Stealth
2024
Envisioning the Future
of a Coastal Healthcare Campus
How can a leading healthcare campus evolve to further elevate its world-class patient and employee experience?
For a prominent hospital, renowned for its clinical excellence, the opportunity was clear: to build upon its legacy by transforming its campus into a truly unique and restorative environment. The hospital's leadership sought to proactively shape the future of their physical campus, ensuring it would not only meet the next wave of healthcare demands but also deepen its role as a destination for healing and innovation. To achieve this, Hospital leadership needed a unified, forward-thinking vision. We partnered with their internal teams, a leading architecture firm, and other key consultants to align all stakeholders around a single vision and translate it into a tangible master plan.
Our Approach:
Stakeholder Co-Creation Workshops
Future Technology Scenario Planning
In-depth Ethnographic Research
Strategic Vision & Alignment
Translating Vision to Master Plan Requirements
Uncovering a Shared Vision Through Co-Creation
A truly unified vision requires deep collaboration. We partnered with a multidisciplinary team of architects, engineers, and campus leaders to co-create the future of the Hospital campus. Through in-depth interviews and collaborative workshops with stakeholders ranging from the CEO to physicians and nurses, we built a rich, nuanced understanding of their daily challenges and future aspirations. This process of co-creation ensured that the final vision was not simply our recommendation, but a shared ambition embraced by all.
Charting a Course for a Tech-Enabled Future
To ensure the campus would be ready for the decades to come, we investigated future technology scenarios and their potential impact on the physical environment. We explored emerging trends in digital health, logistics, and patient care delivery to develop concepts like offsite materials management hubs—a solution that would free up valuable on-campus space for clinical care. This future-focused approach ensured the master plan was not just a response to current needs, but a proactive step towards a more technologically advanced and efficient future.
From Vision to Blueprint:
Our final and most critical step was translating the strategic vision into concrete requirements for the physical master plan. We worked to distill the core themes of connectivity, future-focused infrastructure, and institute-based care into actionable design principles. This process provided the architects and planners with a clear, strategic blueprint to guide the physical transformation of the campus, ensuring the final design would be a true reflection of the shared vision.
Cutting Edge Clinical Excellence
Integrate flexible spaces for clinical trials and translational research directly into the campus fabric to drive medical innovation and attract leading experts.
Organize the campus around a primary strategy of physically co-located institutes on lower campus outpatient programs.
Invest in a state-of-the-art, consolidated surgical platform, ideally on a single floor to improve efficiency and reduce challenging patient movement via elevators.
Future Ready Facilities
To free up valuable real estate on the upper campus, the plan includes exploring the development of an off-site or lower-campus logistics hub or consolidated service center.
New facility structures and footprints must be designed with the inherent flexibility to support future conversion to acuity-adjustable beds.
A Destination for the Community
The design will prioritize the creation of intentional outdoor spaces that enhance the healing environment for both patients and staff.
Create a cohesive campus by connecting the upper and lower areas via landscaped pedestrian pathways for staff and options for patients.
Provide a comprehensive suite of outpatient facilities on the lower campus to improve patient experience, foster clinical excellence and better align the campus layout with the clinical demands of patients.
Our Impact:
Empowered hospital leadership and their partners with a unified vision and a practical plan.
Delivered a clear strategic framework to guide the master planning process.
Introduced innovative concepts for facility planning that addressed future technological and clinical demands.