From fine to fabulous.

Patient and clinician experience for surgical services.

I help surgical teams, and the architects who design their spaces, turn good care into the kind patients rave about and clinicians want to be part of.
The bottom line follows.

Working together

I bring a clinician’s view to the places where procedures happen: ambulatory surgery centers, hospital surgical services, imaging centers, and procedure-based practices. Every engagement starts with a conversation.FOR CENTERS AND PRACTICESGreat service lives in small moments: instructions a patient can read, coffee for a waiting family, prescriptions ready before discharge. It comes from people who love where they work. I start with your OAS CAHPS or survey scores, trace the patient’s path from the first phone call through follow-up, and come on site to see the work and talk with the people doing it. You get a ranked list of recommendations, with the reasoning behind each.FOR ARCHITECTS AND DESIGNERSGreat spaces care for the people in them. Sound and light shape how a patient feels walking into pre-op and how a surgeon feels between cases. Good design also saves steps and gives people places to connect and recharge, indoors and out. I’ve spent years working in these rooms, and I join design teams to bring that experience into the plans. I draw on evidence-based design research, so you can show your client the reasoning behind each design choice.

About

I’m Kimberly Valenta, MD. I started as an anesthesiologist at Stanford, where I directed daily anesthesia operations for a busy ambulatory surgery center and became founding anesthesia medical director of a new eye surgery center, designing its anesthesia workflows and choosing its equipment.Since then, I’ve mapped patient journeys for a national health brand, designed clinical decision support for a care transitions platform, written continuing education for clinicians, and mentored health tech founders.Through Note Medley, I bring that experience to surgical and procedure teams, and to the architects who design their spaces, so care works better for patients and the people caring for them.

What Colleagues Say

“[She] offered thoughtful input on strategy, helped improve our editorial processes... Kimberly was a true partner: collaborative, reliable, and always generous with her time and insights.”MELANIE GITTIBAN
Healthcare Operations Executive―――“Kimberly tackles projects big and small with ease, knowing which questions to ask to move things forward with integrity. She translates complex medical science into easy-to-understand language that maintains accuracy and empathy.”LISA VALENTE, MS, RD
Medical Integrity Manager, RVO Health―――“Kimberly is highly organized and able to clarify priorities and execute on fast-moving projects. Her instincts regarding content and audience needs were such assets on the projects we worked on together.”CANDICE ABELLON
Senior Editor, Optum Now