Sutter Health announced a transformational plan to expand access to its comprehensive, integrated and coordinated high-quality care across the greater East Bay region. As part of this phased approach, Sutter will construct a flagship campus in the City of Emeryville featuring a regional destination ambulatory care complex and a new medical center with an initial capacity of up to 200 beds and room for future expansion. The plan prioritizes recruiting primary care and specialty physicians, reducing barriers for patients when scheduling appointments and obtaining referrals for care, and investing in programs and partnerships to strengthen the healthcare workforce.
Sutter announced it is investing more than $1 billion to expand services across the East Bay, ensuring patients will be able to conveniently reach comprehensive care within a 15-minute drive from home or work. At the heart of this regional expansion is the newly acquired, 12-acre Sutter Emeryville Campus at Horton and 53rd streets, which will serve as a key healthcare destination.
When complete, the new medical campus (approximately 1.3 million sq. ft.) in the heart of Emeryville will offer outpatient services at two existing buildings (approximately 530,000 sq. ft.) at 5555 Hollis Street and 5300 Chiron Street plus acute care services at a newly constructed medical center adjacent to the Hollis Street property. The Sutter Emeryville campus will also offer medical office space and parking at an existing 1,992-space parking garage.
Key Features of the Sutter Emeryville Campus
– – A new ambulatory care complex offering hospital-based outpatient clinics (neuroscience, rheumatology, pulmonary, dermatology, non-chemotherapy infusion), orthopedic center, physical therapy, ophthalmology, women’s center, pediatrics, digestive diseases and surgery, OB/GYN graduate medical education clinic, urology, ear, nose and throat (ENT), audiology, endoscopy center, urgent care, imaging and laboratory. The first ambulatory patients are expected as early as 2028.
– – Destination advanced centers in neuroscience, orthopedics, women’s health, primary care, urgent care, imaging, and other specialty clinics.
– – Approximately 190 primary and specialty care clinicians.
– – A new medical center (approximately 335,000 sq. ft.) with up to 200 beds is slated to include labor and delivery, neonatal intensive care, an ICU, emergency services, imaging services, operating rooms, private patient rooms and additional space for future bed expansion. The target opening for the new medical center is 2032-2033. When it opens, the new Emeryville medical center will replace the acute care services at 2450 Ashby Ave. in Berkeley. The Ashby campus will be reimagined to encompass an ambulatory surgery center, urgent care clinic, and possibly skilled nursing services. These new services offered in Berkeley will complete the integrated care continuum in the East Bay.
The Alta Bates campus will remain an acute care facility until the new medical center is built about 2.5 miles away in Emeryville. Once the new medical center opens, Sutter Health will reimagine the campus to feature an ambulatory surgery center, urgent care services and possibly skilled nursing. Convenient, on-site resources – including diagnostic labs, blood draw stations, advanced imaging technologies and treatment areas – will continue to provide care close to home for patients in Berkeley.
Sutter plans to expand behavioral health at the Herrick campus in Berkeley. Patients will access acute, crisis and outpatient care tailored to meet the needs of people with mental health conditions and substance use disorders, while ensuring specialized care for those with the most complex and serious conditions.
Renovation of a 10,000 sq. ft. medical office building at 3075 Adeline Street, across from the Ashby BART station, is already underway. This 20-exam-room primary care facility will also offer dedicated OB/GYN services. It will be staffed by 10 providers and is slated to open in the Spring 2025.
In Oakland, the Summit campus of Alta Bates Summit Medical Center already offers advanced centers dedicated to cancer care, heart and vascular care and other specialties. The campus will also be home to the $400 million Stanford Medicine Sutter Health Cancer Center when it opens in November 2026. The five story, 167,000 sq. ft. building is currently under construction and will bring advanced cancer care to the East Bay, offering infusion services, outpatient clinics, imaging, radiation oncology and an ambulatory surgery center.
Renovations are planned for the emergency departments at Oakland’s Summit campus and Castro Valley’s Sutter Eden Medical Center to accommodate more patients.