Healthcare

Understanding your healthcare facilities and maximizing your real estate’s value
Lower everyday costs. Improve profitability. Reduce development and operational risk. Maximize patient care. Attract and retain top talent. Healthcare facilities are key components in helping hospitals address a multitude of challenges when striving for success.

Real estate represents a large percentage of your capital and operational expenses, and our healthcare experts work to maximize the value of your facilities. We can help you access capital through your real estate assets, function as your owner’s representative in managing capital projects on-time and on-budget, and/or manage the ongoing performance of your facilities in a cost efficient and effective manner.

Strategically positioning your real estate is an important component of your business as a healthcare provider and we can help. We will show you how to optimize and leverage your facilities to improve overall profitability, reduce risk and attract top talent so you can focus on patient care.

With facility operational costs representing nearly 60 percent of a healthcare provider’s expenses, there is real opportunity to improve an organization’s bottom line while supporting its core focus: patient care. Whether you represent a hospital, medical practice, ambulatory care facility or an academic medical center, Universal Group’s experts offer strategic solutions for your real estate to ultimately enhance the patient experience.

We offer solutions in:

• Program Management

We offer development, expansion, and management for healthcare facilities ranging from medical office buildings, ambulatory care centers and specialized outpatient treatment centers, to new hospital complexes. We can assemble teams experienced in your precise needs from the largest, most versatile pool of in-house program managers in the world.

• Capital Markets

We offer real estate capitalization or transaction assistance. Our healthcare finance experts specialize in creative solutions for buying and selling properties, monetizing assests and assuring that as your operations change, you can reap maximum value from unused existing space. We are also veterans in at-risk development, structuring complex collaborations with a variety of potential partners to meet the objectives of all parties.

• Facility Management

We offer physical portfolio analysis and strategic planning to help align your real estate goals with your organization’s service and financial objectives. Working with key stakeholders such as physicians, patients and community leaders, our consulting team will help identify opportunities within your portfolio to lower annual operating run rates, ensure regulatory compliance and construct Six Sigma-driven processes to realize your facilities long-term success.

• Capital Asset Strategy

We offer strategic facility planning, functional and operational planning, and related investment analysis with a special emphasis on improving an organization’s cost of occupancy through facility solutions

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