Summit Medical Center, Oakland, Calif.

Modern Healthcare, November, 1999 by Bellandi, Deanna

Attorneys for two of the largest hospitals in the San Francisco Bay area went to the mat with state officials last week in a classic antitrust battle over a controversial merger.

During a weeklong trial in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, the hospitals and the state painted widely differing market pictures, and one hospital claimed it would be a death sentence for it if the merger didn't proceed.

Now the fate of the proposed merger between 420-bed Summit Medical Center, Oakland, and 555-bed Alta Bates Medical Center, Berkeley, part of Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health System, rests in the hands of U.S. District Judge Maxine Chesney.

The trial for a preliminary injunction to block the merger was expected to wrap up with closing...

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