Health care Health Care Guide
BY JARRETT WHITENER & PARKS KUGLE
2025
Readers, welcome to your annual CI Health Care Edition. In this year’s edition, we’ve highlighted a local nonprofit organization that provides respiratory support for the uninsured or underinsured in the San Antonio area. We also provide updates on some of our area hospitals.
Learn more about health care services in your area in this special guide. Having access to a diverse range of health care options is an essential aspect of life in the North San Antonio area for residents of all ages. In our health care guide, readers will have the opportunity to learn more about new technology offered at local regional hospitals and a nonprofit helping to support patients with respiratory issues.
Heather Demere San Antonio Market President hdemere@ communityimpact.com
Sierra Martin Managing Editor smartin@ communityimpact.com
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3 updates from North San Antonio hospitals
1 The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio The hospital has adopted deep brain stimulation, or DBS, technology. This technique uses electrodes placed in the brain and connected to a battery-operated generator in the chest to stimulate a specific area of the brain. The technology is relieving Parkinson’s disease, dystonia, epilepsy and essential tremor conditions. According to a news release, UT Health is one of the first hospitals in the nation to employ the new adaptive DBS system.
2 Methodist Hospital in Stone Oak The hospital will undergo a $104 million expansion project in fall 2025. Slated to be completed early 2027, the project will include adding 54 beds—raising the total bed count to 299—and 123 new surface parking spaces. It also includes constructing a fifth and sixth floor to the hospital’s west tower, adding 40 medical telemetry beds on the fifth floor and 14 critical care intensive care unit, or ICU, beds on the sixth floor. Estimated to take 17 months, construction will begin in October.
3 University Health At University Health, Artificial Intelligence is used to improve medical diagnosis. One of the key areas being advanced with AI is the ability to more accurately read mammograms and speed up magnetic resonance imaging, or MRIs, to be at least three times faster, allowing more patients to be seen daily. “Ultimately, radiologists still have to look at it and sign off on it,” said Bill Phillips, executive vice president and chief operating officer. “But we are finding it extremely accurate.”
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