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We work with our clients to tackle challenges head-on, reimagining approaches to create and sustain, well-functioning, thriving and resilient health systems and contributing to personal, societal, and economic well-being.
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Today, our health systems face complex challenges. Emerging and evolving science and technology drive constant change in models of care and health services delivery. Burgeoning data sets make the task of interrogating, interpreting, and using that data to optimize operations ever more complex. Growing populations, changing demographics and communicable and non-communicable diseases that continue to flourish in our communities are pressuring service capacity and budgets.
Current and upcoming global health crises have triggered vital discussions about the complexity of supply chain networks and the health defense of countries. These situations emphasize the critical need for advanced biomedical education and research infrastructures, as well as domestic production capacities in the pharmaceutical sector within an integrated healthcare framework. Moreover, they underscore the significance of essential service providers, including water utilities and public transportation systems, in maintaining the health and prosperity of communities.
Around the globe, we’re helping clients face these challenges head-on, reimagining approaches to create and sustain, well-functioning, thriving and resilient health systems and contributing to personal, societal, and economic well-being.
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100 +
healthcare projects representing over $45B in construction costs
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$ 1 B+
documented healthcare savings since 2005
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30 +
major academic medical centers
We’ve been working with healthcare providers and biopharmaceutical companies around the globe for more than 50 years and are the largest professional services provider to the biopharmaceutical industry. We have a detailed and nuanced understanding of their clinical, operational, and business performance requirements and we understand the challenges they face in managing their healthcare environment today while planning for tomorrow. We leverage deep subject matter expertise across diverse scientific, operational, infrastructure, environmental and digital domains, to deliver the very best solutions so they can bring their very best to the patients and families counting on them.
Don't just take our word for it though, Engineering News-Record ranks Jacobs No. 1 in both Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals.
Our Solutions
We're providing end-to-end solutions to complex challenges to create and sustain well-functioning and thriving health systems and communities.
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Health System Governance
We advise governments, healthcare agencies and organizations on creating and implementing new pathways for effective decision-making, resource management and operational environments. We focus on system structure, policy frameworks, oversight mechanisms, financial models, healthcare coalitions and accountability.
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Health Operations Advisory
We advise healthcare executives, service providers and corporate partners on pathways to remain people-centered, while making services accessible, affordable and integrated. We provide strategic, operational and digital advisory and implementation support to improve quality of care, optimize service delivery and enhance the safety of patients and healthcare workers.
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Health Infrastructure
We serve health system operators and providers, academic medical centers and research institutions and the world’s leading biopharmaceutical companies across the full asset lifecycle from funding, planning, design and procurement to construction, asset management, commissioning, and operations and maintenance. We provide end-to-end solutions that respond to our clients’ needs by delivering innovative facilities that are sustainable to operate and enhance economic, social and environmental outcomes.
Meet the Team
Get to know the leaders driving positive change around the world.
Featured Projects
We're reimagining approaches to create and sustain, well-functioning, thriving and resilient health systems.
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ShowcaseBlacktown Mount Druitt Hospital
Jacobs delivered architectural work for the award-winning project to expand clinical, clinical support and non-clinical services at Blacktown Mount Druitt Hospital (BMDH) and the delivery of the COAG sub-acute beds program across the two campuses.
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ShowcaseJacobs celebrates completion of largest surgical tower in Tampa, FL
To treat complex surgical cases needing state-of-the-art care, AdventHealth chose Jacobs to complete construction and project management for a $256 million surgical center in Tampa, Florida. The largest surgical expansion in Tampa Bay history, the new Taneja Center for Surgery opened in October 2021 and is the last phase of a five-year program that included a horizontal expansion to the existing parking deck and a doubling in size of the existing central energy plant.
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ShowcaseChristchurch Hospital Outpatients Building
Jacobs, in collaboration with our project partners, CCM Architects, delivered architecture, engineering and health-planning services under an integrated design model for the $45.5M Christchurch Hospital Outpatients Building.
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ShowcaseSpark Therapeutics, Corporate Headquarters & Research Facility
To meet the growing needs of its expanding business, Spark Therapeutics intended to develop a new Corporate Headquarters and Research Facility in downtown Philadelphia at One Drexel Plaza – a historic landmark building.
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From our newsroom
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NewsJacobs Publishes Final Report of Study on Lessons Learned from COVID-19
What can Global North countries like the U.S. and countries in Europe learn from positive outcomes in the Global South? And how can these lessons help the U.S. better prepare for future public health events? Jacobs’ report on more than 20 countries’ responses to COVID-19 and recommendations for public health officials is now available to the public.
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NewsDesigning for the patient, the clinician and the community: The future of health infrastructure
We connect with Global Solutions Director for Health Infrastructure Matthew Holmes to talk about his role helping clients develop and sustain healthcare facilities around the globe, and what inspires him most about his work supporting the delivery of healthcare services in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and other regions through design planning.
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NewsHealth system governance: Improving the resilience of our health ecosystem
In this piece, we connect with Health Systems Governance Global Solutions Director Dr. Nino Kharaishvili, to talk about her role partnering with clients across our markets and geographies to solve their challenges, and her ongoing journey to improve awareness around the impact of climate change on human health.
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NewsHow Online Water Quality Monitoring Provides Better Detection and Protection
The number of reported illnesses caused by water-borne Legionella bacteria have increased by nearly nine times in the U.S. since 2000. What if we showed you how Jacobs, alongside Cisco and s::can, designed a powerful, online monitoring system to monitor water quality and protect public health?
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NewsJacobs Piloting Program to Monitor COVID-19 Spread in Community Wastewater Streams
In an effort to better understand the spread of COVID-19, our Digital Solutions, Water and Operations Management and Facilities Services teams are launching a pilot program to monitor wastewater streams at locations where we operate plants.
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NewsTalking Once-in-a-Lifetime opportunities: A Q&A with Shari Blanch
In this interview we catch up with Jacobs’ Designer and Lead Health Researcher Shari Blanch ahead of the Australasian Health Design Conference in Melbourne where she’ll be co-presenting her research on the post occupancy evaluation process in Australia and New Zealand.
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NewsDesigning a Better Quality of Life: A Q&A with Megan Reading
In this Q&A we catch up with Jacobs’ Australia Section Leader – Architecture in Brisbane, Megan Reading, ahead of the Victorian Healthcare Week (VHW) conference where she’ll be moderating a discussion on the role of co-design in the healthcare infrastructure sector.
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PodcastsHealthcare Data Management: The Patient is In
With the intersection of advanced data technologies and the evolution of healthcare, both providers and patients look to benefit, but security, privacy and data hygiene still loom as potential areas of concern. In this episode of If/When, we discuss data science advances in the context of healthcare with two data science experts from Jacobs - Dr. Jennifer Blum and David Morgareidge.
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NewsQ&A: Talking with Randall ‘Buzz’ Summerford, Senior Project Manager, Healthcare
To mark the opening of the new Tanjea Center for Surgery—the largest surgical expansion in Tampa Bay history—we caught up with one of our teammates who worked on the project, Senior Project Manager Randall ‘Buzz’ Summerford.
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NewsAustralian Health Project Reaches New Milestone
Designs have been released for the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital redevelopment project in Sydney.
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NewsBringing Aviation and Health Solutions to a Brave New World
As the aviation industry returns to the skies amid eased travel restrictions, we explore the nexus between aviation and health to help accelerate the industry’s path to recovery, restore passenger confidence and redefine the future of air travel.
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NewsSafe Buildings Need Clean Air and Water
Maintaining occupant safety after long-term closures of buildings including schools, public offices and private properties.
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PodcastsUS Health Service: Post-COVID-19
In this episode, our guests Dina Salvaggio (Jacobs Principal of Healthcare Consulting, APG) and Donn Sorensen (Executive Vice President of Operations, Mercy Health Ministry) discuss the impact of COVID-19 on the American healthcare system, in such areas as workforce challenges, financial ramifications, and the evolving role of virtual medicine and technology.
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PodcastsNursing Home Design and COVID-19: Balancing Infection Control, Quality of Life and Resilience
In this episode of If/When, we spoke with Dr. Diana Anderson, Dr. Desmond O’Neill and Thomas Grey about the importance of the built environment for nursing homes and its impact on residents; what the COVID-19 pandemic revealed about existing challenges within nursing homes; and what an ideal environment for nursing home residents might look like going forward.
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WebinarsInfectious Diseases, Emergency Preparedness and Health System Resilience
In this exclusive interview from Jacobs, we spoke with healthcare experts Dr. Nino Kharaishvili and Dr. David Franz about a variety of topics, such as how COVID-19 compares to other epidemics and pandemics; what are the best practices for emergency preparedness; what are the most pressing challenges with regards to pandemic preparedness that are not receiving enough attention; how the current pandemic may change the way that healthcare systems respond to future pandemics; and many others.
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NewsJacobs Develops New Model to Help Clients Manage Remobilization of Public Operations and Capital Programs
Jacobs has developed a new COVID-19 modeling software program that is based on accepted probabilistic modeling techniques, and fuses publicly available datasets for COVID-19 infection statistics, sources such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention isolation guidelines, other publicly available data, and client or organizational-level data, and explores the differences between virus propagation based on various non-pharmaceutical interventions.