Relocation Services

Office Relocation and Expansion

Summary
In this age of mergers and consolidations in healthcare, the medical practice environment has undergone a significant shift in its expanding need for physical office space. At The Weston Group, we’re experts in planning, execution and relocation of small to large medical organizations with multiple locations throughout the Houston metropolitan area. This planning significantly reduces costly down time and provides for a more productive work environment, allowing employees at the new location to adjust more quickly.

Often, our clients ask us for assistance when moving an office, expanding into a large space, or opening a satellite clinic. Our expertise in facilities planning has helped many healthcare practices in reducing operational costs or expanding their space due to practice growth.

Solution
Practices relocate their offices for several reasons including an attempt to drive down operational costs or the need for additional space requirements with the addition of new physicians or services. Medical groups also expand into outlying geographic areas and open a new office for market expansion. Many times it is a combination of these factors.

One of the biggest concerns that managers and administrators share is the subsequent down time and resulting problems as the result of a physical move. They want to be able to face their owners, physicians and stake holders and promise them that the issues and down time will be minimal in order to keep the revenue stream flowing.

Weston has assisted in relocating offices with staffs as few as three people to those with over three hundred. The process begins with meetings to assist in space planning from an operations and computer perspective. Our careful planning determines the physical location of every person and device at the new office. Often, this process involves numerous parties, including the client and outside vendors. We deal with data, telecom, cabling, phone and other vendors to ensure that the results are going to meet the desires of the group.

Weston is also involved in the post-move to assist with any problems and issues should they arise. If they do arise, typically, they result from operations after they begin in their new space and could not have been forecast.

Benefit
In more than 20 relocations, Weston has helped each practice to achieve their goal of minimal down time and become operational on their deadline at a level beyond their initial expectations.

An organization experiences costs in relocating, some of which are the physical moving of the equipment as well as other hard costs. These costs are generally calculated into the plans to relocate and are part of the global return on investment which is tangible. Less tangible is the down time and other unforeseeable issues which arise as a result of the relocation.

By involving Weston in the moving process, medical organizations have benefited greatly from our planning process which results in minimal down time and the capacity for employees to adjust more quickly to the change. Because of our extensive expertise in this area, Weston is often depended upon for advice in many areas and the actual results have received standing ovations from organizations that we are helping with relocation.

Contact us for more information on relocation and expansion.