Sutter Health and Santa Clara University announced the launch of the Mark & Mary Stevens School of Medicine, establishing the first new medical school in California’s San Francisco Bay Area in more than a century. The school is being funded in part by a $175 million gift from Santa Clara alumna Mary (Mathews) Stevens and her husband, venture capitalist Mark Stevens, who, along with their children, are multi-decade Sutter Health patients.
This latest gift represents the largest-ever cash gift to Catholic higher education, and the largest gift ever to either Santa Clara or Sutter Health. The launch event took place at the site of the school’s future campus, an 82,000-square-foot facility under construction five miles from Santa Clara University’s historic mission campus and adjacent to the Sutter East Santa Clara Campus in Silicon Valley. On Sutter’s West Santa Clara Campus, the health system plans to open a major new 272-bed, eight-story medical center by 2031.
The partnership between healthcare and higher education is among the first of its kind, bringing together a nationally recognized integrated healthcare system with a broad clinical and graduate medical education footprint and a leading national private university. Sutter Health currently serves more than 3.5 million patients and has more than 30 existing physician residency and fellowship training programs. Sutter expects to train approximately 575 residents and fellows in 39 accredited graduate-level programs by the end of 2027.
Founded in 1851, Santa Clara University’s mission is grounded in a Jesuit tradition of service. Unlike many emerging medical schools that must establish clinical training relationships across multiple organizations, the new school will be embedded within Sutter’s not-for-profit integrated healthcare system. California Governor Gavin Newsom, a 1989 Santa Clara alumnus, praised the partnership: “By embedding students directly in a leading, integrated healthcare system, this new medical school is breaking down silos between education, training, and care—and that’s how you expand access, strengthen the workforce for tomorrow, and deliver better outcomes for patients.”
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