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Whether you are a physician, investment group, architect, or builder charged with developing a highly efficient and regulatory compliant facility, WEL Designs is the resource to see you through.

From the earliest stages of development, expert planning assistance, owner's representation through construction, post-occupancy trouble shooting, regulatory analysis and self-certification for Deemed Status Accreditation/Medicare Certification -- we offer consulting services to empower owners and design professionals to apply decades of focused specialization and design expertise including:

Regulatory Assessment Services
Operational Analysis & Upgrade Projection
Preliminary Development Services
Functionally/Operationally Optimized Planning
Planning Detail Refinement
Owner's Representation Services

AAAHC Physical Environment Checklist for Ambulatory Surgical Centers; Americans with Disabilities Act; ANSI A117; Clinical Laboratory Improvement Ammendments; CMS Conditions for Coverage; CMS State Operations Manual; Guidelines for Designs and Construction of health Care Facilities; NFPA 10, Standard for Portable Fire Extinguishers; NFPA 14, Standard for the Installation of Standpipe, Private Hydrant, and Hose Systems; NFPA 30, Flammable and Combustible Liquids Code; NFPA 37, Standard for the Installation and Use of Stationary Combustion Engines and Gas Turbines;

Regulatory Assessment Services
Unmatched regulatory expertise, from participation in national standards setting bodies -to- guiding facility conformance for the nations' premier ambulatory accreditation association -to- 26+ years experience with new and existing outpatient and clinical facilities. WEL Designs is the ultimate source for facility-specific regulatory conformance consultation:

	Regulatory assessment of existing facilities for conformance with Licensure, Medicare Certification, and/or AAAHC accreditation.
	3rd party review and assessment of architects' and engineers' design plans and/or construction documents
	Completion of Self-Certification documents of NFPA conformance required for Deemed Status Accreditation application. NFPA 50, Standard for Bulk Oxygen Systems at Consumer Sites; NFPA 70, National Electrical Code; NFPA 72, National Fire Alarm Code^®; NFPA 80, Standard for Fire Doors and Fire Windows; NFPA 99, Standard for Health Care Facilities; NFPA 101, Life Safety Code^®; NFPA 110, Standard for Emergency and Standby Power Systems; NFPA 111, Standard on Stored Electrical Energy Emergency and Standby Power Systems; NFPA 267, Standard Method of Test for Fire Characteristics of Mattresses and Bedding Assemblies Exposed to Flaming Ignition Source; NFPA 701, Standard Methods of Fire Tests for Flame Propagation of Textiles and Films

Operational Analysis & Upgrade identification
Lots of things can slow a medical practice or outpatient facility, eating away at profitability and discouraging service growth. The trick is to determine the source of such growing pains, from priorities overlooked, to changes in technology, or new procedures added, and develop an effective response that gets operations back on track -- a solution designed to minimize impact on the continued use of the space, within budgetary and time constraints.

Priorities frequently addressed include :

	Redefinition of patient flow to simultaneously accommodate incompatible patient acuities or special needs.
	Introduction of new technology or modalities that were not anticipated in original design.
	Isolation and correction of the "weak link" or "pinch point" in a facility with degrading operational efficiencies or procedural capacities.
	Patient satisfaction and/or privacy complaints.
	Staffing problems that defy correction through changes in staffing (sometimes it really is the building's fault).

Preliminary Development Services
From the onset of desire to develop a new facility, avoiding ill-conceived direction is not only desirable, it can be assured. From the start, every decision that leads to a highly effective and profitable facility can be organized and sequenced to dismiss bad ideas early, and facilitate development of the best. To that end, WEL designs offers "Pre-development" services including:

	Cash flow analysis (feasibility studies)
	Project definition, from required spaces to achieve a highly effective practice, ASC, or ancillary suite - to the land required and projected facility development costs. Start any project with a realistic understanding of the long term commitment and resources required

Functionally/Operationally Optimized Planning
The true value of any health care facility is found (or lost) in its operational efficiency, where the costs of providing a service are viewed in relation to the revenue generated. Every space, staff member, and piece of major medical equipment interacts constantly to arrive at an operational/economic mix -- ideally one where high quality care is provided with minimum waste of facility and staff resources.

To achieve this, WEL Designs treats every aspect of a facility in relation to its potential contribution to a cohesive and balanced entity, one where:

	The procedural capacities of dominant spaces or technologies are proportionally matched with support spaces necessary to achieve peak performance.
	Patient, public, staff, and material movement is orchestrated to minimize conflicts of purpose, while minimizing effort of use.
	Room size and proportion are determined by working clearances, furniture arrangement, and functional capacity -- assuring the fitness for intended use of every space in the facility

Planning Detail Refinement
While an excellent floor plan is the start of a superior facility, its ultimate contribution to your success is tempered or reinforced by spatial and construction detail. Every aspect of design and construction can and should be on purpose -- leave nothing to chance, and maximize the value of every dollar invested. Among the issues we customize for every facility:

	Cabinetry design.
	Lighting layout and switching control.
	Electrical and data receptacle locations.
	Sink and faucet/control selection.
	Door hardware and locking requirements.
	Finish material priorities.
	Nurse call system functions.
	NFPA conformance; piped medical gases and emergency power.
	Quality and construction standard identification
	. . . and more . . .

Owner's Representation Services
In a perfect world, you would get exactly what you expect from a construction project, with minimum delays and false starts during construction. Experience shows this is far from a perfect world, with many architects distancing themselves from construction site awareness and/or involvement, and contractors feeling free to substitute materials and elements of construction to suit their own priorities and bottom line. WEL Designs' owner representation services provide the client with true expertise focused entirely on facilitating construction of the exact facility described in the contract and documents for construction. Our ongoing involvement, and monthly construction site visits serve to, among other things:

	Serve as the client's advocate for communication; speaking both the client's language of health care priorities, and the construction professional's dialog of material and equipment assembly and complication.
	Reduce construction delays by identifying inconsistencies or errors in construction early in the process, before they become time-critical.
	Facilitate regulatory survey success by tracking completion of regulatory detail.
	Track construction detail's conformance with design requirements to maintain value of finished construction.
	Develop detailed and expert punch lists to establish requirements for full completion of the project prior to final payment.
	Guide the client through the "smoke and mirrors" of contemporary construction that can confuse priorities, slow progress, and sacrifice quality.

Contact Information

Telephone: 520-299-6550

FAX: 520-299-5364

Postal address: WEL Designs PLC; 5942 N. Camino Del Conde
Tucson, AZ 85718-4312
E-mail: WELdesigns@Gmail.com