Aligning Strategy with Facility Design
Consulting Division, WHR Architects, Inc.

WHR’s planning approach aligns facility design with client strategic initiatives.

Partnering clinical and operational strategies with design provides synergy in capturing the organization’s vision and contributes to quality and process improvement initiatives. Detailing the project scope, budget, and schedule assists in determining alignment with the strategic, financial, and facility planning cycles. WHR recognizes the importance of planning for timing and financial investment in the implementation or renovation of services/facility spaces.

Strategic initiatives within market context are studied to assess current capacity and future facility growth opportunities. Increasing demand coupled with declining reimbursement and a shrinking work force require fundamental redesign to provide optimum care. We work collaboratively to provide creative design solutions to meet patient expectations as well as operational and clinical challenges impacting day-to-day delivery of services.

WHR’s distinctive approach utilizes a knowledge-seeking framework to establish effective process methodologies that will assist in the prevention of potential problems in design prior to implementation. This information, in collaboration with project goals, develops a unique prioritization of the design issues requiring an architectural planning and design response.

It is our goal to assist in defining an organization’s space in a way that enables the strategy and allows the business model to thrive.