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History Timeline by Decade

Sutter Delta Medical Center’s Cardiovascular Interventional Laboratory is recognized with honors as part of Contra Costa County’s Award Winning STEMI Program.
Sutter Delta Medical Center opens East Contra Costa County’s first multimillion dollar Advanced Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine Center.
The medical center’s Imaging Department receives national accreditation as an Advanced Medical Imaging and Diagnostic Center with the capabilities of providing CT Scans, MRI, Ultrasounds, and much more.

Sutter Delta Medical Center installs a high-tech Infant Security System in the Family Birth Center.
Phase two of the Emergency Departments $1.6 million expansion project is completed, adding 16 beds to the emergency department, and two additional private treatment areas.
Sutter Delta Medical Center expanded telemetry capabilities by adding 12 additional monitoring beds.
The medical center launches high-tech bar-coding technology to ensure safe delivery of medication to patients.
The hospital opens a new cardiac electrophysiology program.
Sutter Health and Sutter Delta Medical Center invest $250,000 for a digital operating suite.
The medical center’s Family and Birthing Center opens new Special Intensive Care Nursery (NICU) and Pediatric Unit.
With help from the fundraising efforts of the Delta Memorial Foundation, Sutter Delta Medical Center opens East Contra Costa County's only multimillion dollar Cardiovascular Interventional Laboratory.

Delta Memorial Hospital opens East Contra Costa County’s only state-of-the-art Family Birthing and Women’s Health Center including nine large private labor and deliver suites, each equipped with Jacuzzi tubs, eight private recovery rooms, a special cesarean section recovery suite and and a nursery.
Delta Memorial Hospital becomes part of the Sutter Health Network and changes name to Sutter Delta Medical Center.
Sutter Delta Medical Center opens a $1.7 million cardiac lab, the area’s first and only cardiac lab serving East Contra Costa County.
Sutter Delta Medical Center adds epidural anesthesia and a second anesthesia team, thereby making the medical center’s Family Birthing Center available as a 24-hour service. Very soon after, the medical center reported a record number of deliveries with 755 births for the year.
Sutter Delta Medical Center launches the medical center’s first hospice service.
Sutter Delta Medical Center celebrates its 30th anniversary of service to the East Contra Costa County community. The medical center’s capacity nearly doubled after joining the Sutter Health Network.
Sutter Delta Medical Center launches phase one of the medical center’s Emergency Department expansion and remodeling. The expansion also provided four additional treatment areas.

$1.5 million raised by local community members helps the medical center open a new tower with an additional 66 beds. Delta Memorial Hospital is now a 111 bed medical facility.

Delta Memorial Hospital completes a $3.5 million expansion that adds six beds and four private rooms to the medical center’s Intensive Care and Critical Care Departments.
The expansion as a not-for-profit venture to serve their community also helps expand the medical center’s surgery, imaging and emergency departments, and creates a new business office, lobby, gift shop, dining room and administrative suite.

Antioch Community Hospital becomes Delta Memorial Hospital, which includes one house and cottages.
After three legislative attempts, the not-for-profit receives approval to expand the facility to better serve the growing population in East Contra Costa County.
Fundraising efforts recorded: PG&E gave $171,000, Louisiana Pacific gave $80,000, Du Pont gave $50,000 to help raise the $650,000 needed to expand Delta Memorial Hospital.
Delta Memorial Hospital opens its new and expanded 53 hospital bed facility, staffed with 100 employees. Services included: Pediatrics, Imaging, Physical Therapy, two surgery suites, on-site clinical lab and an emergency room. After only two weeks, the hospital was already at 80 percent capacity.

Eight physicians reopen the Antioch Community Hospital, Inc. as a not-for-profit venture to serve their community.

A “Mr. Adams” purchased the hospital and named it Antioch General Hospital.
The state closes Antioch General Hospital (official records state no specific reason).

Dr. Nivius established the first “Antioch Hospital” that was reportedly a few cottages.