Since the creation of NISSA (/nid.za/) Consulting, Nicolas Bracco provides a wide range of services to nationally renowned healthcare architecture and planning firms, healthcare consulting companies and healthcare providers.

These services range from facility assessment, strategic facility planning, master planning, medical planning, to advisory role, thought leadership and peer review.

Nicolas fully integrates with your team of design professionals or healthcare consultants to deliver a specific project by bringing a broad range of experience and expertise. Healthcare institutions also rely on his vast experience to advise their leadership team through the planning and design process.

Client Testimonials

Don Futrell | Vice President-Planning, Design & Construction at Moffitt Cancer Center

"Nicolas and his team have been instrumental in our strategic planning efforts over the last several years. He has produced our campus master plan and provided multiple updates to the plan. As our organization has grown, his work has positioned us to pivot seamlessly during a time of tremendous growth. His ability to hear the voice of the customer and translate it into a living, breathing document to guide our growth has been invaluable to us."

Paul Strohm | Director Healthcare HOK

"Nicolas Bracco is one of the most talented and creative healthcare master planners with whom I have had the privilege of working. Both in-house at HOK and now, running his own consulting firm, he melds seamlessly into our team - providing functionally driven, operationally efficient, clear planning ideas that set the stage for strong design solutions. He is facile with financial modeling and construction cost projections, and he's very strong graphically. Nico is unique in the skill set and expertise that he brings to all healthcare planning and design assignments."

Todd Fitz | Managing Director at Kaufman Hall

"Nicolas brings a strong work ethic that is coupled with a desire to explore innovative approaches to problem solving. He is reliable, can self manage and deal with clients at the highest level."

Don Lemonds | Principal CannonDesign

"Nicolas has an extraordinary combination of talents. He has the strongest analytical skills and the greatest ability to communicate information with clarity."

Integrated Strategic Facility & Capital Planning

We define Strategic Facility Planning as the comprehensive and integrated process in which organizations align their physical infrastructure and financial resources with long-term strategic goals. This involves assessing existing facilities, defining capital investment needs, prioritizing projects, budgeting, managing risks, implementing projects, monitoring progress, and evaluating outcomes. It's an ongoing process that ensures facilities support strategic objectives, are sustainable, and comply with regulations. Effective master planning enhances operational efficiency and competitiveness.

Strategic Planning

Functional & Space Programming

Strategic Planning

Identify potential development opportunities in the service areas. Address the needs for outpatient and inpatient capacity by projecting workload demand and resource requirements. Provide gap analysis.

Facility Planning

Functional & Space Programming

Strategic Planning

Provide comprehensive and detailed facility master plan that establishes the space needs and opportunities for operational change in order to align with the strategic goals within the planning time-frames.

Functional & Space Programming

Create detailed space program for new build or renovation projects including functional and operational analysis of current and planned state.

Facility Assessment

Functional & Space Programming

Provide Facility Condition Assessment (FCA) to analyse and report the condition of the facility in terms of age, design, clinical use, future best use, flexibility, adaptability, adjacency, etc.

Capital Planning

Facility Assessment

Capital Planning

Determine master plan budget, create multiple phasing scenarios and compare them against cash flow target by year - therefore understanding

their impact on affordability, ROI, time to market, cost of escalation, savings opportunities, financial risks.

Medical Planning

Facility Assessment

Capital Planning

Develop design solutions that meets the client’s objectives of the program, design excellence, operational efficiencies, financial viability and workplace quality.