Alta Bates Campus The flagship Berkeley campus of the medical center was named after Alta Miner Bates, the nurse who founded the hospital in 1905. Bates was a prominent early California nurse anesthetist.

Is Alta Bates a good hospital?

In Oakland, Alta Bates Summit Medical Center-Oakland made the Top 10 List of best hospitals in the San Francisco Bay Area. … The hospital rankings for 2019-20 include the honor roll, top ranked hospitals in 12 specialty categories and the top ranked hospitals by state and metro region.

Who owns Summit hospital?

Jeffrey Le Benger, M.D. An innovator and visionary, Jeffrey Le Benger is the chief executive officer of Summit Health, the physician-led, patient-centric network formed by the 2019 merger between Summit Medical Group, a multispecialty physician group, and CityMD, an urgent care provider.