KSA's facility planning group partners with clients to devise successful facility development strategies. Space is a capital asset and should be managed with the same care and precision applied to other corporate resources. KSA's services include multiple proprietary methods and software tools to ensure every project optimizes the use of space.

Our consultants, whose backgrounds range from nursing to business to architecture, are expert facilitators specializing in health facility planning. Using our combination of expertise and cutting-edge methods, we conduct engagements as broad as multi-campus strategic facility plans, and as specific as functional and space programming for a single building project. When construction or renovation is part of the answer, we help ensure clients' dollars are spent wisely, and that buildings help achieve strategic and operational goals.

Strategic Facility Master Planning

In this comprehensive service offering, we define an organization's future facility requirements through a process that begins with understanding the market to be served and defining future facility capacity and location needs. These needs are compared with the existing facility inventory, priorities are established, and specific facility solutions are developed to close the gap. The comprehensive nature of KSA's consulting offerings (strategy, facility planning, and IT) ensures that the client's strategic goals and IT capabilities are included in future facility directions and overall capital investment projections.

• Determination of major strategic objectives, trends, and market opportunities
• Definition of clinical program capacity requirements, current and projected
• Site assessment and development planning
• Facility condition evaluation
• Off-site (leased property) inventory and evaluation
• Highest and best use of existing buildings
• Clinical capacity analysis (throughput analysis, bed need assessment)
• Alternative facility scenarios, including projected space needs, estimated capital cost, and construction phasing for:
  • Growth/expansion
  • Network integration/consolidation/merger
  • Retrenchment/decommissioning
  • Re-use
  • Total campus replenishment/replacement
• Integrated capital planning and forecasting across facility, strategic, and IT initiatives

Functional and Space Programming

When a building project is identified, it is further defined through functional and space programming. KSA approaches this task through a well-defined methodology that involves medical and clinical staff. The process begins with clients and consultants jointly developing operational performance specifications, then creating the detailed space allocation requirements for each service or component to occupy the building. Operational modeling and process flow analysis, including simulation modeling and IT planning are available services that can enhance and strengthen the functional and space program.

• Program vision development
• Program capacity requirements
• Detailed functional programming, including development of operational concepts
• Detailed space programming
  • Room-level components
  • Net and gross square footage projections
  • Concept diagrams of "typical" configurations
• Transition to schematic design (gaming exercises)
• "Second Opinion" analyses of proposed project

Service Line Facility Planning

Today's brand-conscious, market-driven health care environment places a premium on packaging an organization's services as an identifiable service line or center of excellence. Organizing facilities to support and enhance a service line marketing strategy is another KSA planning specialty. Whether it's a heart hospital, a women's and children's pavilion, a comprehensive cancer center, or an ambulatory care building, KSA has developed proven, credible methods and tools to test the service line strategy, identify the best mix of service components, build the operational model, and plan the facility.

• Focused program vision development for specific service/product lines, such as:
  • Cardio-vascular (heart hospital)
  • Children's hospital
  • Comprehensive cancer center
  • Neurosciences
  • Women's services
  • Ambulatory care
• Focused strategic services such as market modeling, location analysis, and forecasting for specific service/product lines
• Focused detailed space and functional programming for specific service/product lines
• Concept diagrams and transition to schematic design
  • Operations and process planning
  • Operations concepts development
  • Patient encounter redesign and process improvement: the Ideal Patient Encounter
  • Simulation and care modeling, flow diagramming
  • Staffing analysis and projections
• Ambulatory care network development
• Planning for service/product line-specific information technology requirements, including capital cost estimates