Rally To Save Alta Bates Summit Medical Center

BERKELEY, CA — Nurses and community members attended a rally in Berkeley Sunday to protest Sutter Health's proposed closure of Alta Bates Summit Medical Center.

The event, dubbed a "stroller brigade," took place midday at Alta Bates Medical Center on Ashby Avenue.

Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin, Ethel Long-Scott, Executive Director of the Women's Economic Agenda Project and Rochelle Pardue-Okimoto, an El Cerrito City Councilmember and RN, were among the scheduled speakers, according to the California Nurses Association, which organized the event.

"The medical center is the city's only acute care medical facility. Shutting it down would not be good for patients," said Martha Wallner of National Nurses United.

— Bay City News; Image via Shutterstock

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