One of Northern California’s largest health care providers has plans to build two medical campuses, as patient overflow is straining Silicon Valley emergency rooms with long wait times and life-threatening delays.
Sutter Health is investing $800 million to renovate two large, vacant offices in Santa Clara into non-hospital, outpatient rooms for a range of medical services across 1 million square feet. The facilities will be less than a mile away from each other just off Great America Parkway. Services are expected to include primary and specialty care, imaging, lab and diagnostic services, ambulatory surgery and more.
Company officials told San José Spotlight they’re taking a staged approach to opening the two campuses, as they’re still going through the approval process with Santa Clara.
“It will go through all the appropriate approvals to ensure we’re complying,” Kevin Cook, Sutter Health’s Silicon Valley division president, told San José Spotlight.
Services will start rolling out as early as late 2025, with the aim to have everything operational by 2031 at the latest. The company plans to hire 200 to 300 physicians and advanced practice clinicians every year until 2030.