IRVINE, CA—Despite the move toward the community and away from hospital-based healthcare, assets that are close to hospital campuses still matter considerably for health systems, NAI Capital's SVP and director of healthcare services Sonya Dopp-Grech tells GlobeSt.com. As we recently reported, Dopp-Grech represented CRC Real Estate Corp., an affiliate of CHOC Children's, in the purchase of the Centrum North Building at 1120 W. La Veta Ave. in Orange, CA for $43.4 million or approximately $245 per square foot. We spoke exclusively with Dopp-Grech about on- or near-campus healthcare properties and how they are being viewed and managed by health systems.

GlobeSt.com: As healthcare moves away from hospitals and closer to consumers, how are hospitals managing their on- or close-to-campus assets?

Dopp-Grech: Although one of the trends in healthcare is to move closer to consumers, centralized core campus facilities remain a key component to the delivery of healthcare. Each hospital has a different format, but overall, in the pig picture, hospitals try to keep control of as many assets as they can. In the case of CHOC, they own the CHOC tower and property across the street and can pull admin uses out of the hospital; they have control of the campus to do that. In some cases, they are using this space as back-office space. Opening clinics in the community is the trend, but it's a convenience and value for the patient base.