Sutter Health is moving forward with a $1 billion plan to build a major medical campus in Emeryville, replacing Berkeley’s Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, which is set to shutter by 2030. The 1.3 million-square-foot campus,

The $1 billion Emeryville campus will include a 200-bed hospital. After it opens around 2032, Alta Bates will close its hospital but offer outpatient surgery, an urgent care clinic and possibly skilled nursing.

The move comes nearly a decade after the health care giant warned that its Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Berkeley would shutter by 2030 because state-mandated seismic upgrades were infeasible for the 120-year-old complex — stirring fears of a “hospital desert” in the East Bay.

Sutter Health is set to invest $1 billion in a new medical campus in Emeryville, featuring state-of-the-art facilities, including a flagship hospital and outpatient services, aimed to serve the growing healthcare needs of the East Bay.

Sutter Health is investing $1B to expand its services across the East Bay, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.