Jeremy Bartz
Sr. Executive Director, Southeast | Healthcare PrincipalE4H Environments for Health Architecture, a MOREgroup BrandJeremy Bartz has over two decades of experience in healthcare and health‑science industries and is a vital voice in shaping how we approach care. Though designers come together out of a shared passion for the built environment, he believes the profession is really about people and the communities we serve—connecting with them, aligning them with opportunities, and designing to their individual needs. In the realm of healthcare, he’s an advocate for personalized health, moving away from care based on statistics and toward models that account for the whole biological person.
E75 – Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: The Story of Relocating a Medical Campus to Best Serve a Community for the Next 100 Years
Roper St. Francis Healthcare is relocating a 170-year legacy hospital from Charleston’s peninsula to a 27-acre North Charleston site at the region’s p…Roper St. Francis Healthcare is relocating a 170-year legacy hospital from Charleston’s peninsula to a 27-acre North Charleston site at the region’s population center, creating a resilient and accessible medical campus designed for the next century o…Roper St. Francis Healthcare is relocating a 170-year legacy hospital from Charleston’s peninsula to a 27-acre North Charleston site at the region’s population center, creating a resilient and accessible medical campus designed for the next century of care. Roper rooted the project in a community-informed process, expanding representation on advisory groups, and partnering with the City of North Charleston to ensure the campus reflects the needs,…Roper St. Francis Healthcare is relocating a 170-year legacy hospital from Charleston’s peninsula to a 27-acre North Charleston site at the region’s population center, creating a resilient and accessible medical campus designed for the next century of care. Roper rooted the project in a community-informed process, expanding representation on advisory groups, and partnering with the City of North Charleston to ensure the campus reflects the needs, identities, and priorities of the people it serves. The design team navigated a highly constrained site shaped by FAA flightpath and helipad limits (planes), active rail with vibration/acoustics requirements (trains), and complicated roadway access and queueing (automobiles). They transformed challenges into a community-centered campus that foregrounds patient access and experience through purposeful site features, public spaces, thoughtful amenities, and intuitive circulation. Leaders from the owner and design teams unpack how performance-based structural design, optimized enclosure assemblies, and multi-hazard solutions, together with community engagement, translated constraints into design opportunities. This session shares tactics for FAA approvals; vibration/sound mitigation; roadway/entry studies; and impact-resistant enclosure strategies. Attendees leave with lessons for designing complex hospital sites, where technical challenges, community expectations, and long-term resilience work together to elevate health, wellness, and equitable access. Show MoreClick the title to see all detailsShow More
