// COMPANY DOSSIER
Agnew Peckham
Canadian healthcare planning and programming consultancy serving health-sector clients exclusively. It develops clinical strategic plans, functional programs and functional output specifications that hospital owners and their architects use to design and deliver capital facility projects.
📍 Toronto (North York), Ontario, CanadaEst. 1950✓ 83% first-party verified
// CLIPS FROM Agnew Peckham
“do you use the fridge like for snacks and she's like no we just used the freezer”
“the new waterford hub is a truly amazing project”
“the rate of injury for nurses is higher than for construction”
“there's research papers about long-term care they gave everybody a plant”
“the nice thing about architecture as opposed to nursing is like these are all fixable things”
“ron wickman specializes in accessibility and visitability”
“i worked with an orthopedic surgeon doing casting”
“if you work seven years as a nurse you'll have at least one lifetime disability”
“when you go inside a hospital you come into the ambulance bay it smells like exhaust”
// LESSONS FROM Agnew Peckham
Lived experience inside a broken system is the most powerful design brief an architect can carry into a healthcare project.
Evidence-based design details — a window view of a tree, natural wood on walls — measurably reduce patient pain medication use and shorten hospital stays, justifying their cost in construction.
Ask 'why' until you reach the real requirement: discovering a therapy group only needed a countertop ice machine, not a full fridge, saved space, energy, and an ongoing ice budget.
On government healthcare tenders, a contractor who asks thorough RFI questions signals engagement, reduces surprise cost exposure on site, and ultimately helps the project team set a fair tender.
Healthcare buildings carry code constraints (post-disaster classification, flame-spread limits) that eliminate common finishes used in schools or commercial build-outs — estimators must scope accordingly.
Collocating unrelated public services (school, LTC, food bank, health centre) inside one building removes stigma barriers that prevent vulnerable people from accessing care.
// SELECTED PROJECTS
New Windsor-Essex Acute Care Hospital (The Fancsy Family Hospital)
In progressFunctional programming consultant (with 38 user groups)
Windsor Regional Hospital PMO report (June 2022) states the 38 user groups 'worked diligently with Agnew Peckham Healthcare Planners to develop an excellent Functional Program (FP) document.' Project status re-checked: still pre-construction in 2026 — Infrastructure Ontario tendering, EllisDon selected for the first phase; shovels targeted for early 2026.
The Ottawa Hospital New Campus Development
In progressMaster Programmer
ReNew Canada project listing names 'Master Programmer: Agnew Peckham Health Care Consultants.' ~$2.8B P3; development phase agreement signed early 2024; targeted completion 2028 (in progress as of 2026).
Western Memorial Regional Hospital (new)
CompletedEarly planning consultant (later superseded by Stantec)
The Independent (NL) names the early planning sequence: 'first Hatch Mott MacDonald/Agnew Peckham Consultants, then Stantec.' Agnew Peckham's involvement was during the pre-2013 re-design phase and the firm was later replaced by Stantec — it is NOT the consultant of record for the as-built facility. The hospital itself reached construction-complete (Gov NL release, 10 Nov 2023) and opened to patients 2 June 2024. Agnew Peckham's role here is real but limited/early; the gov completion release does not name Agnew Peckham.
// NOTABLE
Founded in 1950, Agnew Peckham describes itself as the first facility-programming firm in Canada devoted solely to healthcare, with 75+ years of experience.
SOURCE ▸The firm operates exclusively for healthcare organizations and structures its work across three practice areas — strategic, operational and facility planning — completing roughly 70 consulting assignments per year.
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