Healthcare Real Estate Development

Proven Partner in Healthcare Real Estate Development

Hammes’ approach to healthcare real estate development is informed by more than three decades of experience and perspective as a healthcare real estate developer and long-term owner. Hammes has been recognized by Modern Healthcare’s Construction & Design Survey as one of the nation’s top two healthcare development firms for 28 consecutive years, including 22 years ranked as No. 1 and was ranked as the nation’s No. 1 outpatient healthcare developer in the 2026 Outpatient Real Estate Development Report.¹

Healthcare Real Estate Development Aligned with Strategy

Hammes, together with its affiliates, develops healthcare facilities that are designed to support providers’ mission, market strategy, capital plan, and long-term operating needs.

As a healthcare real estate developer, Hammes brings integrated expertise in network strategy, master planning, project feasibility, project management, development, and investment structuring. This integrated approach supports the evaluation of each project not only as a singular healthcare facility, but as a strategic asset for the provider, the market, and the investment.

Hammes supports healthcare development projects spanning a wide range of sizes, settings, and ownership structures, including ambulatory campuses, outpatient facilities, medical office buildings, specialty care facilities, and other provider-aligned real estate assets.

Project feasibility and early development strategy

Site selection, due diligence, entitlements, and site planning

Service-line financial pro formas and ambulatory business planning

Master planning, facility planning, programming, and budget development

Real estate feasibility, including lease-versus-own analysis and physician alignment

Development execution, project management, and stakeholder coordination

Investment capital through Hammes Partners, the firm’s affiliated investment platform

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Healthcare Development Senior Leadership

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Representative Projects

Our Healthcare Development Work

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Medical Office Building

Beaufort Memorial Okatie Medical Pavilion

Beaufort Memorial selected Hammes to develop its new 70,000-SF medical office building in Okatie, near Hilton Head, South Carolina.

Ambulatory Care Center

Healing Arts Pavilion

Hammes developed the 30,000-SF Healing Arts Pavilion, which expanded geriatric services in this Southwest Chicago suburb.

Ambulatory Care Center, Medical Office Building, Replacement Hospital

Endeavor Health Elmhurst Hospital

Hammes delivered master planning, PM, development, and property management for Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare — including an 866,000 SF replacement hospital and two MOBs.

Medical Office Building

Children’s Wisconsin Kenosha Clinic

Hammes developed the 33,000-SF Children’s Wisconsin Kenosha Clinic, which provides enhanced access to multiple pediatric specialties from a single, convenient location.

Medical Office Building, Greenfield Hospital

St. Luke’s Health - The Vintage Hospital

Hammes was engaged in the strategic planning and development of St. Luke’s - The Vintage in Houston, a 106-bed hospital and attached medical office building that was completed under budget and six months ahead of schedule.

Ambulatory Care Center, Medical Office Building

Ascension Saint Joseph - Chicago

Hammes served as developer and owner of the 345,000 SF Ascension St. Joseph Outpatient Pavilion in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood.

1. No compensation was paid by Hammes to participate in, be considered for, or receive these rankings.

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Frequently Asked Healthcare Development Questions

Here are answers to common questions about our healthcare development services.

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Who is Hammes?

Modern Healthcare’s Construction & Design Survey ranks development firms by the dollar volume of healthcare construction projects completed in the prior year. The Outpatient Real Estate Development Report ranks outpatient development activity by total square footage of projects that started or completed construction in the prior year.

What does Hammes do as a healthcare development partner?

As an at-risk, full-service developer, Hammes helps healthcare providers plan, structure, develop, and deliver real estate projects that support organizational strategy, patient access, service-line growth, and long-term facility performance.

Does Hammes provide capital for healthcare development?

Yes. Hammes’ affiliated real estate investment platform, Hammes Partners, invests in healthcare real estate and supports healthcare providers’ strategic initiatives, including the development of new healthcare facilities and the monetization of existing assets.

What makes Hammes different from a traditional developer?

The Hammes platform is truly unique in the full spectrum of specialized healthcare real estate services we offer. Healthcare providers benefit from our comprehensive understanding of the entire real estate development process, spanning strategy and planning, financing, project management, leasing and property management.

Additionally, Hammes’ focus on healthcare allows us to understand the unique challenges, permitting and regulatory issues, and other nuances unique to the development of medical office buildings, ambulatory surgery centers, and other healthcare real estate.

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