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Healthy Growth: Hill Capitalizes on
the U.S. Midwest Healthcare Sector
Mr. Cooper, Ms. Sraver, Ms. Shearer, and other Hill and the local markets, conditions, and
healthcare experts across the Midwest work with circumstances. In addition to Adrienne
facility managers, architects, and engineers to verify and Therese, we have Adam Novak
designs put patients first. Bringing the latest trends in at OhioHealth, and Donald Burnau
healthcare finishes, fixtures, and equipment, as well at Trinity, just to name a few. With
as the lead times and installation and maintenance project managers of this caliber, who
challenges for the cutting-edge HVAC and air filtration know the communities and clients
systems hospitals and other healthcare facilities we serve first-hand, we can help the
require, Hill’s expertise helps ensure any healthcare healthcare industry realize its growth
project is planned and delivered with the patient in successfully.”
mind. Mr. Cooper continues, “Columbus is
“The move to decentralized facilities is perhaps, from different than Detroit, and a suburban
an economic standpoint, our biggest driver,” says Mr. outpatient facility in Shaker Heights
Cooper. “Today’s [patient] experience often involves is different than a hospital addition in
specialized, targeted facilities rather than an all- downtown Cleveland. But our teams
encompassing single hospital. Surgical suites, urgent know the opportunities each of these
care, testing and diagnostics, and other services that projects bring, and how to manage
used to be exclusively provided in hospitals are now them safely, on-time, and within
offered at smaller facilities. This provides patients with budget.”
more choices and a greater range of services. However, The healthcare sector both in the
these decentralized facilities present their own set of Midwest and across the U.S. is certain
risks for owners.” to continue to grow, and Hill is well-
Explains Ms. Shearer, “Hill can provide a total program, positioned to benefit from this growth
project, and construction management approach with a combination of local talent and
for our clients’ decentralized facilities, whether for a global sector best practices.
single urgent care location or for an entire portfolio of “It’s exciting,” says Ms. Sraver. “And it’s
satellite facilities. The benefit to our clients, and their important. We’re helping people get,
patients, is a tailored approach specific to the drivers and stay, healthy. It’s hard to think of a
of each project, from implementing best practices kind of project that matters more.”
across a dozen suburban locations or inspecting and
commissioning a single surgical suite in a medical
office building.”
Mr. Cooper agrees, explaining that Hill’s teams are what
make the region’s healthcare projects so successful.
“We’ve built up a group of professionals who
understand both the sector’s nuances and constraints
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