Healthcare
Solving the Interface Between Medicine
and Patient Care
Merrick’s healthcare work focuses on where medicine is changing fastest — the intersection of advanced therapies and patient care delivery. We do not design conventional hospitals or routine patient facilities. Instead, our support of complex facilities helps our healthcare clients integrate new technology, therapies, and patient care services that require specialized infrastructure and operations.
As treatments evolve, healthcare facilities must adapt. Cell and gene therapies, advanced diagnostics, and personalized treatment models require an interactive bridge between clinical research, standard of care medicine, and precision laboratory diagnostics. Merrick helps our healthcare clients address these challenges by designing environments that support highly sensitive processes, bridge the bench-to-bedside gap of translational research, facilitate strict handling requirements, and provide seamless patient care services. Our teams integrate infection preventionists, occupational hygienists, and healthcare-trained safety professionals directly into planning and design to ensure patient safety, staff protection, and regulatory alignment from the outset.
Our approach also recognizes how the environment influences patient care experience. We balance safety infrastructure and operational requirements with thoughtful design that supports inclusivity, access to care, and patient trust — factors that directly affect outcomes and whether individuals choose to seek treatment.
By asking the right questions early, Merrick helps clients prepare for where healthcare is heading. This includes designing facilities that can adapt to automated, modular laboratory systems, data-driven diagnostics, and emerging technologies that are reshaping how care is delivered, while maintaining safety, reliability, and operational clarity.
Why Merrick
- Specialized focus on advanced therapies, diagnostics, and clinical laboratory environments
- Design, planning, and operational support for healthcare facilities vital to the safe preparation of hazardous drugs and novel medications
- Facility design that supports personalized medicine and emerging treatment models
- Expertise bridging laboratory environments and clinical settings through healthcare-trained specialists
- Connecting healthcare facility design and operations to regulatory and accreditation compliance support
- Problem-solving approach for healthcare services that require specialized expertise, training, and procedural and operational knowledge
- Forward-looking designs that anticipate automation, AI-driven diagnostics, and evolving care delivery
