Health Care - Health Care & Wellness
San Antonio’s medical industry ranks among the best in Texas and in the Southwest, offering world-class training and treatment facilities. In fact, the industry serves as San Antonio’s largest moneymaker, joining the booming tourism business and the steady military world as the city’s top industries. A payroll topping $6.5 billion keeps 141,251 members of San Antonio’s work force (one-sixth of the city’s total work force) employed while more than $18.9 billion is added to the region’s local economy thanks to the medical business. On the treatment end, San Antonio attracts patients from across the US and beyond, especially Mexico. And more than 40 countries regularly send physicians, dentists, and others in the medical field to the city for training.
1. Audie L. Murphy Memorial Veterans Hospital
City: San Antonio, TX
Category: Health Care
Telephone: (210) 617-5300
Address: 7400 Merton Minter Blvd.
Description: This 462-bed facility provides patient care, including geriatric care in its federally funded Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinic Center. The hospital is also home to one of the world’s largest fungus-identification and -testing labs.
City: San Antonio, TX
Category: Health Care
Address: 111 Dallas St.
3. Brooke Army Medical Center—San Antonio Military Medical Center
City: San Antonio, TX
Category: Health Care
Telephone: (210) 916-4141
Description: This military center is housed in a 1.5 million-square-foot facility located at Fort Sam Houston. The 450-bed hospital is best known for its burn treatment and research, but it also provides primary care to more than 640,000 military personnel, both active duty and retired. The center also serves as a trauma center and a cancer research facility, conducting numerous research projects and anticancer drug trials.
4. Christus Santa Rosa Children’S Hospital (Csrch)
City: San Antonio, TX
Category: Health Care
Telephone: (210) 704-2011
Address: 333 N. Santa Rosa St.
Description: Located in downtown San Antonio, CSRCH serves children from a 90-county area. The hospital is one of only a few children’s hospitals in Texas, and was the first hospital in Texas entirely dedicated to the care of children. CSRCH is affiliated with the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and is recognized as a premier academic children’s hospital. It is also a member of the Children’s Hospital Association of Texas and the National Association of Children’s Hospitals and Related Institutions. From neonatal intensive care to children’s emergency services to titanium rib implants, CHRISTUS Santa Rosa provides innovative care specifically designed for children.
5. Christus Santa Rosa Hospital—Downtown (Csrh)
City: San Antonio, TX
Category: Health Care
Telephone: (210) 704-2011
Address: 333 N. Santa Rosa St.
Description: Opened in 1869 as San Antonio’s first private hospital, CSRH now has 2 locations, one in downtown San Antonio and one in the South Texas Medical Center. The centrally located downtown campus provides a full range of services for adults, including award-winning cardiac services, operating rooms, ICUs, and cardiac catheterization suites; a comprehensive cancer program in association with the Cancer Therapy and Research Center; complete obstetrical and newborn services, including the LifeCycles program; a wide range of inpatient and outpatient surgical services; a diabetes care program; a Dialysis Access Center; and 24-hour emergency services.
City: San Antonio, TX
Category: Health Care
Address: 2827 Babcock Rd.
7. Methodist Ambulatory Surgery Hospital
City: San Antonio, TX
Category: Health Care
Telephone: (210) 575-5000
Address: 9150 Huebner Rd.
Description: Specializing in selective inpatient, outpatient, and day surgery, the Methodist Ambulatory Surgery Hospital offers 10 fully equipped operating rooms and 1 cystoscopy suite. This 37-bed facility offers patients the latest technology and many services usually associated with larger, full-service hospitals but on a smaller, more personalized scale.
8. Methodist Children’S Hospital Of South Texas
City: San Antonio, TX
Category: Health Care
Telephone: (210) 575-7000
Address: 7700 Floyd Curl Dr.
Description: Opened in October 1998, this 129-bed hospital features a 24-hour pediatric emergency room, pediatric and neonatal intensive care units, pediatric operating suites, children’s imaging diagnostic services, and special outpatient clinics for children with complex diagnoses and chronic illnesses such as cystic fibrosis and brain tumors. The hospital houses San Antonio’s largest private neonatal intensive care unit with 46 beds. A nurse triage line, Call-A-Nurse for Children (210-22-NURSE), operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and provides free advice, in English or Spanish, from pediatric nurses.
9. Methodist Heart Hospital
City: San Antonio, TX
Category: Health Care
Telephone: (210) 575-6800
Address: 7700 Floyd Curl Dr.
Description: Methodist Heart Hospital pioneered many firsts in cardiac care, including the first balloon angioplasty in the region in 1981, the region’s first heart valve transplant, and the first live broadcast of a beating-heart bypass operation. Methodist Heart Hospital, like the Methodist Children’s Hospital, is located on the same campus as Methodist Hospital, which is the cornerstone of the complex.
10. Methodist Hospital
City: San Antonio, TX
Category: Health Care
Telephone: (210) 575-4000
Address: 7700 Floyd Curl Dr.
Description: Methodist Hospital is San Antonio’s largest private hospital. The facility opened in 1963 and today offers 683 beds. The flagship of the Methodist Healthcare System, the hospital has several specialty areas including blood and marrow stem cell transplants, oncology, cardiology, orthopedics, neurology, and women’s services. Another unique facility is its Gamma Knife Center, opened in 1998. The first of its kind in South Texas, the center specializes in noninvasive radiological treatment of brain tumors and neurological disorders. More than 2,000 physicians practice at Methodist Hospital.
11. Methodist Specialty And Transplant Hospital
City: San Antonio, TX
Category: Health Care
Telephone: (210) 575-8110
Address: 8026 Floyd Curl Dr.
Description: This 379-bed facility has received widespread acclaim for its transplant programs, which include kidney, kidney/pancreas, heart, and liver. Specialty areas include inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation, behavioral health, and the latest treatments for cancer, impotency, incontinence, and gastroenteric disorders. The Methodist Cancer Center is also located within this hospital and offers specialized care for patients with all types of cancer. The facility also houses a program in which a specially trained team works with law enforcement officers to provide care for survivors of sexual assault. The hospital is the only one in San Antonio with 3 dedicated state-of-the-art surgical suites for laparoscopic surgeries.
12. Methodist Texsan Hospital
City: San Antonio, TX
Category: Health Care
Telephone: (210) 736-6700
Address: 6700 I-10 West
Description: Methodist Texsan Hospital (formerly Texsan Heart Hospital) is a 190,000-square-foot, 3-story hospital designed for 120 beds. Opened in early 2004, this facility has 4 operating suites, 4 cardiac catheterization labs, a 10-bed day patient area, and a cardiovascular and chest pain referral center/emergency department. Other features include a rooftop helipad and underground parking area. The hospital campus is located in central San Antonio inside Loop 410 (southwest corner of the I-10 and Loop 410 interchange).
13. Metropolitan Methodist Hospital
City: San Antonio, TX
Category: Health Care
Telephone: (210) 208-2200
Address: 1310 McCullough Ave.
Description: Located near downtown San Antonio, Metropolitan Methodist Hospital is a 339-bed acute care facility providing a complete range of health care services to San Antonio and the many neighborhoods and businesses that border its centralized location. Metropolitan Methodist Hospital offers mother and baby care, general medical and surgical care, neurosurgery, cardiac care, oncology, behavioral health, inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation, sleep disorders evaluation, and a 24-hour emergency department. It was among the first hospitals in the country to introduce a bar-coded electronic medication distribution method.
14. Nix Medical Center
City: San Antonio, TX
Category: Health Care
Telephone: (210) 271-1800
Address: 414 Navarro St.
Description: The central facility for the Nix Health Care System is the Nix Medical Center, a 24-story building in downtown San Antonio. Operating since 1930, the hospital (locally referred to as “the Nix”) accommodates full medical, surgical, and geropsychiatric capabilities; outpatient and ancillary services; and acute care. The Heritage Center provides inpatient geropsychiatric care, and the Skilled Nursing Care service extends hospital care for patients who require skilled nursing but no longer need full hospital services.
15. North Central Baptist Hospital
City: San Antonio, TX
Category: Health Care
Telephone: (210) 297-4000
Address: 520 Madison Oak Dr.
Description: This 126-bed hospital is a growing facility in a fast-growing area of the city. Home to the Baptist Regional Children’s Center, North Central Baptist Hospital offers adult and pediatric emergency care, neurosciences, and maternal and newborn care. Also available are surgical and medical inpatient and outpatient care, a growing cardiac service, and other services of a general acute care hospital. Two medical office buildings are connected to the hospital by a climate-controlled walkway.