San Bruno Company Wins Contest to Help Build Hospital of the Future

A San Bruno-based company was recently selected as one of the winners of Kaiser Permanente's Small Hospital, Big Idea competition, a contest to find the most cutting-edge, sustainable design for a new kind of healthcare facility.

Aditazz, which focuses on innovations that improve the design and operation of commercial buildings, won the competition after an 11-month evaluation process that concluded this week in Los Angeles. The goal of the competition was to come up with an innovative concept for a small hospital design that provides a patient-centered healing environment, doesn't waste energy and uses new technology to improve the quality of healthcare and reduce costs.

Mazeetti Nash Lipsey Burch with Perkins+Will, both large companies with multiple offices throughout the country, was the other team that won the design contest.

"This victory validates the basic premise that Aditazz was founded on: built-environments in healthcare are primed for disruptive innovation," Aditazz co-founder Deepak Aatresh, a veteran of the micro-chip design industry, said in a statement.

"The final design was a perfect amalgamation of creativity and computation," Felicia Cleper-Borkovi, a healthcare architect who led the design project for Aditazz, added in a statement.

Aditazz's design featured such concepts a "memory garden" and "thrive lounges," vibrant public spaces and the use of solar panels and robots.

Kaiser's criteria for selecting the company's design were based on the fact that it:

• created spaces to inspire human-to-human interaction,
• included public spaces that blurred the boundaries of a traditional hospital environment, and
• made use of a unique tool that applies silicon-chip technology to the building and design process.

“Kaiser Permanente is enormously grateful for the hard work and thought Aditazz and Mazzetti Nash Lipsey Burch and Perkins+Will put into their designs," Dr. Benjamin Chu, group president of Kaiser Permanente's Southern California and Hawaii regions, said in a statement. "Together, they offer us a fresh new approach to delivering care in a way that reinforces our commitment to providing exceptional and convenient care to our members and to building healthy communities.” 

As a winner of the competition, Aditazz and the other company will get the opportunity to work with Kaiser on building a new hospital in Southern California. That model will be used to build similar small hospitals in Kaiser's other markets.

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