California Pacific Medical Center - Van Ness Campus

Occupying an entire city block along a major San Francisco arterial, the new 12-story, 274-bed California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) Van Ness Campus is designed as a ‘hospital within a hospital.’ Based on a system-wide strategic master plan developed by Sutter Health and SmithGroup, this new hospital unites two of CPMC’s existing urban campuses into a tertiary and quaternary hub for all of CPMC’s facilities citywide, housing two hospitals—adult acute care and women’s and children’s—in one building.

The integrated project delivery team utilized forward-thinking methodologies including Lean programming and state-of-the-art modeling and fabrication techniques to create one of the smartest, safest and most sustainable hospitals in the country, nearly a year ahead of schedule and on budget. The use of 120 viscous wall dampeners—the first U.S. hospital to use this technology—ensure the facility can withstand a major earthquake and remain fully functional for up to 96 hours without any outside help.

The next-generation program dissolves departmental boundaries, both functional and physical, to reintegrate them around the point of service, improving the workflow and productivity of the whole system. The most significant application of this strategy was the creation of an innovative, integrated interventional platform that functions as a combined surgery, interventional imaging, cardiac catheterization and special procedures floor, wrapped around a singular post-anesthesia care unit (PACU) and prep/Level-2 recovery operation.