A rendering of Sutter Health’s new medical campus in Emeryville, which is set to replace Alta Bates Summit Medical Center as an emergency care provider. 

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, slated to fully open by 2033, will initially house 200 beds, with emergency services, intensive care, labor and delivery, outpatient clinics and imaging, the health network said to SFGATE in an email. Sutter acquired a 12-acre site at Horton and 53rd streets to develop the new complex, where outpatient and acute care services are expected to open as early as 2028.

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Berkeley officials have long opposed the closure of Alta Bates, warning it will create a gap in hospital care in the East Bay, which saw increased demand after Doctors Medical Center in San Pablo closed in 2015. Alta Bates, often called the

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