations, operational continuity threats in occupied […]
The most expensive way to open a new clinic is to flip the schedule open at full volume on day one. The most reliable way to open a clinic is to start with controlled volume, measure aggressively against a defined set of KPIs, and ramp deliberately as the facility, the team, and the systems prove […]
An ambulatory surgery center cannot bill Medicare without certification, and certification can come through two paths: a state survey conducted directly by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services or its state agency, or accreditation through a CMS-approved accrediting organization that confers what is commonly called deemed status. For most physician-owned ASCs and group practices […]
On most healthcare projects, the schedule does not fail because construction ran long. It fails because a single piece of medical equipment did not arrive when the design assumed it would. An MRI committed late, a linear accelerator with a longer-than-expected build slot, a sterilizer waiting on a backordered control board — any of these […]
The turnover package has been delivered. The keys have changed hands. The certificate of occupancy is posted, and the licensing inspection is behind you. For most healthcare construction projects, this is where the project team’s involvement ends — and where the real cost of an inadequately managed operational transition begins to accumulate. The first twelve […]
A healthcare facility project can look attractive at the letter-of-intent stage and still become a poor investment once the real site conditions come into focus. That is why healthcare site selection is more than a real estate search. It is a risk-screening process that helps healthcare owners determine whether a site can actually support the […]
A healthcare project can look viable in concept and still become financially or operationally unstable once the real conditions emerge. That is why a medical facility feasibility study matters before a healthcare owner commits meaningful capital. It is the step that tests whether a project can work in the real world, not just on paper. […]
