As priorities and budgets change over time, a hospital or healthcare system must develop its facilities incrementally and dynamically, following a plan that supports the organization into the foreseeable future. With proven expertise in facility planning, Noblis professionals assist clients to make informed, confident decisions about immediate, short-term, and long-term investments in their physical plant and equipment.

Our professionals incorporate a two-pronged approach to facility planning: As strategists, we align facilities with strategic goals and needs, set facility priorities, and design facilities that are right-sized and appropriately located. As clinical service planners, we integrate process innovation into the planned operational concept for new facilities.

Facility Planning Services Include:

Master Facility Planning

• Enterprise-wide and service line specific
• Regional network development
• Scenario capital planning

Concept of Operations Planning

• Enterprise-wide and service line specific
• Planning and implementation in concert with performance innovation

Functional Planning and Space Programming

• Functional planning
• Space programming

Special Studies

• Capacity and throughput analysis
• Second opinion consultation
• Functional facility assessments
• Information technology assessments

Our iterative planning process ensures the facility plan is continually relevant; supports immediate, short-term, and long-term goals; and incorporates innovative concepts focused on flexibility, efficiency, standardization, patient safety, staff retention, and evidence-based outcomes.

If you have a facility planning need, we will provide you with a team of experts who listen and work with you to develop innovations of lasting value. Noblis team members have expertise in architecture, industrial engineering, finance, hospital administration, healthcare planning, and clinical operations. This multidisciplinary strength helps you develop plans that serve your best interests—and those of your patients.

If you would like information regarding our services, please contact one of our practice professionals (see contact information to the right), or our national  headquarters at 703-610-1500 or 866-882-9007 or you can e-mail us at HealthInnovation@noblis.org.