With a 100% focus on health design, E4H understands the current forces that impact your business.
E4H’s processes support clients’ existing and future service lines, with an understanding of competitiveness, system dynamics, and economics.
The E4H team designs for community hospitals, academic medical centers, life science laboratories, R&D spaces, children’s hospitals, mental health facilities, ambulatory care centers, rehabilitation facilities, assisted living, and medical office buildings, among others. E4H works collaboratively with clients to improve outcomes for patients and families.
Comprehensive and Fast: SmartDesign
E4H’s approach accelerates the design process with open channels of communications, clear responsibilities, and creative collaboration.
Planning
Master planning creates a comprehensive roadmap to achieve a client’s vision. This long-term strategy meets current needs while offering flexibility for the evolving healthcare landscape of tomorrow. Using evidenced-based design and work flow consulting, master planning identifies ways to improve the bottom line, not strain it. E4H has completed over 150 master plans for clients ranging from small community hospitals to 1,000-bed medical centers.
Architecture
E4H’s unique live-design approach encourages dialogue, fosters collaboration, and invests end-users in the process. The rapidly changing forces that affect healthcare organizations require flexible and LEAN design that can grow and change with shifting needs and increased budget demands. E4H’s process drives efficiency in time and budget, providing value to the client and speed to market.
Interior Design
An integrated interior design approach addresses the mission and culture of clients with innovative and thoughtful palettes that appeal to the senses. Longevity and functionality are based on an in-depth knowledge of healthcare operations, infection control, and sustainable materials. E4H also provides furniture & finish coordination for clients to create a turn-key experience.
Medical Real Estate
E4H assists developers, hospitals, physician’s practices, and medical research companies, with site selection, property assessment, real estate investment, long-term development strategies, and project financing. Select services the development team provides include: analysis of individual and group spaces, test-fits, leasing support, budget development, assistance with permit applications, lease and sale agreements, and overall guidance through financing, design, construction, and occupancy phases of project delivery.
Graphic Design, Wayfinding, & Virtual Reality
E4H’s in-house graphic design team integrates words, symbols, and images to enhance the delivery of information, ideas, and messages. Working closely with clients and designers, integrated wayfinding and graphics ensure ease of navigation, communication of culture, and safety for patients, visitors, and staff. Virtual Reality and stunning 3D renderings help translate design for a broad audience. E4H designers are able to support communicating your vision to boards, communities, investors, and users through engaging and immersive renderings and graphics.
Health Sciences
In addition to healthcare expertise, the E4H Health Sciences Team specializes in the design of complex laboratory and future-forward spaces where innovation can thrive. E4H believes in the art of creating environments that inspire users to discover next generation technologies which enhance the human experience and positively effect our world.
Advisory Services
E4H Advisory Services works collaboratively with clients, bringing a diverse team of experts to the table to develop, refine, and implement effective solutions that advance clients toward their business goals while increasing patient/staff satisfaction. The team aims to help organizations evolve with the ever-changing healthcare industry. Advisory Services include masterplanning, clinical operations advisement, medical equipment consulting, transition planning, licensing & certification assistance, and accreditation preparation.