• Alta Bates Summit Medical Center
• Samuel Merritt University
• Hawthorne Avenue
• Broadway
• North Oakland
• Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center

Pill Hill is the colloquial name — and now official neighborhood designation — for the elevated residential and medical district in North Oakland centered on the concentration of hospitals and healthcare facilities that have occupied its prominent hill since the early 20th century. The neighborhood's medical identity took shape circa 1907 as the hill's elevated position, away from the flatland fog, made it a preferred location for medical facilities in an era when elevation and air quality were considered critical to patient recovery. Alta Bates Summit Medical Center — part of the Sutter Health network and one of the largest acute care hospitals in the East Bay — anchors the neighborhood's medical corridor on Hawthorne Avenue, a facility whose roots trace to the original Alta Bates Sanitarium founded by nurse Alta Bates in Berkeley in 1905 and the former Summit and Herrick hospitals that merged to form the current institution. Samuel Merritt University — a health sciences university on Hawthorne Avenue offering nursing, occupational therapy, and physician assistant programs — is the neighborhood's most significant educational institution and reinforces Pill Hill's identity as the East Bay's primary healthcare education cluster. That concentration of medical and educational institutions is the foundation of the MY-NHD Pill Hill collection.