Sutter Health is sinking $10 million into a major renovation of a medical office building next to its Santa Rosa regional hospital, aiming to beef up specialty care and on-site imaging for Sonoma County patients. The project will pull orthopedic and podiatry services into a larger top-floor suite and add exam rooms to relieve pressure on an already busy outpatient system. Neighbors and regular patients can expect a year of carefully staged moves as clinics shuffle around and new capacity opens in phases.
The work centers on a three-story building beside Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital at 34 Mark West Springs Road and involves an interior makeover of roughly 10,000 square feet that Sutter says will be reconfigured to handle dozens of visits daily. Sutter lists the property on its locations page and says services will be shifted in stages during construction. Groundbreaking was held Dec. 10, 2025. Sutter moved into full occupancy in mid-December, and the medical group expects construction to wrap within about a year, with patient care slated to begin by December 2026, according to The Press Democrat.
More Exam Rooms, New Imaging Suite And Relocated Specialties
As part of the remodel, Sutter plans to open 28 exam rooms and a dedicated X-ray imaging suite while moving its orthopedics and podiatry departments out of an older Airway Drive site and into the building’s top floor. “At full capacity will allow Sutter medical staff to see 600 patients a day,” Felix Torres said, as quoted in The Press Democrat. Senior construction manager Rebecca Plunk told the paper the shift will let Sutter backfill the vacated Airway Drive space and grow imaging services wherever the system sees the most demand.
Who Owns The Building And How It Will Be Used
The three-story office building is owned by Healthcare Realty Trust, which includes the Mark West Springs site in its Santa Rosa portfolio. Sutter has been consolidating services in buildings clustered around the hospital to tighten up referrals and diagnostics for patients who might otherwise bounce between scattered offices. According to Plunk, the new layout fits more exam rooms into a smaller footprint than some of Sutter’s other recent care centers, which is meant to make the space more efficient for specialty visits and imaging workflows.
Part Of A Bigger Push Across The North Bay
The Mark West Springs overhaul is just one piece of a broader North Bay buildout that also included a 17,000-square-foot care center in Rohnert Park in early 2025, offering urgent care, primary care and advanced imaging. That rollout, along with other clinic projects, is designed to keep routine needs out of emergency rooms and closer to neighborhood-level sites, according to Sutter Health. Local leaders say the combination of more clinic space and continued recruiting should gradually improve same-day access for Sonoma County residents…