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“We have always maintained a focus on our culture—a culture defined by mutual respect, trust, teamwork and doing what’s right.”
— Jon Hammes
As a people-driven business, it is truly our people that set us apart. Hammes is committed to a culture of mutual respect and excellence where team members are valued and hold themselves and each other to the highest levels of integrity and accountability.
At Hammes, we are uncompromising in our values and committed to doing what’s right. We believe this allows us to attract exceptional talent and deliver consistent results for our clients. As a Hammes employee, you will experience:
Being part of a collaborative team of talented individuals who possess exceptional credentials
A company that continues to grow and allows you to grow with us through unique opportunities
The opportunity to develop experience in multiple disciplines related to real estate development and investment
A company that recognizes professional experience required to lead healthcare strategy, development, investment, asset management, portfolio management, investor relations, fundraising and major capital programs
The chance to learn from and assist those who are leaders within the industry
Hammes is proud to have been recognized by Modern Healthcare as one of the Best Places to Work in Healthcare for multiple years. This national recognition reflects our ongoing commitment to fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and professional growth. The annual program honors outstanding employers across the healthcare industry through a rigorous assessment process that includes extensive employee feedback, making this distinction especially meaningful to our team.
Employee engagement, satisfaction, and retention are a top priority for Hammes. We foster personal and professional growth within a close, supportive environment. We provide a robust set of benefits and career development opportunities and seek to engage our employees through regular communication and activities that promote team building and a healthy, collaborative work environment.
Hammes supports local communities where employees live and work. Our teams have supported United Way and other organizations through cleanup and restoration efforts, food donations and initiatives designed to broaden participation in commercial real estate.
Hammes is committed to making a positive impact on the healthcare industry and the future of healthcare real estate. Hammes team members regularly participate in industry conferences, speaking engagements, and professional forums where healthcare leaders, real estate professionals, consultants, developers, and members of the architecture, engineering and construction community come together to exchange ideas and explore the future of healthcare environments.
Hammes also recognizes the importance of campus engagement and early career development. Through partnerships with leading colleges and universities, we share career and industry experience with students while building connections with future talent interested in healthcare real estate, development, project management, property management, and other related career paths.
Our involvement with students, universities and industry organizations reflects our commitment to leadership, learning and long-term talent development.
We believe diverse teams are stronger teams. Hammes seeks varied backgrounds, skill sets and perspectives in employees and partners, and values relationships with women-, minority- and veteran-owned businesses across our work.
Healthcare projects are ultimately about people, not just buildings. As an owner's representative, it's incredibly rewarding to bring diverse teams together to navigate complex challenges and help transform an owner's vision into a facility that serves patients, caregivers, and communities for generations. Being the trusted partner who aligns people around a common purpose is what makes this work so meaningful.
Over my 20+ years of professional experience, Hammes has been the most rewarding organization I've had the privilege of working for. What sets it apart are the people. I genuinely enjoy working alongside colleagues at every level, especially partnering with our senior leaders in a strategic way to help grow the business. It's an environment where I'm trusted, challenged, and empowered to make a meaningful impact.
Joining Hammes has given me the opportunity to apply my experience on one of the most complex healthcare projects of my career—a multi-phased expansion and renovation at a major Level I trauma center. The project has challenged me to think strategically and collaborate with exceptional teams while maintaining uninterrupted hospital operations. It’s incredibly rewarding to be part of an organization that entrusts its people with meaningful responsibilities to make a lasting impact on the communities they serve.
What I enjoy most about working at Hammes is that no two days or projects are exactly the same. My property management background helps me look at opportunities from a practical, day-to-day operations perspective, and I value being able to collaborate with different teams to solve problems and make thoughtful decisions.
If you want to be part of a dynamic and entrepreneurial environment, consider a career with Hammes.
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Hammes is a national real estate consulting, development, investment, and management firm founded in 1991 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, specializing in healthcare. Modern Healthcare has ranked Hammes the No. 1 Healthcare Developer in 22 of the last 28 years, and the 2026 Outpatient Real Estate Development Report named Hammes the No. 1 outpatient healthcare developer in the United States.
The firm operates through four entities under a single Hammes mark: Hammes Healthcare (healthcare consulting and project delivery, established 1993), Hammes Partners (institutional healthcare real estate investment, deploying capital since 2001), Hammes Realty Services (property management, leasing, and accounting), and Hammes Commercial (large-scale commercial, sports, and mixed-use real estate). Hammes was founded by Jon Hammes, who serves as Chairman; Patrick Hammes is Chief Executive Officer.
Hammes plans, develops, and manages healthcare real estate for U.S. health systems — and is best known for delivering complex hospital and ambulatory projects on schedule and within budget. Across 35 years, Hammes has delivered 200 new, replacement, renovated, or expanded hospital facilities and completed 488 medical office and ambulatory care center projects.
The firm's strongest capabilities span the full project lifecycle: real estate and market strategy (412 strategy and planning engagements completed), owner's representation and project management for major capital projects, operational readiness and activation for new facilities, and ground-up healthcare development. Representative outcomes include the Emory Johns Creek Hospital expansion, delivered under budget and on schedule, and Moffitt Cancer Center's McKinley Hospital in Tampa, opened 2024.
The Hammes Platform is the firm's vertically integrated model for healthcare real estate: strategy, planning, project delivery, development, investment, and property management under one mark. Health systems can engage Hammes at any point in the asset lifecycle — from a market strategy study to a replacement hospital to long-term ownership and management of the completed facility.
The platform is delivered through four operational entities — Hammes Healthcare, Hammes Partners, Hammes Realty Services, and Hammes Commercial — and is substantiated by scale: 94 million square feet of healthcare facilities developed or acquired, 1,100+ healthcare real estate engagements completed, and 17 national locations of healthcare real estate professionals.
Hammes works coast to coast across the United States, with 17 national locations staffed by healthcare real estate professionals. The firm is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and pairs national expertise with local market execution.
Representative work spans every U.S. region: the Northeast (Wynn Hospital, Utica, New York; Albert Einstein Medical Center Montgomery, Pennsylvania), the Southeast (Moffitt Cancer Center McKinley Hospital, Tampa; Emory Healthcare projects, Atlanta; Orlando Health Jewett Orthopedic Institute, Orlando), the Midwest (The MetroHealth Glick Center, Cleveland; Franklin County Crisis Care Center, Columbus; Children's Wisconsin Kenosha Clinic), the South (INTEGRIS Health Heart Hospital, Oklahoma City; CHI St. Luke's The Vintage, Houston), and the Mountain West (Logan Health Children's Hospital, Kalispell, Montana).
Representative Hammes healthcare projects include Moffitt Cancer Center's McKinley Hospital (Tampa, Florida — opened 2024), The MetroHealth Glick Center (Cleveland, Ohio — a 767,000-square-foot, 386-bed replacement hospital, opened 2022), and the Orlando Health Jewett Orthopedic Institute (Orlando, Florida — completed 2023).
Other named projects across the portfolio: INTEGRIS Heart Hospital and ICU Tower (Oklahoma City), Emory Johns Creek Hospital expansion (delivered under budget and on schedule), Emory Healthcare Musculoskeletal Institute (Atlanta), Wynn Hospital for Mohawk Valley Health System (Utica, New York — 702,000 square feet), USF Health Morsani College of Medicine and Heart Institute (Tampa — 395,000 square feet), FIU/Baptist Health South Florida Clinical Partnership Building (Miami), and the Franklin County Crisis Care Center (Columbus, Ohio — 72,000 square feet, behavioral health).
Each project is documented at hammes.com/our-work with client, location, project type, Hammes role, and project size.
