SAN DIEGO-Competition among health systems to attract patientsto their providers has created a demand for high design inmedical offices. The need to draw patients in isplacing in high demand those developers with the ability to provideposh, pampering medical-office environments, particularly in SanDiego, according executives at Pacific BuildingGroup here.

“Medical office is a continuing growth market,” JamesRoherty, president of PBG, tells GlobeSt.com. “We'reseeing medical-office buildings help attract patients to certainhealthcare groups.”

Roherty gives the example of a recent project: the renovation ofSharp Rees-Stealy Hospital in the Sorrento Mesasubmarket here, which now features a spa-like environment spurredby the increasing competition among health systems.

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Carrie Rossenfeld

Carrie Rossenfeld is a reporter for the San Diego and Orange County markets on GlobeSt.com and a contributor to Real Estate Forum. She was a trade-magazine and newsletter editor in New York City before moving to Southern California to become a freelance writer and editor for magazines, books and websites. Rossenfeld has written extensively on topics including commercial real estate, running a medical practice, intellectual-property licensing and giftware. She has edited books about profiting from real estate and has ghostwritten a book about starting a home-based business.