Sutter Health is abandoning plans for a new $1 billion hospital in Emeryville it had hoped to open in 2033, the company said Friday.
The 200-bed medical center and flagship campus, announced last year, had been meant to replace Sutter’s 300-bed Alta Bates hospital in Berkeley, which the company has said it must close by 2030 to avoid state-required earthquake safety upgrades.
The healthcare giant, which operates 26 hospitals across California, said it instead plans to open outpatient centers in two buildings it owns on the 12-acre site at Horton and 53rd Street in Emeryville, and search elsewhere in the East Bay for a future hospital…