In addition, John Muir Health provides outpatient services throughout the community and urgent care centers in Brentwood, Concord, San Ramon and Walnut Creek.
John Muir Medical Center, Concord, is a 244-bed acute care facility that serves Contra Costa and southern Solano counties.
The hospital's orthopedic department includes joint replacement, extremity care, spinal surgery and sports medicine.
[3] The John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek opened in 1965 after the efforts of several local doctors, who received financing in part from a Hill–Burton Act grant.
[4] Concord Hospital was established in 1930, in a modest one-story home at 2334 Almond Avenue (which exists to this day and is used as a private residence).
[8] On January 13, 2022, John Muir Health was sued by Dr. Alicia Kalamas who alleged that institutional failures led to the death of a child and several adult patients.
[10][11] John Muir Health responded to the article stating that the surgery was properly performed and that the child was frail and could have died even under optimal circumstances.
[12] On April 15, 2022, the Medical Board of California launched an investigation of John Muir and its doctors relating to the death of Ailee Jong.