Planning
We help clients chart their way to more impactful care and world-changing innovation.
We work with healthcare and health science clients to make their complex and critical work easier and more impactful, planning tomorrow’s environments for treatment, healing, scientific investigation, and breakthrough discovery.

Master Planning
With over 250 master plans completed, we offer a wealth of experience in crafting viable plans to grow and develop healthcare systems while staying true to each client’s mission.
Our holistic approach delivers campus roadmaps that are inspired and actionable, with an ability to flex as institutional priorities evolve. From community health organizations and academic medical centers to international pharmaceutical companies and multi-campus health systems, our time-tested experience, data-driven process, and collaborative approach make us the right partner to help you chart your future and realize your vision.
Healthcare Planning
With a comprehensive approach, our planners collaborate closely with owners, caregivers, staff, and communities to understand workflows, patient populations, and operational challenges.
We plan proactively for future needs and consider the big picture to determine the highest and best use of your resources—always with a focus on scalability and flexibility. By prioritizing your needs and your vision, we facilitate a productive and interactive process that results in an achievable plan for the future of each of your service lines. Together, we can transform lives.


Health Sciences Planning
To plan a laboratory is to set the stage for discovery and game-changing breakthroughs. Working with leading research enterprises, from academic medical centers to pharmaceutical companies, E4H embraces the opportunity and responsibility to collaborate with those who are taking on the great health challenges of our time. We apply our programming and planning expertise to a wide array of lab environments, balancing operational efficiency with uplifting aesthetics to promote recruitment and retention.
Working alongside our clients, we tailor solutions with flexibility and adaptability to keep pace with the ever-evolving nature of science and technology.
Planning Services
Facilitation of Vision + Goal-Setting Sessions
Facility + Site Assessments
Operational Assessments
Interactive Planning Sessions
Stakeholder Engagement
Programming
Blocking + Stacking Studies
Staff, Patient, + Material Flow Analysis
Benchmarking + Best Practices
Phasing + Cost Analysis
Capital Investment Roadmap
Development of Sustainability Goals + Opportunities
Campus + System-wide Master Planning
Healthcare Space Planning
HS+T Planning
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Creating a Systemwide Master Plan to Usher in a New Era
Roper St. Francis Healthcare, the largest healthcare system in South Carolina’s Lowcountry, spans three counties and over a hundred facilities, forming a legacy that extends back over a century and a half.
E4H worked with market strategy consultant Capital Healthcare Planning (CHP) and Roper St. Francis Healthcare to create a systemwide master plan for ushering those facilities into a new era.
The team’s three-pronged approach of data analysis, facility assessment, and stakeholder engagement has yielded a set of design priorities that are guiding a value-based expansion of the system’s network of care, including the construction of a new flagship campus in North Charleston.
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