Alta Bates Summit Medical Center

What Alta Bates Summit Medical Center does

Alta Bates Summit Medical Center is a not-for-profit acute care hospital system operating as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sutter Health, an integrated Northern California health care delivery network. The medical center serves the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area across four campuses: Summit Campus in Oakland, the Alta Bates Campus in Berkeley, the Herrick Campus, and the Hawthorne facility. It provides comprehensive hospital services including emergency medicine, surgical procedures, specialty care, and outpatient services to a broad patient population across insured, uninsured, Medicare, and Medi-Cal payer categories. Patient access is delivered through emergency departments, urgent and walk-in care, scheduled appointments, physician referrals, and digital channels including the My Health Online patient portal and on-demand Video Visits telehealth.

The center has adopted advanced medical technology platforms that differentiate its clinical offering. It operates the FDA-cleared da Vinci single-port surgical system for nipple-sparing mastectomies, becoming the first community hospital in the United States outside a clinical trial to perform robotic single-port nipple-sparing mastectomy, using a single axillary incision in place of traditional incisions of up to 8 inches and potentially preserving 95% of breast-skin sensation and 55% of nipple sensation. The Emergency Department has deployed the FDA-cleared FloPatch wireless wearable Doppler ultrasound device for fluid responsiveness assessment in patients with undifferentiated shock, cardiac dysfunction, or renal impairment, producing carotid flow time measurement in under three minutes and recognized by CMS as valid documentation for SEP-1 fluid reassessment. A $2 million da Vinci system (donated by philanthropist Peter Read and named 'Carol') supports the robotic surgery program.

The business model is a not-for-profit, fee-for-service acute care hospital model consolidated within Sutter Health. Revenue mechanics follow standard hospital pricing: charges are published as required under federal transparency rules (CSV files including discounted cash prices and negotiated rates effective December 2023), and a Cost Estimator Tool provides out-of-pocket estimates for frequently used medical services. Because Alta Bates Summit Medical Center is a non-profit subsidiary of Sutter Health, individual entity revenue is not publicly disclosed. Pricing is set within the Sutter Health integrated network structure rather than through standalone commercial contracts, and the go-to-market motion is direct patient and physician-referral access across the four regional campuses rather than enterprise sales.

Name

Alta Bates Summit Medical Center

Legal name

Alta Bates Summit Medical Center

Website

https://sutterhealth.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

5,001–10,000 employees

Short description

Alta Bates Summit Medical Center is a not-for-profit, four-campus acute care hospital in the East Bay (Oakland, Berkeley) operating within the Sutter Health network, serving broad insured, Medicare, Medi-Cal, and emergency patient populations with advanced robotic surgery, digital patient portal, and telehealth services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Acute Care Hospital Services

NAICS

General Medical and Surgical Hospitals (622110), General Medical and Surgical Hospitals (62211), Outpatient Care Centers (6214)

SIC

Services-Hospitals (8060), Services-General Medical & Surgical Hospitals, Nec (8062), Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Independent Diagnostic Testing Facilities (IDTFs) & Multi-Specialty Diagnostic Centers (HLAFAKAN)

Keywords

• Acute care hospital
• Emergency medical services
• Robotic surgery
• Telehealth services
• Specialty surgical care

Headquarters

HQ city

Oakland

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Operations, Others

Distribution channels1 record

Core offering

Alta Bates Summit Medical Center is a not-for-profit, multi-campus acute care hospital system within the Sutter Health network that provides comprehensive hospital, specialty, surgical, and outpatient healthcare services across four East Bay campuses (Oakland and Berkeley). It delivers emergency care, advanced surgical procedures (including FDA-cleared da Vinci single-port robotic mastectomies), point-of-care diagnostics (FloPatch wireless ultrasound), telehealth video visits, and a digital patient portal (My Health Online) to patients in Northern California.

Product overview

Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, part of Sutter Health, operates as a multi-campus acute care medical center (with Summit Campus, Alta Bates Campus, Herrick Campus, and Hawthorne Campus locations) offering digital health services through its My Health Online patient portal, advanced robotic surgical procedures using the FDA-cleared da Vinci single-port surgical system for nipple-sparing mastectomies, point-of-care diagnostic devices including the FDA-cleared FloPatch wireless Doppler ultrasound, and telehealth services through Video Visits. The medical center provides comprehensive hospital services including emergency care, urgent care, walk-in care, and specialty services across the Sutter Health network.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• My Health Online Digital patient portal enabling patients to make appointments, message their doctor, view test results, access cost estimates, and manage their healthcare through web and mobile applications.
• Video Visits On-demand video visit service allowing patients to connect with healthcare providers online for same-day care needs.
• Acute Care Hospital Services Comprehensive hospital, specialty, surgical, and outpatient healthcare services delivered across four campuses (Summit Campus in Oakland, Hawthorne, Alta Bates Campus in Berkeley, and Herrick Campus) for patients in the East Bay region of Northern California.
• Emergency and Walk-In Care Emergency Department care along with Urgent Care and Walk-In Care services for patients needing same-day or immediate care.
• Robotic Single-Port Nipple-Sparing Mastectomy Surgical procedure for breast cancer treatment or prevention using the da Vinci Single-Port Surgical System, with a single armpit incision potentially preserving 95% of breast-skin sensation and 55% of nipple sensation.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• UCSF Health: Major academic medical center serving the Bay Area with comprehensive specialty, surgical, and emergency services. Competes for tertiary referrals and complex surgical cases including oncology across Northern California.
• Tenet Healthcare: National for-profit hospital operator with a portfolio of acute care hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers. Comparable in offering multi-specialty surgical services and investing in advanced technology platforms across hospital sites.
• HCA Healthcare: Largest for-profit hospital operator in the United States with significant presence across multiple states. Comparable as a multi-hospital operator with standardized technology adoption, clinical workflows, and scale-driven procurement advantages.
• Stanford Health Care: Academic medical center with flagship hospital in Palo Alto providing advanced specialty and surgical care. Competes for high-acuity cases and complex oncology referrals from across Northern California, including the East Bay.
• CommonSpirit Health: Large not-for-profit Catholic health system operating hospitals across the US. Comparable as a major not-for-profit health system with similar capital structure, mission-driven operations, and reliance on philanthropy for technology investments.

Regional players

• Washington Hospital Healthcare System: Community-owned district hospital system serving southern Alameda County. Competes for East Bay patient volume with comparable acute care and emergency services, though at smaller scale.
• El Camino Health: Not-for-profit community hospital system serving the South Bay / Peninsula region of Northern California. Comparable as a multi-campus community hospital network with advanced surgical capabilities and integrated digital tools.

Direct peers

• Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center: Major integrated payer-provider medical center located in Oakland, directly overlapping Alta Bates Summit's primary service area. Comparable as a large acute care hospital serving the same East Bay population with comprehensive inpatient and outpatient services.
• John Muir Health: Not-for-profit community-based health system serving Contra Costa and eastern Alameda counties with multiple hospital campuses. Directly comparable as a multi-campus East Bay community hospital competing for the same patient population and payer mix.
• California Pacific Medical Center (Sutter Health): Sibling Sutter Health hospital serving San Francisco with multi-campus acute care, specialty, and surgical services. Operates under the same parent and shares technology platforms (including Sutter's digital health tools), making it a near-perfect operational and strategic peer.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/SutterHealth
• YouTubeyoutube.com/sutterhealth
• Facebookfacebook.com/SutterHealth
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/sutter-health
• Instagraminstagram.com/sutterhealth

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Subsidiaries4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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