Alta Bates Summit Medical Center

Alta Bates Summit is a non-profit community-based medical center and is part of Sutter Health.

The flagship Berkeley campus of the medical center was named after Alta Miner Bates, the nurse who founded the hospital in 1905.

The first graduate of a nurse training program in Eureka, California, she was among the first female anesthetists in the San Francisco Bay Area, administering over 14,000 anesthetics during her career.

A February 2024 article is here: https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/02/28/berkeley-to-fund-study-on-alta-bates-closure-impact-local-health-needs In 1904, Dr. LeRoy Francis Herrick, a graduate of the Kentucky College of Medicine (1893),[4] purchased a Berkeley mansion known as the Hume House, located on the same block upon which the current Herrick Campus is situated, between Dwight and Channing Ways, and Milvia and Grove (now Martin Luther King Way).

The original Roosevelt Hospital building was demolished to accommodate additional wings and facilities which were added over time.

The Summit Campus of Alta Bates Summit Medical Center was previously three separately owned and operated facilities located in the same "Pill Hill" neighborhood, generally bounded by Broadway, Telegraph Avenue and the 580 (Macarthur) freeway, immediately north of downtown Oakland: Providence Hospital (founded in 1904 by the Sisters of Providence[8]), Peralta Hospital (founded by local Oakland doctors in the 1920s) and Samuel Merritt Hospital.