Project Planning

Our planning process established the project’s foundational steps guided by the outcomes you want to achieve to ensure an actionable and achievable project.

Our early involvement during the planning phase gives us the ability to manage the dynamics between leadership and the project team laying the groundwork for a collaborative and highly productive project management process addressing:

• Project Definition
  • Identification and Selection of Core Project Team
  • Program Verification
  • Space Needs definition
  • Project Delivery Process Selection
  • Preliminary Project Schedule
• Functional & Operational Planning
  • Care Delivery Model Definition
  • Functional Space Programming
• Concept Development
  • Site Investigation, Selection and Acquisition
  • Conceptual Site Planning Design
  • Conceptual Cost Estimates
• Due Diligence
  • Regulatory Compliance
  • Land Entitlement Process Determination

 
Strategic Facility Planning

Design

MedCraft brings a holistic perspective to the management of the design process. Leveraging our interdisciplinary experience, we provide the expertise and decision-making tools needed to objectively evaluate and integrate  an outcomes driven design process. Through our facilitation of design meetings:

• We manage the expectations of physicians, hospital administrations and other stakeholders.
• Use our experience and in-depth knowledge of healthcare facility development to help achieve cost-effective, functional, and operationally efficient design.
• Incorporate best practice and evidence-based design ideas, LEAN and LEED concepts, and latest FGI Guidelines.
• Apply our unique planning tools for data-based decision making. 

Construction

Our project managers are experts at facilitating the construction process while keeping our clients’ best interests in mind.  They lead the team and provide timely decisions and issue resolution.

The key to our successful leadership is a proactive not reactive approach that allows us to identify risks and challenges early and then mitigate those risks to ensure the project goals are successfully met.  The MedCraft team takes responsibility for:

• Leading the selection of qualified partners and team members
• Managing the budget and adherence to your project goals
• Managing the schedule adhering to critical milestones
• Maintaining continuous project oversight s so that quality standards and requirements are achieved
• Providing Infection Control Risk Assessment oversight
• Facilitating health board approvals and accreditation
• Establishing and achieving labor and supply goals
• Coordinating owner’s supplied furniture, fixtures and equipment
• Administering compliance with financing terms

Operational Activation

Our approach to the activation of a project starts early in the planning process to ensure that operational practices are fully aligned and supportive of future state environments.  MedCraft’s vast experience opening healthcare facilities provides our clients with the confidence that their transition into operation will be smooth, painless, and successful.  Our methods, attention to detail combined with learning and understanding your organizations culture, goals, and vision will allow us to work in conjunction with you and your staff to create a comprehensive plan to bring your project fully to life.  Our scope of service offerings include:

• Change management facilitation such as workflow, process changes and patient experience
• Training and space orientation planning
• Documenting move plans
• Managing the close out of contracts and contract requirements
• Obtaining regulatory approvals and certifications
• Coordinating owner’s supplied furniture, fixtures and equipment
• Scheduling cleaning and sterilization activities
• Facilitating post move-in change order control processes

Financing

There are a variety of financing instruments and strategies that are available to fund healthcare facility projects.   Our team is available to help our clients identify, evaluate, and implement financing plans that best position them for long-term success.  Whether preserving capital, maintaining a specific credit rating, or evaluating alternative capital sources, our team can help design a financing strategy that best accomplishes your objectives and administer it during the development process.  Our expertise entails:

• Project Capitalization Analyses
• Project Budgeting
• Capital Sourcing
  • Traditional debt and equity financing
  • Government programs such as the USDA
  • Sale/leaseback models
  • Alternative tax-exempt products such as charitable foundations and hybrid lease structures
• Joint Ventures
• Lenders Representation
• Loan Payment Administration

Specialty Services

Knowing that our clients have varying project management needs, we provide our core services along with several unique, specialty services on an ala cart basis so that they can apply our expertise where it’s needed most including:

• Planning & Feasibility Analysis
• Project Budget Management
• Workflow Analysis
• Project Assessments
• Facilities Management Assessments
• Project Capitalization Strategies
• USDA Financing
• Site Selection & Acquisition
• Crisis Project Management Services
• Lenders Representation