Reimagined Health Spaces of the Future: A Kaiser Permanente Journey - The Kimberly Hillier Memorial Lecture

Kaiser Permanente, founded 80 years ago, is a value-based health care delivery system. This presentation documents the last 10 years of our work, success, and the lessons we have learned along the way. Designing healthcare spaces for the future requires a deep understanding of future care delivery, the necessary technology, and the spaces that support it. This presentation explores the processes and tools used to define these spaces and technologies.

Most designs stop at this point and leave the implementation to someone else. At Kaiser Permanente, we took it further to ensure that this vision of care delivery becomes a reality. This means developing and implementing designs, constructing them cost-effectively through standardization and prefabrication, utilizing the supply chain, and assembly in the field. All of this is achieved while costing less than before.

Sunil Shah is the Vice President of Facilities Strategy, Planning and Design, National Facilities Design and Construction at Kaiser Permanente. In this executive role, he oversees a $30 billion capital planning and design portfolio across all nine Kaiser Permanente regions.

Sunil has over 34 years of hospital design and program management experience, including 30 years in various positions throughout Kaiser Permanente. He is a key player in the development of numerous innovative design projects that include the Small Hospital Big Idea competition, the award-winning Anaheim Radiation Oncology Center, and the Reimagining Ambulatory Care Design work.

He has a Diploma in Architecture from the School of Ahmedabad, India and holds a Master’s Degree in Environmental Planning from Arizona State University.

The Kimberly Hillier Memorial Lecture offers students, faculty and community members the opportunity to learn from leading practitioners in interior design and architecture. Lectures have included an exploration of the intersection of creativity and sustainability and how gender constraints and stereotypes have shaped and limited everyday objects throughout history. Speakers include Virginia San Fratello, Annmarie Adams, Lori Brown and Adrian Oarr.