Sutter Health announced a $1 billion plan Wednesday to build a new flagship campus and medical center in Emeryville as part of an East Bay expansion. The health care giant’s new campus, which will be located on 12-acres at Horton and 53rd streets,

Sutter Health has acquired the 12-acre Emery Yards Campus for a new $1 Billion, 1.3 million sq. ft., Medical Center.

Sutter Health announced a $1 billion plan Wednesday to build a flagship campus and medical center near I-80 in Emeryville that will provide an initial 200 beds and almost as many clinicians by 2033. 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.