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.

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 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.