North San Antonio Edition | June 2023

2023 HEALTH CARE EDITION

VITAL IMPACT The San Antonio Chamber of Commerce’s 2022 health care economic impact report measures a steady rise in a total dollar volume of sales of medical products and services citywide since 2011.

“HEALTH CARE IS LOCAL. PATIENTS LIKE TO BE SEEN BY SOMEONE

U.S. Census Bureau data shows. According to the chamber report’s authors, Richard Butler and Mary Ste—both Trinity University profes- sors—San Antonio’s health care industry has thrived as part of the overall city’s long-term expansion. “The [health care] industry has shown steady growth over the 25 years that we have been studying the industry,” Butler said. “It’s been an important part of the San Antonio economy for a very long time.” Butler pointed to other correlating factors in the growth of San Antonio’s health care sectors, including a rising amount of health services, pay- rolls and costs of service. Ste said health care providers, mainly hospi- tals, typically follow population growth and may add medical oce buildings to attract physicians. “A variety of outpatient services will follow [population growth],” Ste said. Ste said this has happened in the Stone Oak area, where health care providers are seeing a mix of patients who either have federal insurance, such as Medicare or Medicaid, have private insurance, or pay their medical bills themselves. ”You see the same growth now in [San Antonio’s Westover Hills neighborhood] and north towards Boerne,” Ste said.

IN THEIR OWN COMMUNITY." JEFF WILSON, METHODIST STONE OAK HOSPITAL CEO

TOTAL SALES

$29.7B

2011

Civic leaders, including Danny Zimmermann, North San Antonio Chamber of Commerce board chair, said Stone Oak hospitals continuing to expand and innovate will help lure even more health care providers to the neighborhood and fur- ther meet medical needs of a growing population. “Proximity is important with health care ser- vices, and residential growth in the Stone Oak area has remained strong in recent years,” Zimmermann said. “The average age and discretionary income demographics in the area no doubt contribute [to health care growth] as well.” A healthy industry Other observers of San Antonio’s health care industry said they are not surprised by its develop- ment during the local population boom. From 2000-2022, San Antonio’s population rose 27.8% from 1.15 million in 2000 to 1.47 million in 2022,

$32.7B

2013

$35.7B

2015

$39.9B

2017

$41.7B

2019

$44.1B

2021

For more information, visit communityimpact.com .

SOURCE: SAN ANTONIO CHAMBER OF COMMERCECOMMUNITY IMPACT

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