San Antonio Health Care – Simply the Best

New arrivals to San Antonio can find some of the best health care in the world at their fingertips. This international and historic city is home to the finest diagnoses and treatments for the complete spectrum of human disease and frailty. For example, San Antonio can boast of

• An original jumping off point coordinated by the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Texas Health Science Center, studying thousands of women ages 50 to 79 to help reduce coronary heart disease, breast and colorectal cancer and bone fractures among postmenopausal women;
• Two of the largest men’s health/prostate studies in the world led by Dr. Ian Thompson;
• The research team that invented the first stent to hold open clogged arteries, now used in millions of patients;
• Two of the largest children’s hospitals dedicated to saving lives: CHRISTUS Santa Rosa’s Children’s Hospital and Methodist Children’s Hospital.
• The two largest military hospitals in the world – Brooke Army Medical Center at Ft. Sam Houston and Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland
• The largest liver transplant program in Texas, conducted by surgeons at University Hospital and the UT Health Science Center;
• Children’s Cancer Research Center in the South Texas Medical Center;
• The first use of radioactive seed implants to treat breast cancer in the nation performed at Methodist Hospital;
• The Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging team, a part of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, brings together research for longevity and aging studies;
• Innovative orthopedic joint replacement program at CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Medical Center.

San Antonio has an ample “supply” of physicians, dentists and allied health personnel thanks to military and civilian patient care and health education programs at colleges and universities throughout the city, hospital based certificate programs and others; and the schools of medicine, dentistry, nursing, graduate biomedical sciences, and allied health under the umbrella of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

In the private healthcare setting, the Texas Transplant Institute, located at the Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital is the largest kidney transplant service in Texas. The first Medicare approved heart transplants were also performed in this nationally respected institution.

Major Facilities

The health care and biomedical industry in San Antonio employs many, many thousands of people. The sprawling South Texas Medical Center in northwest San Antonio includes the publicly funded University Hospital and its Level One Trauma Center and branches of the city’s three major hospitals, Methodist Healthcare, Baptist Health System and CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Health Care. Also in the Medical Center are the Audie L. Murphy Memorial Veteran’s Hospital, the Cancer Therapy and Research Center, San Antonio Warm Springs Rehabilitation Hospital, Clarity Child Guidance Center, and many other clinics, offices and agencies.

Nursing care facilities and home health services are plentiful and many include state-of-the-art care for patients suffering from Alzheimer’s and other dementias.

The Military Presence

The South Texas Veterans Health Care System offers full service inpatient care at the Audie L. Murphy Hospital and outpatient care in numerous programs;

BAMC (Brooke Army) at Ft. Sam Houston is probably best known for its burn unit;

Wilford Hall at Joint Base – Lackland Air Force Base

Finding Your Doctor or Dentist

There is no need to travel away from San Antonio for the latest health care of any kind. From gene therapy to correct genetic deficiencies, state-of-the-art prosthetic limbs with fingers that can move on thought command to organ transplantation, studies re-growing replacement teeth, arteries and other body parts, San Antonio is at the forefront of the human health care “industry.”

San Antonio Metro Area Hospitals

(Area Code 210 unless otherwise noted)

Baptist Health Care
Baptist Medical Center	111 Dallas St 78205	297-7000	Gen Acute
North Central Baptist	520 Madison Oak 78258	297-4000	Gen Acute
Northeast Baptist	8811 Village Drive 78217	297-2000	Gen Acute
St. Luke’s Baptist	7930 Floyd Curl 78229	297-5000	Gen Acute
Southeast Baptist	4214 E. Southcross 78222	297-3000	Gen Acute
CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Health Care
CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Downtown	333 N. Santa Rosa St 78207	704-2011	Gen Hospital
CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Children’s	333 N. Santa Rosa St 78207	704-2011	Chldr’ns Acute
CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Medical Ctr	2827 Babcock Rd 78229 333 N. Santa Rosa St 78207	705-6300	Acute Care
Guadalupe Valley	1215 E. Court, Seguin 78155	(830) 379-2411	Gen Acute
HealthSouth RIOSA	9119 Cinnamon Hill 78240	691-0737	Rehabilitation
IHS	7310 Oak Manor 78229	308-0261	Sub Acute
Kindred	3636 Medical Dr 78229	616-0616	Acute Care
Laurel Ridge	17720 Corporate Woods 78259	491-9400	Psychiatric
LifeCare	8201 Ewing Halsell 78229	692-8080	Acute
McKenna Health System
McKenna Memorial	600 N. Union, New Braunfels 78130	(830) 606-9111	Gen Acute
Methodist Health Care
Methodist	7700 Floyd Curl Dr 78229	575-4000	Acute Care
Methodist Heart	7700 Floyd Curl Dr 78229	575-4000	Heart
Methodist Children's	7700 Floyd Curl 78229	575-7000	Acute Care
Methodist Ambulatory & Surgery	9150 Huebner Rd 78240	225-0496	Outpatient
Methodist Specialty & Transplant	8026 Floyd Curl 78229	692-8110	Acute Care
Metropolitan Methodist	1310 McCullough 78212	208-2200	Acute Care
Northeast Methodist	12412 Judson Rd 78233	650-4949	Acute Care
Mission Vista	14747 Jones Maltsberger 78248	490-0000	Psych Sub Abuse
Southwest General	7400 Barlite Blvd 78224	921-2000	General
Southwest Mental Health	8535 Tom Slick Dr 78229	616-0300	Psychiatric
Starlite Village	Centerpoint 78010	(830) 634-2212	Chemical Rec
Texsan Heart Hospital	6700 IH-10 West, 78201	736-6700	Heart
University Health System	4502 Medical Dr 78229	358-4000	Trauma
Warm Springs Rehabilitation	5101 Medical Dr 78229	616-0100	Rehab
Wilson Memorial	1301 Hospital Blvd, Floresville 78114	(830) 393-3122	Med/Surgical
Federal & State Hospitals
Audie L Murphy Veterans	7400 Merton Minter Blvd 78284	617-5300	Acute Care
Brooke Army Medical Center	Ft Sam Houston 78234	916-4141	Acute Care
TX Center for Infectious Diseases	2308 SE Military Dr	534-8857	Infect. Disease
San Antonio State	6711 S. New Braunfels 78223	532-8811	Psychiatric
Wilford Hall Medical Center	Lackland AFB 78236	292-7100	Acute Care