Friday, October 25

Jesse Arreguin

Slide show about closure plans

In February, Mayor Arreguin, Councilmember Sophie Hahn, and elected officials throughout the region provided an update on the status of healthcare in the region. Sutter Health, which operates Berkeley’s Alta Bates, announced in 2016 that they plan on closing down the hospital by 2030. Alta Bates serves as the primary hospital for hundreds of thousands of residents along the I-80 corridor from Richmond to North Oakland, which saw a surge in patients after Doctors Medical Center in San Pablo closed in 2015. It is also colloquially known as the “Birthplace of the East Bay” due to having more births take place there than any other hospital in the East Bay.