Robert W. Klute AIA ACHA
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Summary of Experience
Robert W. Klute’s 30-year career in architecture and facility planning has been focused exclusively in healthcare. He has led both architectural and consulting teams in working for healthcare clients across the United States. His experience includes well over $1 billion in healthcare construction projects and ranges from totally new facilities to expansions and renovations. His credentials include planning work in specialty areas such as cancer care, cardiac care and ambulatory surgery.

Klute’s experience as an architect and as a healthcare consultant heightens his ability to understand the issues and hurdles confronting his clients. His perspective helps clients find solutions that work. His recent work includes:

• Master facility and expansion planning for six hospitals (130 - 700 beds) for a metropolitan Chicago healthcare system to help the system best allocate their capital dollars and prioritize expenditures.
• Facility master planning and programming for six hospitals of a southern healthcare system, including physician pavilions and an ambulatory care center network.
• Facility assessment and master planning for a 60-bed heart hospital located in the southwest.
• Planning and programming for a new 70-bed community hospital in the southwest; and programming for a new 136-bed heart and trauma hospital in the central Rockies.

Prior to forming Hosking|Klute Healthcare, Klute was a Director in a major accounting firm’s healthcare consulting practice and the principal healthcare planner in a major Midwestern architectural firm. In addition to his architectural project responsibilities, he was a managing principal and member of the architectural firm’s Executive Committee.

Professional Affiliations
He is a member of the American Institute of Architects and its Academy of Architecture for Health (AAH) and is a credentialed member of the American College of Healthcare Architects (ACHA).

Education
Klute holds a Bachelor’s degree in architecture from the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is a licensed architect in Illinois, Michigan and Florida and has been certified by the National Council of Architecture Registration Boards (NCARB).