New Jersey architecture firms with documented healthcare work include Cornerstone Architectural Group, Seth A. Leeb Architect, and The Ives Architecture Studio, which focus on medical offices, clinics and care facilities; RSC Architects and NK Architects, which design hospital and health-system projects; and DMR Architects, Spiezle Architectural Group, and SSP Architectural Group, multi-sector firms with hospital and outpatient work. When choosing a firm for your project, we strongly recommend that you look for experience with New Jersey's state plan review for licensed facilities, the FGI Guidelines, and completed projects similar to yours.

How we compiled this list

Cornerstone Architectural Group is one of the firms listed. These are the guidelines we used to choose the others.

Every firm on this list:

• has an office in New Jersey;
• shows completed healthcare projects on its own website or in trade press;
• is an architecture firm, not an interior designer, furniture dealer, or design-build contractor.

Each fact below comes from the firm's own website or an independent source, linked in place, and was checked on October 7, 2026. We did not include rankings, awards, or "Best of" claims for any firm because we could not verify that information independently. National firms without a verified New Jersey office were not included.

Firms are listed alphabetically. Cornerstone Architectural Group, the author of this guide, is one of the firms listed. 

Healthcare Architecture Firms in New Jersey

Cornerstone Architectural Group

• Location: 202 Hamilton Boulevard, South Plainfield, NJ
• Founded: 1987 by Robert M. Longo, AIA, LEED AP (source)
• Healthcare focus: Medical office, clinic, and care-facility practice. Physician practices, urgent care, veterinary clinics, recovery facilities, and senior living
• Example projects: Medfirst Urgent Care, Bound Brook; Pediatrics on Park and Family Dentistry on Park, South Plainfield; BlueCrest Detox, Woodland Park and Remington; Chelsea Senior Living, five New Jersey locations (source)
• How the team works: Cornerstone leads a project-specific team of independent engineers and consultants and is the single point of accountability. 
• Good fit for: Medical office and urgent care fit-outs, recovery facilities, and senior living
• Website: cornerstoneag.com

DMR Architects

• Location: 777 Terrace Avenue, Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
• Healthcare focus: Multi-sector firm with hospital and outpatient work. Ambulatory surgery centers, medical office buildings, and hospital specialty suites (oncology, cardiology, surgery, maternity)
• Example projects: Hunterdon Healthcare Medical Office Building and Ambulatory Surgery Center, Bridgewater (NJB Magazine); St. Peter's University Hospital Oncology Suite, New Brunswick
• Good fit for: Ambulatory surgery centers, medical office buildings, and hospital suites
• Website: dmrarchitects.com
  

The Ives Architecture Studio

• Location: 14-25 Plaza Road, Fair Lawn, NJ
• Founded: By Joel Ives, AIA, PP (source)
• Healthcare focus: Medical office, clinic and care-facility practice. Medical office fit-ups, memory care, adult day care, and an inpatient alcohol rehabilitation center
• Example projects: OB/GYN medical office, Englewood; Regency Memory Care Club, River Edge
• Good fit for: Medical office fit-ups, memory care and adult day care
• Website: ives-arch.com
  

Jarmel Kizel Architects & Engineers

• Location: 42 Okner Parkway, Livingston, NJ
• Founded: 1975, by Marvin Jarmel (source)
• Healthcare focus: Multi-discipline architecture and engineering firm with in-house civil, structural and MEP/fire-protection engineers. Its healthcare work includes hospital-system medical office buildings and hospital-affiliated wellness centers with clinics
• Example projects: RWJBarnabas medical office building, New Brunswick (229,400 sf, 15 stories; REBusiness); HUMC Fitness & Wellness, Maywood, including 35,000 sf of licensed medical clinics (source)
• Good fit for: Medical office buildings and wellness centers for health systems
• Website: jarmelkizel.com
  

Seth A. Leeb Architect

• Location: 1719 Route 10 East, Parsippany, NJ
• Healthcare focus: Medical office, clinic and care-facility practice. Medical offices and practices, dental (general, pediatric, oral surgery, orthodontics), chiropractic, clinics, and therapy and sports centers
• Example projects: DelaRosa Dental; SportsCare medical office
• Good fit for: Dental and medical practice fit-outs
• Website: leeb-architecture.com
  

NK Architects

• Location: 95 Washington Street, Morristown, NJ (also offices in New York and Philadelphia)
• Founded: 1972, in Morristown, by Ray Nadaskay and Allen Kopelson (source)
• Healthcare focus: Hospital and health-system practice. Acute care (emergency, cardiology, oncology), rehabilitation, and a dedicated behavioral health practice covering substance use, crisis, geriatric, adolescent and community mental health
• Example projects: Atlantic Health Morristown Medical Center Pediatric Emergency Department; Carrier Clinic Substance Abuse Clinic (healthcare, behavioral health)
• Good fit for: Hospital departments and behavioral health facilities
• Website: nkarchitects.com
  

RSC Architects

• Location: 3 University Plaza Drive, Hackensack, NJ
• Founded: 1971, by Richard B. Rivardo (source)
• Healthcare focus: Hospital and health-system practice. Inpatient and outpatient care, imaging and surgery centers, operating rooms, med-surg, behavioral health, oncology, neonatal and primary care
• Example projects: Hackensack University Medical Center Helena Theurer Pavilion (architect of record, core and shell; ASHE showcase); HUMC Central Utility Plant
• Good fit for: Hospital projects, from new pavilions to clinical departments
• Website: rscarchitects.com/healthcare

Spiezle Architectural Group

• Location: 1395 Yardville Hamilton Square Road, Hamilton, NJ (one of eight offices across NJ, PA, NC, FL and AZ)
• Healthcare focus: Multi-sector firm with hospital and outpatient work. Acute care and senior living
• Example projects: Lancaster General Hospital Neuroscience Institute (Pennsylvania); Parker at Monroe small-house long-term care, Monroe, NJ (BD+C)
• Good fit for: Acute care and long-term care projects
• Website: spiezle.com
  

SSP Architectural Group

• Location: 50 Division Street, Somerville, NJ
• Founded: 1891, by Peter C. Van Nuys (source)
• Healthcare focus: Multi-sector firm with hospital and outpatient work. Medical and pediatric offices, dental, cardiology, cancer centers and community health centers
• Example projects: St. Luke's Health Center, Clinton (25,000 sf outpatient); Zufall Health Center renovation, Somerville (source)
• Good fit for: Outpatient centers, community health centers and specialty offices
• Website: ssparchitects.com

How to choose a healthcare architect in New Jersey

Most of the issues we see on New Jersey healthcare projects start with a firm that hasn't done this kind of work before. Drawings for a licensed facility go to the local building department but never reach the state, which also has to review them. A lease gets signed on a space that can't meet the license the facility needs. A renovation inside an operating clinic starts without an infection control plan. Any one of these can push back an opening date. The seven questions below will help you identify (on a first call) whether a firm has the right experience to take on your project.

1. Have you taken projects through the state's Health Care Plan Review? Under N.J.A.C. 5:23-3.11(a)8, the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs (DCA) is the sole plan review agency for healthcare facilities as defined by code. Licensed healthcare facilities must submit plans through the state's Health Care Plan Review process rather than relying solely on municipal review.
2. Which healthcare design standards and FGI requirements apply to my project? New Jersey healthcare facilities are regulated under different licensing frameworks, including hospitals, ambulatory care facilities, behavioral health facilities, and certain residential healthcare settings. The applicable FGI Guidelines and state licensing requirements can significantly affect room sizes, support spaces, infection-control measures, life-safety features, and building systems. An experienced healthcare architect should be able to explain which standards apply and how they will influence the design
3. Which license will my facility need? New Jersey's new outpatient licensing framework allows certain providers to combine behavioral health, substance use disorder, and primary care services under a single integrated license. Determining which license applies should happen before a lease is signed because licensing requirements can significantly affect space selection and design
4. Can I see completed projects like mine? A hospital wing and a two-doctor suite are different jobs. Ask for two or three completed projects of the same type and size, and for references you can call.
5. Have you renovated inside an operating facility? Renovating an operating clinic usually means an infection control risk assessment (ICRA) and phased construction. The FGI Guidelines drive ICRA in most jurisdictions (ASHE quick guide). Ask how the firm phased the work around patients and staff.
6. How do you handle local approvals? Many clinics move into buildings that were never clinics, so zoning, change of use, and municipal review come up early. Ask how the firm has handled them with the local municipality.
7. Who is on my team, and who is accountable? Some firms have in-house engineers. Others assemble independent engineers and other specialists for each project. Either structure can deliver a good project, but you should know who will be on your team, who is coordinating them, and who answers to you for the result.

What to do next

1. Confirm your facility's licensing path with the Department of Health or your healthcare counsel before you sign a lease.
2. Shortlist two or three firms that have completed projects of the same type and size as yours.
3. Ask each firm the seven questions above on a first call.
4. Call their references and ask how plan review, approvals, and construction actually went.
   

If you are planning a medical office, clinic, or care facility in New Jersey, we can talk through your project and the approval path it is likely to follow on a first call. Contact Cornerstone Architectural Group.

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Contact Cornerstone about your healthcare project

Cornerstone Architectural Group designs physician practices, urgent care centers, recovery facilities, and senior living from our office in South Plainfield. To start a conversation about your project, get in touch.