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Keeping Patients + Staff Safe Is Our Highest Priority

Health care organizations are shifting their focus to improving both the quality of service and the patient experience. We partner with you to deliver the highest levels of construction and system safety, ensuring you can plan for, respond to, and recover from any type of emergency. During construction, renovation, or design projects, we provide code and standard compliance support to help you stay ahead of evolving regulations.

We understand the unique needs and challenges of the healthcare environment. With extensive experience in emergency preparedness across all types of healthcare organizations, we bring a keen awareness of healthcare operations. From solving new construction design concerns and conducting Life Safety Code® assessments, to working with Integrated Health Systems or regional Health Care Coalitions on emergency preparedness, we support you by understanding your needs and developing seamlessly integrated solutions and technology. This enhances your organization's ability to provide care and protect its reputation.

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Our team of experts are ready to help you

Meet the Experts

Safety, Security + Resilience for your Health Care Ecosystem

With a dedicated team of healthcare experts, we offer world-class expertise in the Life Safety Code® and other healthcare-related requirements, focusing on optimizing the patient experience while making sure the best practices for operations are considered. Whether you're expanding an inpatient tower or consolidating an existing medical campus, we understand the many complexities associated with projects like these. Vulnerabilities and risks are heightened immensely when you must maintain a fully operational medical center with numerous public and community access points, wellness and nature components. A trusted partnership with our firm gives you peace of mind that patients and staff are safe before, during and after construction.

Healthcare Services

Learn more about our service offerings for healthcare facilities.

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Accessibility + Universal Design Consulting

Accessibility is impacted by overlapping laws, codes, standards, and initiatives which can make it more challenging than other aspects of…
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AHJ Representation + Plan Review

Whether a project is a renovation, addition, tenant fit out, or new construction, all facility designs are subject to compliance approval…
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Built Environment + Resiliency

Our team of experts offers comprehensive services to a diverse range of clients in the built environment, such as…
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Business Continuity

An unplanned event — such as severe weather, power outage or virus outbreak — can severely disrupt organizations and prevent normal…
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Catastrophic Response

What is a catastrophic event plan? After a major catastrophic event, you need a catastrophe response plan to get your disaster recovery…
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Code Consulting + Performance Based Design

Our building and fire code experts collaborate with architects, developers, owners, construction firms, design-build teams and…
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Emergency Preparedness

We work closely with clients in industry and government to establish an all-hazards approach to comprehensive, well-defined emergency…
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Environmental

Knowing the full scope of environmental concerns is critical to operations whether in the pre-construction phase or to keep up with…
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Customizable Plans for Long Term Care

On September 8, 2016, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that the Federal Register published the final…
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Fire + Emergency Services Consulting

In addition to fire protection engineering, Jensen Hughes provides fire and emergency services consulting to public and private agencies…
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Fire + Life Safety Building Commissioning

A building's fire and life safety system is only as good as it's installed. From design, inspection, testing, and maintenance, we work with…
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Fire + Life Safety Systems Design

Fire and life safety are pivotal considerations in today’s building designs. The integration of fire alarm systems, fire protection, life…
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Forensics

Our experts can help determine the origin and cause of fires, injuries, or electrical and mechanical failures. We also…
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Hazardous Materials Safety

The classification, processing, and safe handling of hazardous materials is critical to life safety, business continuity and loss…
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Healthcare Emergency Preparedness

Protecting your occupants and facility during an emergency event such as a fire, severe weather or active shooter scenario starts with…
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Fire Safety Training + Drills for Healthcare Workers

There are a couple of primary reasons for the loss of life in healthcare facilities. They include a lack of attention or knowledge of fire…
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Life Safety Assessments

Health Care systems are continually challenged to properly assess their compliance with the Life Safety Code® (NFPA 101), understand the…
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Industrial + Process Safety

Having a sound Process Safety Management (PSM) foundation is imperative to life safety, business continuity, loss control, regulatory…
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Life Safety Education

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), The Joint Commission (TJC) and other Authorities Having Jurisdiction have moved…
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Emergency Mass Notification Systems + Design

In an emergency, it’s often difficult to predict and manage people and their actions. Having a well-designed Mass Notification and…
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Mutual Aid Plan Development

When evacuations must happen quickly, keeping track of every patient can be a difficult task. The priority is getting everyone out of…
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Pedestrian + Evacuation Modeling

Knowing the performance of your facility during day-to-day operations is critical to understand. Whether it is a concert hall, airport…
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Pre-Construction + Construction Administration Support

Our multi-discipline engineering team works with you in the design phase to identify potential compliance issues, develops solutions that…
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Security Assessments

Understanding the gaps in your organization’s physical and technical security is a critical first step in prevention-focused security risk…
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Security Design

Proper security design is a vital component of site planning, design and layout. Our global security experts work directly with developers,…
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Security Risk Management

Before you invest in new or improved security capabilities, you need to understand your risks. Whether you’re in charge of enterprise-wide…
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Smoke Control Systems, Fire Modeling + Tunnel Design

Codes and Standards require fire safety features based on a one-size fits all approach. While traditional compliance may be acceptable for…
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Surge Capacity Planning + Management

When emergencies impact hospital bed demand, facilities look for ways to manage a sudden influx of patients. Whether it’s an internal surge…
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Surgical Fire Training

Surgical fires have reduced over time — this is due to a variety of factors, but effective training and education is a critical component…
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Testing, Research + Development

To solve our clients’ most pressing and critical safety challenges, we use our network of in-house safety testing lab facilities, led by…
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WorkplaceThreat + Violence Risk Management

Workplace violence is a risk for any employer, but is one we can help manage. We specialize in behavioral case management services and…
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Wildfire Risk Mitigation

Development and recreation within our natural environments are contributing to an increased risk of wildfire and its negative impacts to…
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We partner with you to solve complex challenges throughout the project lifecycle

While many of our services and solutions are utilized across various markets and applications, dozens of others are highly specialized and unique to one industry or another. From aviation, power and healthcare to nuclear energy, insurance and manufacturing, our team of engineers and consultants includes the most experienced industry experts from around the world.

  • Built Environment + Resiliency
  • Code Consulting + Fire Engineering
  • Energy + Utilities
  • Emergency Management + Response
  • Security Risk + Public Safety
  • Forensics
Our Office Locations

With offices around the world and team members on the ground in key regions, our global reach and vital in-country expertise enable us to deliver solutions that meet the specific needs of our clients and the communities we serve.

Our Offices
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