Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health may close Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Berkeley, Calif., before January 2030, according to a Berkeley Daily Planet report.
California law requires medical facilities in the state to meet certain seismic standards by Jan. 1, 2030. Alta Bates currently does not meet the required standards, and the system currently does not have plans to retrofit the campus. "The neighborhood has also consistently opposed our construction projects and this makes it virtually impossible to construct a new campus on the existing hospital site,"Stacey Wells, director of public affairs at Sutter Health, told Berkeleyside.
However, Ms. Wells said no long-term decisions have been made regarding the facility. "We will keep our staff, patients and community informed once we have something more concrete to share," she told Berkeleyside.
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