![]() In 1867, Merritt donated to the city of Oakland the wetlands now known as Lake Merritt. Samuel Merritt (1822–1890) was a successful San Francisco physician and also the 13th mayor of Oakland, California from 1867 to 1869. The Summit Campus of Alta Bates Summit Medical Center was previously three separately owned and operated facilities located in the same "Pill Hill" neighborhood, generally bounded by Broadway, Telegraph Avenue and the 580 (Macarthur) freeway, immediately north of downtown Oakland: Providence Hospital (founded in 1904 by the Sisters of Providence ), Peralta Hospital (founded by local Oakland doctors in the 1920s) and Samuel Merritt Hospital. The site is now known as the Herrick Campus of Alta Bates Summit Medical Center. The joint organization, spanning both sites, was briefly named Alta Bates Herrick Hospital but became Alta Bates Medical Center in 1992. Herrick Memorial Hospital formally affiliated with Alta Bates Hospital in 1984 and fully merged in 1988. Further improvements and expansions continued through the ensuing decades. In 1945, the hospital was again renamed Herrick Memorial Hospital, in honor of its founder. The original Roosevelt Hospital building was demolished to accommodate additional wings and facilities which were added over time. Herrick died, and his heirs converted the hospital into a non-profit corporation. (President Roosevelt was an early proponent of a government-supported national public health system.) The Roosevelt Hospital was expanded to 50 beds by 1924, and renamed Berkeley General Hospital. He converted the large home into a 25-bed hospital which he chose to name for President Theodore Roosevelt whom he admired. LeRoy Francis Herrick, a graduate of the Kentucky College of Medicine (1893), purchased a Berkeley mansion known as the Hume House, located on the same block upon which the current Herrick Campus is situated, between Dwight and Channing Ways, and Milvia and Grove (now Martin Luther King Way). Īlta Bates Hospital, later renamed Alta Bates Medical Center until its merger with Summit Medical Center in 1999, is now known as the Alta Bates Campus of Alta Bates Summit Medical Center. Until her retirement in 1949, Bates served as the hospital's director and was president of its board. The first graduate of a nurse training program in Eureka, California, she was among the first female anesthetists in the San Francisco Bay Area, administering over 14,000 anesthetics during her career. Bates was a prominent early California nurse anesthetist. The flagship Berkeley campus of the medical center was named after Alta Miner Bates, the nurse who founded the hospital in 1905. Alta Bates Summit is a non-profit community-based medical center and is part of Sutter Health. Its three hospital campuses are located in Berkeley (Alta Bates Campus, Herrick Campus) and Oakland (Summit Campus). Sutter Health Alta Bates Summit Medical Center is located in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area. If there are any corrections needed for our statements, please reach out to We are striving to practice cultural humility and accountability as an agency.Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, Summit Campus in Oakland, California As an agency, we hope to continue to uncover buried truths and build relationships based on mutual respect and connection. We pay respects to their elders past and present. As a children's mental health agency, it is important for us to know this history, its effects, and honor the spirit, resilience and strength of these communities–each holding their distinct language and cultural practices. Yet, they continue to face systematic injustice today. The Muwekma Ohlone Tribe and the Confederated Villages of Lisjan have made tremendous efforts to re-integrate their tribal identity into the Bay Area as part of a cultural revitalization movement. For the past 300 years, they have been violently displaced, faced cultural genocide, and forced to assimilate into mainstream society. Over a period of 150 years, 95% of the population was eliminated. Before European contact, the native population in CA used to be one of the highest in North America. They are the original owners and caretakers of the greater San Francisco Bay Area and have continued to care and protect their land today. BACA would like to honor the Muwekma Ohlone (pronounced mah-wek-mah oh loh nee) territory and peoples as well as the Confederated Villages of Lisjan.
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