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Metis Advisory Group, Ltd. was established
in 1984 as a specialized health care facility programming
and planning consulting firm. The firm was founded with the
philosophy that it is possible to combine technical excellence
in specialized facility planning with an uncompromising commitment
to the client’s business objectives. Over the past nearly
twenty years, the three principals at Metis have developed
a national and international practice with a core staff of
eight junior and senior consultants and is therefore one of
the largest independent firms in the United States wholly
dedicated to health care facilities programming and planning.
Metis Advisory Group, Ltd. has performed
facilities programming and planning services for healthcare
projects with construction costs of over $2 billion. Clients
range from rural community hospitals to urban academic medical
centers, single-facility hospitals to multi-campus systems,
and physicians’ office practices to comprehensive ambulatory
diagnostic and treatment centers. Recent engagements have
focused on planning for institutional mergers, restructuring
for patient-centered care, and repositioning for managed care.
The principals and senior consultants at
Metis all have professional training in business, health care
management and health care architecture combined with previous
work experience for providers. They regularly make presentations
at national and international professional society meetings
and publish articles in professional journals and manuals
dedicated to health care management and facilities planning.
The firm sponsors professional development through the voluntary
contribution of principal time to graduate level teaching
in health administration, leadership roles in professional
organizations, as well as employee attendance at professional
society meetings.
Excellence in health care facility planning
is achieved through the combined application of technical
expertise in architectural programming and project definition
and on-the-job experience in the organization and running
of projects. Successful projects are the product of achieving
a creative balance in responding to the many clinical and
business management considerations placed upon the allocation
of space.
We approach each client engagement proactively
by taking a leading role in organizing both the process for
our scope of work and the analytical framework for decision
making. Our programming and planning recommendations derive
from a rigorous analysis of all pertinent data that is the
foundation for a thorough and insightful assessment of the
key issues and challenges facing our clients. Where needed,
we use advanced computer simulation modeling to test alternative
workflow designs.
The firm’s staff has memberships in
the American College of Health Care Executives, the American
Institute of Architects, Academy of Healthcare Design, the
American Society of Hospital Engineers (a division of the
American Hospital Association) and the American Association
of Healthcare Consultants.
Practice Focus
Our practice is devoted to anticipating
and addressing the effects of current and future changes in
healthcare delivery. With increasing pressure to conserve
resources, facilities must be dedicated to being patient-oriented
while achieving increasing levels of operational efficiency.
Due to the inherent time demands of construction, management
requires facilities planning advice that anticipates alternative
levels and kinds of needs in both clinical and support functions.
In our assignments, we seek to translate the technical requirements
of project planning and delivery into the realities of our
clients’ business plans.
The rapidly changing healthcare environment
demands increasing flexibility in the role played by facilities
and equipment in responding to these changes. Through effective
planning, Metis Advisory Group, Ltd. transforms the complexities
of strategic and operational needs into viable facility responses.
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