Sutter Health To Open Two Santa Clara Clinics

Sutter Health has announced plans to build out outpatient services in Santa Clara with two large clinics located on Mission College Boulevard.

Developers of two forthcoming clinics in Santa Clara believe the outpatient services offered will help address a growing need for medical care in the region.

In collaboration with Palo Alto Foundation Medical Group (PAFMG) and real estate juggernaut The Sobrato Group, Sutter Health will convert more than 1 million sq. ft. of vacant office space into two treatment campuses. The campuses are less than a mile apart on Mission College Boulevard.

The clinics will provide outpatient treatment ranging from primary and specialty care, labs and diagnostics to imaging and surgery. Accessing quality medical treatment remains one of the area’s most pressing challenges, according to a Sutter Health press release announcing the campuses. The $800 million investment in the two campuses aims to address that challenge.

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Dr. Rebecca Fazilat, a pediatrician at Sutter Health and chair of the PAFMG board, said the demand is so high in the area that patients often wait a month to get an appointment.

“It is really, really hard to get healthcare … [the Bay Area has] a relative lack of personnel to meet our needs,” she said. “If you get hurt, you don’t want to wait for that care.”

In 2023, Sutter Health hired 300 doctors. It plans to hire hundreds more over the next five years.

The development is broken into an east campus and a west campus, each offering distinct services. The 700,000 sq. ft. west campus will offer orthopedics, sports medicine, cancer treatment, women’s health services and heart and vascular care.

The 300,000 sq. ft. east campus will offer primary care, diagnostics, imaging, pediatrics, urgent care and a variety of specialty clinics, including cardiology, neurology, dermatology and urology.

Offering a wide swath of services, Fazilat said, empowers medical professionals to “meet patients where they are.”

“There is nothing harder than telling a patient they have to wait to see a specialist,” she said.

The Sutter Health’s Santa Clara clinics are part of a larger push to increase access to medical treatment across the state. In June, Sutter Health announced it would open a care center in Morgan Hill. The organization plans to open 27 new care centers across Northern California by 2027.

Builders will construct the clinics in phases. Sutter East Santa Clara’s first building is slated to open in the back half of this year.