Healthcare facilities demand specialized construction expertise where safety, infection control, and operational continuity converge with complex technical requirements. Since 1888, Swinerton has delivered comprehensive healthcare construction services across all facility types—from behavioral health centers and ambulatory surgical centers to advanced research laboratories and acute care hospitals—while maintaining the occupied facility operations critical to patient care.

Better patient outcomes start with better healthcare facilities. Swinerton’s medical construction projects connect providers and patients in safe, efficient, healing environments designed for optimal care delivery. Healthcare systems and medical office developers have trusted and chosen Swinerton as their healthcare construction partner because the company understands what matters most: the patients, caregivers, and families who depend on exceptional healthcare spaces.

Why Healthcare Organizations Choose Swinerton

Employee Ownership Advantage

As a 100% employee-owned company, Swinerton’s team members have a vested interest in project success. This ownership culture translates directly to enhanced quality control, improved safety performance, and accountability that healthcare clients can rely on. Every Swinerton employee-owner understands that their reputation and future depend on delivering exceptional results.

135 Years of Construction Excellence

Since 1888, Swinerton has built America’s most essential facilities. This longevity reflects financial stability, proven project delivery systems, and multi-generational expertise that healthcare organizations value for complex, mission-critical construction projects. Swinerton’s experience spans economic cycles, technological advances, and evolving healthcare delivery models.

Innovative Mass Timber Solutions

Through Timberlab, Swinerton leads the construction industry in mass timber building—an innovative approach that offers healthcare facilities reduced carbon footprint, accelerated construction schedules, and superior sustainability performance. Swinerton has successfully delivered some of the nation’s most advanced mass timber projects, bringing unique expertise to healthcare organizations pursuing Net Zero and high-performance building goals.

National Resources, Local Commitment

With offices across the United States, Swinerton provides healthcare clients with consistent project delivery nationwide while maintaining deep local market knowledge. Healthcare systems expanding across multiple markets benefit from Swinerton’s ability to deliver standardized approaches with local execution, backed by the financial strength and resources of a national platform.

Integrated Self-Perform Capabilities

Swinerton employs union and non-union craft professionals, including carpenters and concrete specialists, providing healthcare clients with direct control over critical project elements. Self-perform capabilities enhance schedule certainty, quality control, and cost predictability—essential factors for healthcare construction projects where delays directly impact patient care capacity.

Design-Build Leadership

Swinerton’s integrated design-build approach fosters early collaboration between design and construction teams, ensuring cost certainty, schedule reliability, and innovative problem-solving. By uniting design and construction expertise from project inception, Swinerton delivers high-performing healthcare environments with greater efficiency and fewer change orders.

Q: What regulations govern healthcare construction?

A: Healthcare construction must comply with multiple regulatory frameworks including state health facility licensing requirements, OSHPD seismic standards (California), FGI Guidelines for Design and Construction of Healthcare Facilities, Joint Commission accreditation standards, and local building codes. Swinerton’s healthcare teams maintain current knowledge of all applicable regulations and hold specialized certifications including ASHE CHC credentials.

Q: How do you maintain hospital operations during construction?

A: Swinerton executes comprehensive phasing and logistics plans that account for patient and staff safety, infection control, wayfinding, noise and vibration mitigation, and protection of essential systems. The company develops contingency protocols for power, medical gas, water, HVAC, and other critical infrastructure, ensuring zero disruptions to patient care operations.

Q: What certifications do Swinerton’s healthcare teams hold?

A: Swinerton healthcare construction professionals hold ASHE Certified Healthcare Constructor (CHC) credentials, LEED AP certifications, and specialized training in healthcare infection control, OSHPD requirements, and FGI Guidelines. Many team members have decades of focused healthcare construction experience.

Q: Why consider mass timber for healthcare facilities?

A: Mass timber offers healthcare organizations significant sustainability advantages including reduced embodied carbon, faster construction schedules compared to steel and concrete, and superior environmental performance toward Net Zero goals. Through Timberlab, Swinerton provides healthcare clients with proven mass timber expertise and comprehensive project delivery capabilities.

Q: What types of healthcare facilities does Swinerton build?

A: Swinerton delivers comprehensive healthcare construction services including acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities, cancer centers, ambulatory surgical centers, medical office buildings, life sciences laboratories, and healthcare campus renovations. The company serves healthcare organizations across all facility types and project scales.

Q: How does employee ownership benefit healthcare construction projects?

A: Swinerton’s 100% employee ownership creates a culture of accountability, quality focus, and long-term relationship building that healthcare organizations value. Employee-owners have direct financial stake in project success, resulting in enhanced attention to detail, proactive problem-solving, and commitment that extends beyond individual project completion.