George Garner has spent most of his career planning medical facilities.

His project portfolio includes facilities ranging from 2,000sf to 2 million square feet in 37 states, plus several overseas projects.  In total, he has planned over 5.6 million square feet of healthcare space and budgeted or procured over $600 million worth of capital equipment.

His clients have included both large and small IDN’s, hospitals, architectural firms, Design/Build Firms, GPO’s, software firms and medical equipment planning firms, each in a variety of capacities, but always with the goal of delivering a better project outcome for the client.

1990 – Facilities Development, Inc. (Sr. Project Manager)
FDI, Inc was a small medical equipment planning firm with less than 10 employees in 1990. It quickly grew in size, services and sophistication, emerging as an industry leader by the time Mr. Garner left in 1995. The firm was later purchased by Kitchell and continues to provide equipment planning services to their healthcare clients.

1995 – Garner Resource Group, LLC (Principal)
His first leap into a solo practice. He split his time between medical equipment planning services to clients, software sales (calling on medical equipment vendors) and developing a next-generation equipment planning software for the healthcare industry.

1996 – Sweet’s Group (Healthcare Industry Sales Specialist)
A joint venture between Autodesk and McGraw-HIll offered an opportunity to network within the healthcare capital equipment industry. While the product, DesignBlocks, was ultimately dropped, their vision for a standardized product library would live-on in Mr. Garner’s subsequent work.

1997 – META Associates (VP of Equipment Planning & Procurement)
A full-service program management and Design+Build firm, it was spun-off from Humana when they sold their hospitals to re-focus on their insurance business. META offered architecture, engineering, interior design, equipment planning, project management, procurement and preventive maintenance. Parsons acquired them a few years ago.

1999 – Neoforma, Inc. (Director of Product Development)
A dotcom start-up in Silicon Valley, it had the vision of re-inventing healthcare purchasing via the internet. Unfortunately, it went the way of most internet start-ups of its day.

2001 – Attainia, inc. (Co-founder & COO)
A spin-off from Neoforma, we kept the software acquired from FDI, Inc (EQPlan) and the intellectual property rights for the web-based version. By 2002 we had a web-based capital budgeting solution, quickly followed by a web-based equipment planning solution. Today, Attainia is the leading provider of capital budgeting and equipment planning solutions for the healthcare industry.

2006 – Garner Resources (Principal)
Back to his roots, George started Garner Resources to offer equipment planning consulting services. He uses the Attainia suite of web-based planning tools and enjoys the efficiencies of spending more productive time on each project.

In 2008, he created BetterHealthCareDesign.com to share his insights and experiences from over 20 years in the healthcare construction industry.  Today, he consults with several clients to bring his ideas and energy to the pursuit of better healthcare design. If you have questions or comments, please contact George Garner.