Healthcare Planning
Hospital planning specializes in facility developments (hospitals, clinics, medical schools, medical office buildings, retirement communities, mental health and ambulatory care centers). We are celebrating 10 years of service to the healthcare community (800 clients worldwide). Please browse through our work, consider HFRPD (Hart Freeland Roberts, Inc. Planning Department) for your campus planning needs, and share with us your thoughts, needs and expectations. We are large in experience but small in our attention to your needs!
We believe that hospital buildings, departmental layouts and staff work stations routinely impact the way our clients conduct their business on a daily basis. Our objective is to achieve the optimum in architectural planning and design. We also believe the hospital “campus” has a direct and formidable impact on patient care. The research conducted by James G. Easter, Jr., FAAMA, and Richard Carota, AAMA, (see articles and publications please) addresses the many facets of hospital planning, healthcare operations, building design and construction.
Quality planning requires a balance of management, design and technology. We work in partnership with the client’s architects and engineers to achieve the optimum results. Consider HFRPD for your hospital, email us with questions and comments, please.
Planning Mission
The HFR/HPD mission is to use creative space programming and campus master planning methods to improve the overall quality of hospitals and related healthcare facilities.
“Many of our traditional hospitals?will be replaced by smaller, community-based and?family-focused satellite facilities.”
Mergers, acquisitions, network developments and improved hospital information systems continue to offer both opportunities and challenges for healthcare providers. Ultimately, these improvements reflect improved accessibility, accountability and technologically advanced clinical services for the healthcare delivery team, the patient and the family. This industry-wide change in healthcare delivery is evident through recent pressures to convert to Critical Access Hospitals (CAH) and the growth in outpatient, short-stay, and ambulatory care programs. Automation is advancing rapidly in all areas. To fulfill our mission, our corporate goal is to create the most appropriate “quality” place for these activities to occur and to ensure the most cost effective operations are delivered over time.
Philosophy
As planning consultants we offer services that help promote the client’s goals, objectives, program expectations and service needs. As a pre-architecture consulting practice, we provide independent and objective solutions that are based solely on rational and justifiable needs. The added value to the client will include the development of the “right” building solution for those quantifiable needs with a clear road map for continued growth and expansion over time. We believe that an on-going investment in creative planning will benefit the client in a number of ways;
- Enhanced Staff Communications and Awareness of Spatial Impact
- Functional Improvements Gained Through Creative Space Planning
- Marketing of Services Through Improved Image and Atmosphere
- Cost Savings Through Improved Efficiency
- Better Internal Operations
- Overall Improved Wayfinding and Facility Circulation
- Improved Staff Recruitment Efforts
- Higher Retention Rates Over Time at All Professional Levels
- Better Treatment and Inpatient Care Results
- Healthier and Happier Patients Plus Family Members
- Enhanced Investment in Capital Assets
- Reduced Risks and Environmental Liabilities
- Enhanced Use of All Capital Assets
- An Effective Asset Management Decision Making Process
- A Logical Road Map for Capital Assets over Time
National and International Experience
Diverse International Experience
- Hospital Planning Engagements By Staff
(Experience With Over 800 Campus Developments Worldwide) - Academic & Allied Health Science Centers
(Experience on 12 university campuses in 7 states) - Women and Children’s Hospital Experience
(Experience With 12 Children’s Hospitals Worldwide and Over 125 OB/LDR/LDRP Related Studies) - Proprietary & Not-for-Profit Hospital Systems
(Working With The Catholic System/Baptist System/Adventist System/CHRISTUS/Mercy/US Gov) - Systems Related Ventures & Technical Assessments
(Architecture, Interiors, Equipment, Systems, Engineering) - Specialists & Leaders In Our Collective Fields
(26 Years Average Experience In "Focused" and Dedicated Areas) - Diversified, Innovative & Strategically Balanced
(Individually and Collectively Innovative With A Commitment To Applied Research) - Engagements Conducted in 42 States USA, Canada, Mexico, Egypt, and China
- Familiar With Trends, Standards and Community Networks Nationally
(Published Nationally With Over 100 Speaking Engagements by Staff) - Worked With Public, Private and Corporate Sector Clients Nationally
(Public Teaching Hospitals and State Facilities, Proprietary Hospitals, DOD, Veterans Affairs (VA) and Military Hospitals)
The HFR/HPD goal is to provide your hospital with objective pre-design campus master planning that works best for your patients, staff, physicians and community.
Master Healthcare Planning contact: Jim Easter, 615-370-8500