Alamo Area Hospital Network Gears Up for Growth
Published Apr 14, 2008
Many of the hospitals in the Alamo Area, including Christus Santa Rosa Health Care in San Antonio, are expanding into new facilities.
If the number of hospitals in the Alamo Area is any indication, residents can rest at ease about their health.
Many of the hospitals in the region, including Christus Santa Rosa Health Care (CSRHC) and Methodist Healthcare System in San Antonio, are expanding into new facilities while others, such as South Texas Regional Medical Center, are adding on to their existing buildings.
Christus Santa Rosa is constructing a new 150-bed hospital in the Westover Hills area of town that is scheduled to be complete in December 2008.
“The heavy population growth in western San Antonio has created the need for a full range of medical services in this portion of the community,” says Don A. Beeler, CEO of CSRHC, in a statement announcing the new hospital. “This complex not only will bring outpatient and inpatient care closer to these residents, but it will provide extraordinary technology that should enhance the already high level of care that we deliver.”
Methodist recently opened a $13.6 million freestanding emergency center in Boerne, the first of its kind in South Texas. The hospital is an answer to serving the booming population in what was once a rural area.
South Texas Regional Medical Center (STRMC) in Jourdanton opened a new 27-bed center exclusively for heart and lung care in 2006, according to the hospital’s CEO Michael Pierce. The hospital also touts advanced hyperbarics and wound care capabilities, as well as effective and competent home health-care and rehabilitation services.
STRMC heavily emphasizes community involvement, Pierce says.
“STRMC’s tradition is to provide quality care to the community through strong, lasting relationships with physicians that have a long standing with the community – a tradition of caring for the local community by the local community,” he says.
“STRMC is known for the personalized care the staff delivers. We pride ourselves in having familiar faces on staff and physicians who live in the area so that neighbors are treating neighbors.”
Sid Peterson Memorial Hospital in Kerrville is a community, non-profit health-care provider that was established in 1949 by Hal and Charlie Peterson, in honor of their father, Sid. Sid Peterson died of a heart condition after many long, hard trips from Kerrville to San Antonio, 60 miles away, and his sons wanted residents of the community to have a local alternative to San Antonio’s health-care providers.
The hospital is now an expanding institution, serving residents of the Hill Country with specialty wound care, women’s health and rehabilitation units, all opened since 2000. Construction on a new facility, located on a 35-acre campus west of the Peterson Ambulatory Care Center, began in December 2005.
Story by Michaela Jackson
Photo by Jeff Adkins
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