Over the past 20 years, Petra has delivered a wide array of creative solutions to visionary healthcare owners. Our concept of a trusted advisor drives a flexible service line designed to identify and fill gaps where we can add the most value. Our services include:
Strategic Planning
Petra’s management of system-wide capital and facilities has also enabled us to collaborate with healthcare leaders and owners to make decisions that lead to a more defined, informed future. Our Strategic Planning capability is an integrated process that combines strategic forecasting, financial analysis and facility planning into a more holistic approach in order to assess all aspects simultaneously.
Facility Master Planning
Petra’s front-end Facility Planning has evolved from the traditional linear sequential approach into a more robust parallel processing method. Our Integrated Planning Platform combines our core competencies of facility planning and capital cost estimating and forecasting with clinical strategy, financial analysis, operations assessment, and consumer/cultural ethnographic research to drive more cost-effective design planning and project phasing.
Capital Planning & Scope Management
Petra has extensive experience managing the system-wide capital spend for clients that covers multiple hospitals and spans several states. Our unique method of capital management empowers healthcare owners with greater visibility, predictability, understanding and control of project scope and spending on projects at an enterprise-wide level.
Project Management
From our origins as a centralized in-house design and construction department within a health system, project management has been a focal point of expertise for Petra. Through carefully streamlining processes, managing scope, building solid teams and evaluating projects from a post-occupancy perspective, we continue to deliver healthcare projects on time and at a modest average of approximately 3% under budget.
Project Management is a service that applies effective management techniques to the planning, design and construction of a project from inception to completion for the purpose of controlling time, cost and quality. Our creative approach to project management provides the following advantages:
- Alternative design solutions based on accurate costs
- Maintainable budgets and schedules early in design
- Competitive bidding by reputable construction entities.
Depending on your needs, Petra team members may be on site full time or occasionally as needed. Functioning as the executive point of contact for construction on campus, the on-site directors also benefit from immediate access to the expertise of the central Petra business units.
Specialty Support Services
Petra’s diverse talents and skillsets, as well as our integrated approach, help identify potential roadblocks and create better solutions for increased control and predictability of project outcomes. Our Specialty Support Services are outlined below.
Petra’s centralized team of interior designers and technicians develops and oversees the interior design planning for hospital sites and physicians’ offices. The team is responsible for space planning and renovation coordination with leadership at all client campuses and assists the architectural teams in the development of space plans focused on operational efficiency. Additionally, the Interior Design unit maintains hospital environmental and interiors standards for clinical and office space, and provide standards oversight during the design and construction phases of related projects.
Through early programming and user input facilitation, the Medical Equipment Planning team develops project scope and an equipment list. The process includes continuous review to reflect current technologies and operational considerations while remaining true to the established scope and program. New technologies are investigated to determine risks and benefits, life cycles, and market impacts before being included in the design. As construction progresses, Petra coordinates with contractors to ensure spaces are appropriately provided with the necessary infrastructure, and the Petra-led equipment bid process ensures compliance with GPO contracts and other purchasing agreements to obtain best pricing. The unit coordinates receipt, storage, delivery and installation of all equipment, as well as complete vendor coordination from start to finish.
Petra’s Infrastructure Planning unit provides design development, budgets, and building infrastructure planning for IT and low-voltage systems. Participation from project architects and engineers assures successful guidance in the design of communications infrastructure during early phases of building design. Planning includes the assessment of outside communication plants for integration of existing and newly developed property.
Petra’s Engineering & Energy unit develops and implements physical plant policies and protocols related to equipment selection, purchase and operation. Additionally, the unit is responsible for negotiation and contract implementation of deregulated utilities at hospitals. Engineering & Energy is responsible for evaluating the effectiveness of energy-saving programs and products. As an added service, Petra provides on-site support to hospital engineering departments as requested to manage departments during transition periods or individual projects.
From centralizing construction documents and master floor plans to providing corporate and site Finance teams with necessary bond compliance and square footage allocation study data, Petra provides each client with an efficient archiving process managed efficiently by a single point of support.