As a dedicated healthcare provider, your first priority is attending to the medical needs of your patients. Part of that commitment is providing your patients with a practice that is easily accessible and equipped with all the facilities necessary to deliver quality care. However, you may not be totally acquainted with all the details and nuances of leasing a suitable medical office.
For one thing, there are key differences between leasing a traditional commercial space and leasing a medical office. Take, for example, the choice of location. Physicians tend to stay in a particular location much longer than other professionals. That being the case, you need to find office space that will fit the needs of your practice for many years to come. Also, it’s to your practice’s benefit to be located close to specialists with whom you can mutually refer patients.
There are also other considerations associated with selecting and setting up a new medical office that you should be aware of:
- How you can utilize your office space to fit your needs. Proper service flow within your space that allows you and your staff to be efficient and productive is important. So is operating from a location that is in relatively close proximity to a hospital system.
- The professionals with whom you are sharing your building. It’s to your advantage to lease space that includes other primary care physicians and specialists to create your own built-in referral system that provides added convenience for your patients.
- ADA compliant office space. To meet the strict accessibility standards of the Americans with Disabilities Act, your office space should already meet as many requirements as possible, as the installation of new ADA-compliant amenities can be expensive.
- Whether any changes or improvements are necessary. If so, you’ll need to communicate closely and clearly with your landlord as they retain the right to access the space to check-in and ensure that the value of their property is not negatively affected by any demolition or remodeling done by your contractor.
- After-hours access to your practice. Since your medical office may not always operate during standard business hours, you will need to know whether you can access the building outside of normal hours – and if there will be any additional costs involved.
- Your use of hazardous and biomedical waste materials. Make sure your lease stipulates proper waste disposal procedures.
- Your landlord’s rights. A traditional commercial lease usually allows landlords to access, leased space to make repairs or host showings. With a medical office, however, landlord access may need to be limited to protect patient privacy. Also, you may want to include an exclusive-use provision in your lease preventing your landlord from leasing another space in your building to a specialist in direct competition with your practice.
Leasing A Medical Office in Naples, Florida
One way to simplify the process of finding the right location for your medical office is to lease at the brand new Executive Medical Center in Naples, Florida.
Located just a quarter-mile from I-75 and slated to open in February 2021, the Executive Medical Center is a contemporary-designed, three-story, 28,000-square foot building that offers a host of physician- and patient-friendly features, such as:
- Two spacious, stylishly designed floors of medical offices that are in move-in condition and equipped with all the amenities a busy practice like yours requires.
- An independent, state-of-the-art MRI imaging center located on the first floor, enabling you to obtain detailed diagnostic scans in a timelier manner.
- The North Naples Surgery Center, conveniently located on the third floor of the Executive Medical Center. This ultramodern outpatient ambulatory surgical unit is equipped with cutting-edge technology and a highly trained medical staff ready to handle a large volume of daily patient traffic and a wide range of elective, same-day procedures involving the use of moderate sedation.
- Surgeons with privileges at the Surgery Center will have access to any equipment, anesthesiologists, and/or medical staff you need to perform your particular procedure.
A great location and onsite facilities are just some of the advantages of leasing medical office space at the new Executive Medical Center.
