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Posted: 18-Apr-26
Location: Berkeley, California
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Internal Number: 2026-4947
Opportunity Information
Alta Bates Summit Medical Center is home to the largest and most complex hospitalist program in Sutter East Bay, serving as a regional referral center for high-acuity medical, surgical, oncologic, and specialty care across multiple campuses.
Our hospitalists are the clinical backbone of the medical center-caring for the majority of hospitalized patients, co-managing complex surgical and subspecialty populations, and partnering closely with nursing, case management, specialists, and hospital leadership to drive quality, flow, and patient experience.
This role offers the opportunity to practice high-acuity inpatient medicine within a large, well-supported, and highly collaborative group, with exposure to teaching, quality improvement, and program development. Physicians join a mature division with strong operational infrastructure, engaged physician leadership, and a culture that values clinical excellence, teamwork, and professional growth.
Hospitalists at Alta Bates Summit care for a diverse and medically complex patient population and play a central role in advancing system-wide initiatives in quality, safety, efficiency, and care redesign. Opportunities exist for leadership development, academic engagement, and participation in innovative inpatient programs as part of one of Northern California?s leading integrated health systems.
Department Highlights:
- Schedule flexibility
- Excellent group culture and camaraderie
- Wide range of supportive consultants
- Good relationship with hospital leadership
Qualifications
- Board Certified/Board Eligible
- Possess an active and unrestricted California Medical License prior to employment
- DEA license, prior to employment
- IM/FM physicians considered
Organization Details
Sutter East Bay Medical Group (SEBMG)
- Recognized for its excellence in compassionate, patient-centered care
- Received multiple awards for our quality, innovation, and leadership
- Multidisciplinary group including physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistant and certified nurse midwives
- 25+ specialties throughout Alameda and Contra Costa Counties
- Support and encourage leadership and advancement opportunities
Community Information
Berkeley is a vibrant and dynamic city that is consummately Californian in setting, international in cultural outlook, and filled with superb restaurants, shops, theaters, and cafes. Berkeley has a creative scene that extends from the performing and visual to the culinary arts. In the East Bay, Berkeley is a stylish arts and entertainment destination. Berkeley is a town with live theater and music almost every night and its theatrical and cultural venues keep the arts front and center, citywide and year-round. Berkeley is also known for its food. Berkeley is passionate about cuisine, and it shows on the menus of the city's innovative, influential restaurants, inside the dozens of specialty food stores and stands that line its avenues, and at the trio of weekly farmers markets in town. With so many cultural and culinary experiences to savor indoors, Berkeley also has many ways to enjoy the great outdoors. The city extends from San Francisco Bay into a forested coastal range, offering hiking and biking trails that run along the bay and up into the city's landmark regional parks. People can enjoy sailing, rock climbing, kayaking, windsurfing, skateboarding, golf, and beautiful gardens. Berkeley is also careful to honor and celebrate its past with dozens of historic monuments and architectural treasures. For sports fans, Berkeley is home to the Cal Bears and within easy reach of a number of professional sports teams, including the 2022 National Champions Golden State Warriors, Oakland A's, San Francisco Giants, and San Francisco 49ers.
Oakland's landscape is a picturesque mix of lovely hillside neighborhoods; exciting and diverse architecture; a bustling waterfront; two shimmering lakes; 19 miles of shoreline along the San Francisco Bay; unparalleled Bay views; and more parks and open space per capita than any other city in the Bay Area. Everyone loves our year round vacation weather with temperatures in the gentle 50's and 60's in the winter and spring, and 70's throughout summer and fall. A city on the move, Oakland has emerged as a major economic force in the region. Long a center for international trade, the Port of Oakland is the nation's fourth busiest container port in the Bay Area. The Oakland International Airport is served by 12 major domestic and international airlines. Getting around is easy by train, automobile, BART, bus and ferry. The arts are alive in Oakland. Oakland has one of the largest visual and performing arts communities on the West Coast, and the arts are celebrated on every level here, from acclaimed symphony and ballet to museums, galleries, and small arts organizations. Oakland is just 3 hours from the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and hours drive to the Napa Valley wine country. The BART metro system makes it easy to get around without a car. For sports fans, Oakland is home to professional sports team, Oakland A's.
Equal Opportunity Statement
It is the policy of the Sutter East Bay Medical Group (SEBMG) to provide equal employment for all qualified individuals; to prohibit discrimination in employment because of race, color, creed, religion, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, ancestry, national origin, age, medical condition, disability or status as a veteran or a disabled veteran. We promote the full realization of equal employment opportunities through a positive continuing program within our service area. Equal employment opportunities apply to every aspect of SEBMG?s employment policies and practices
