Healthcare Design Services
No matter how simple or complex your goals for your perioperative space, the STERIS Healthcare Design team can help. With deep expertise in designing hospitals, ambulatory surgery centres, healthcare departments and facilities, our team works with architects, facility planners, and contractors to design and purpose-build healthcare spaces that support optimal patient care and facility outcomes. From simple equipment placement and single-room layouts to entire department and hospital expansion projects, our dedicated and experienced team can support you from start to finish.
Creating Healthcare Spaces that Support Patients and Staff
STERIS provides expertise with a focus on lean workflow environments in the following areas:
- Medical Device Reprocessing Departments
- Operating Room Suites
- GI Endoscopy Suites
- Ambulatory Surgery Centres
- Surgical Instrument Rooms
- Emergency Departments
- Patient Care Facilities
- Utility Areas
Delivering Success Through Data
With STERIS, you receive more than healthcare planning and design. You gain a trusted partner vested in your healthcare facility's success. Utilizing data and the latest technologies in the industry, we deliver:

Equipment Capacity Assessments
Analyze current capacity using our sterile processing department simulator and identify the impact future growth will have on equipment capacity

Workflow Analysis
Creating a functional plan for your facility with the equipment and capacity to ensure your department runs efficiently

Design Development and Space Allocation Recommendations
Collaborating with stakeholders and the architects to design a healthcare space that meets all code requirements, guidelines, and clinical needs

Construction Documents
and Support
Detailed technical documents for architects, engineers, and construction team to reference pre and post-project construction completion
design and project management
Over the last 60 years, the STERIS Healthcare Design team has completed over 15,000 projects worldwide. From simple medical equipment placement and single room layouts to entire departments, STERIS's project design management expertise ensures your healthcare facility will be functional and practical. STERIS works with the stakeholders and architectural/consultant communities throughout every stage of a project to ensure the project reflects the Customer's needs for now and the future.
STERIS – A Trusted Partner From Start to Finish
A healthcare facility's planning and design process is critical to the project's overall success. Working with a partner specializing in healthcare and the departments you are building or renovating is essential. With a deep understanding of how various departments function, STERIS's planning and design team has experience and knowledge in the healthcare industry, partnering with our Customers throughout every step of the design process and the lifetime of your healthcare facility.
Throughout our consultation process, we work closely with Customers to identify project requirements and create a custom plan to meet the needs and objectives of your department and facility.
STERIS Planning and Design Process
1
Align on Customer
Needs & Consultation
STERIS aligns with Customers to identify their overall goals and provide recommendations based on our industry experience.
2
Customer Needs
Development
STERIS aligns with the Customer to provide in-depth recommendations and develop the proposed design of the project.
3
Planning & Schematic
Department/Facility Design
Our design team provides iterative designs in 2D and 3D to help Customers visualize the proposed designs.
4
Stakeholder Analysis
& Design Validation
Customers and Stakeholders review the proposed design, discuss any needed changes, and formally sign off on the design and plan.
5
Consultation
Documentation
Project documentation provided to the Customer's construction team including equipment drawings, planning sheets, site prep guides, etc.
6
Continued Support
Upon project completion, STERIS provides our Customers continued support for their needs now and future needs of their healthcare facility.
How STERIS is Different
From patient safety to overall department efficiencies, the design of your healthcare facility has a significant impact. Our knowledgeable design and project managers can guide you at every step of the project. Even after a project is complete, STERIS continuously provides support to ensure your space runs as efficiently as possible and provides ongoing services for medical equipment, surgical instruments, professional services, education, and more. Our broad range of offerings ensures you have everything you need on day one and the future needs of your facility. From Ambulatory Surgery Centres to large hospital networks, STERIS has you covered.
Take the next step and connect with the STERIS team to get started today!
project visualization and immersive Technology
Unmatched Design Services for your Healthcare Facility
From Engineering, Marketing, Software Development, and Design, we continuously innovate and look for new, cutting-edge technologies that help you visualize and plan for the future. Our custom software applications enhance the design process from start to finish. STERIS provides unmatched service for your healthcare facility through 3D-rendered images, video animations, visual FX, and immersive experiences.
Benefits of Innovative Healthcare Facility Design
Whether you want to visualize a custom-designed healthcare facility or browse a virtual showroom of our products, our team has the skill and experience to bring your vision to reality with efficient spaces that adapt to the overall goals of your facility. We allow stakeholders to optimize the layout and details of a healthcare facility by providing:
- Renderings – High-resolution 3D images of equipment, facilities/departments, and processes
- Animations – High-resolution 3D animated movies that can demonstrate a wide range of content
- Videos/VFX – Full suite of video editing tools to help enhance footage with colour correction, text, graphics, and timing
- VR/AR – Virtual Reality (inside an entire virtual world) and Augmented Reality (a virtual world mixed with the real world) can be shown to your Customer on-site or in the Customer Solutions Centre (CSC)
Designing Your Spaces for Success
Through collaboration with stakeholders, our deliverables convey complex details like required clearances, utility locations used for ideal equipment placement, architectural interaction, and optimized department flow so you can see all the moving parts and how they fit together. Equipment placement, product functionality, and spatial understanding allow us to anticipate risks or potential collisions.
Whether you want to visualize a custom-designed healthcare facility or browse a virtual showroom of our products, our team has the skill and experience to bring your vision to reality.