About
Our Services
Life at Hammes
HomeOur WorkNews & InsightsFor Investors
Search
Our Services
Life at Hammes
In today’s rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, informed capital investment decisions require more than a project concept. Whether a health system is assessing new market entry, expanding or renovating existing facilities, or optimizing real estate assets, Hammes helps healthcare providers evaluate feasibility through a strategic, data-driven process grounded in market realities, financial stewardship, and implementation needs.
Through Hammes Advisory Services, our team connects market assessments, facility programming, financial forecasting, and real estate evaluation so healthcare executives can understand what to pursue, what to defer, and what needs to be validated before capital is committed.
Before design or development advances, healthcare executives need to understand whether a proposed capital project is supported by the market, aligned with service-line and physician strategy, and realistic within the organization’s capital priorities.
Hammes brings market, facility, financial, and implementation considerations into one feasibility view, helping healthcare leaders understand whether a proposed capital project should advance, change, pause, or be phased differently.
This work is especially important when organizations are considering new market entry, facility expansion or renovation, ambulatory network investments, medical office buildings, specialty care facilities, or portfolio decisions that may affect capital allocation across the system.
Hammes approaches feasibility planning as an input to capital decisions, not as a stand-alone study. The deliverable should be useful to leadership after the engagement ends: a practical reference for capital planning, board discussion, budget alignment, phasing, and the next stage of implementation.
Feasibility summary and recommended path forward
Market and competitor findings
Service-line and physician strategy findings
Preliminary facility program or space needs
Real estate and site criteria, constraints, and options
Financial pro forma, phasing, and risk considerations
Implementation roadmap with next decisions
Once the project concept, market context, and facility alternatives are in view, feasibility work can help leadership clarify questions such as:
Which project option best supports service-line, physician, access, and market strategy?
Should the organization build new, renovate, expand, lease, acquire, consolidate, or defer?
What facility program, site conditions, and operational requirements should shape scope?
What total project cost, schedule, phasing, and capital assumptions should leadership evaluate?
What regulatory, entitlement, infrastructure, and stakeholder considerations could affect viability?
What approvals and next-step decisions are needed before design, development, or board action?
These representative engagements show how Hammes helps healthcare organizations connect early planning decisions to market strategy, facility direction, portfolio performance, and implementation.
Health systems evaluating new market entry, facility expansion, renovation, campus investment, or real estate optimization can contact Hammes Advisory Services to discuss the decision, constraints, and next steps.
Here are answers to common questions about our capital planning and feasibility consulting services.
Let's discuss your project and how we can help drive success for your healthcare system.
Capital project planning and feasibility is the process of evaluating whether a proposed healthcare facility investment should move forward and how it should be scoped, funded, phased, and implemented. For healthcare providers, this work typically includes market demand, service-line strategy, physician alignment, facility program, site conditions, budget, schedule, regulatory considerations, and financial feasibility.
A health system should conduct feasibility planning before board approval, site commitment, design launch, land acquisition, major renovation, replacement hospital planning, ambulatory expansion, or systemwide capital allocation. Early feasibility work helps leadership test assumptions before significant cost, schedule, and stakeholder commitments are made.
Hammes evaluates the market, service-line strategy, physician alignment, facility program, site conditions, real estate options, total project cost, phasing, regulatory considerations, financial assumptions, and implementation requirements that shape capital project viability.
A feasibility deliverable should help leadership make decisions. It should clarify the recommended path forward, the assumptions behind that recommendation, the capital and operational implications, the risks to address, and the next steps required before design, development, or board action.
Yes. Hammes can support the next phase through advisory services, healthcare development, owner’s representation, program and project management, operational readiness, transition planning, and related real estate services, depending on the project’s needs and the organization’s preferred delivery model.
