Sutter Health demonstrates their unwavering commitment to the San Jose Community through their investment of the San Jose Chamber of Commerce as a Chair’s Circle Member and presenting sponsor of the 2025 Annual BBQ.
Vision and Purpose: Transforming Health Care Access in Silicon Valley
Sutter Health has announced plans to build a new hospital on a 13.63-acre site near Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, continuing its more than 100-year legacy of caring for Northern Californians. Currently, Santa Clara residents must travel outside the city for hospital services, creating barriers to timely, lifesaving care. Families will be able to access a full continuum of services, including emergency and intensive care, without leaving their community. Services are expected to include labor and delivery, neonatal intensive care, an ICU, emergency services, operating rooms and private patient rooms. The medical center is expected to open in late 2031.
Integrated Ecosystem: A Connected, Patient-Centered Care Destination
A key part of Sutter’s goal to coordinate care and serve more patients is making it easier for people to receive care when and where they need it, whether in a hospital, urgent care center, doctor’s office, diagnostic facility or other setting. The new hospital in Santa Clara will help close a gap in hospital care availability in Silicon Valley and offer a full range of integrated services. The community will benefit from a connected, integrated regional ecosystem that includes hospital care, primary and specialty services, mental health care, testing and more, all nearby. Sutter aims to deliver the most personalized experience possible, supported by advanced technology and digital tools.
Sutter is also leading efforts to integrate mental health services into primary care through its Collaborative Care Model. This approach strengthens communication between primary care providers, psychiatric consultants and care coordinators to support holistic health. Serene, contemporary spaces, including gathering areas and healing gardens, will be created for patients, providers and staff to promote community, holistic healing and an exceptional care experience.
Community Impact: Expanding Access, Empowering Communities
Access to health care remains a challenge for many patients in California and beyond. Sutter Health is working to help change that. Eight million Californians live in areas experiencing primary care shortages. In 2025, an estimated 2.3 million new health care workers are needed to meet national demand. Sutter currently serves nearly 1 million patients in Greater Silicon Valley and aims to care for 1.3 million by 2030.
Sutter’s efforts to expand care capacity and close gaps in access include: Growing its Northern California care delivery system with plans to open more than 30 new ambulatory care centers, 24 new urgent care centers and 22 ambulatory surgery centers in the coming years.Sutter is expanding primary and specialty care capacity in several existing locations. New offices have recently opened in Blossom Hill, Los Gatos, Milpitas and Morgan Hill, with additional medical offices planned in communities such as San Jose.
Sutter is on pace to become the largest community-based health care training institution in Northern California. Developing workforce programs that create clear paths for students pursuing careers in health care. In Santa Clara, Sutter is collaborating with Mission College on nursing pathways and a new bachelor’s degree in emergency services administration. Creating academic partnerships to cultivate clinical talent that reflects the diversity of the communities served. This includes a multi-year partnership with Charles Drew University, a historically Black medical college, to fund 50 full scholarships. Sutter is also collaborating with Stanford, UCSF, San Francisco State, California Health Sciences University, UC Davis and others to grow academic programs and train more physicians to deliver high-quality care.
Sutter invests in community health programs that extend care beyond its facilities. Through collaboration with partners, Sutter aims to create lasting impact and improve access for California’s most vulnerable and underserved communities. For example, Sutter Health has provided financial support to Bay Area Community Health clinics in San Jose. This funding has helped extend clinic hours to accommodate working families, retrofit mobile clinics to include optometry services and support the development of a new clinic to address a broader range of medical and behavioral health needs. Sutter is also investing in the broader Silicon Valley community, including a multi-year sponsorship of Bay FC, the first Northern California franchise in the National Women’s Soccer League.