CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Wellness System introduced strategies to quickly shut its medical facility situated in the South Texas Medical Facility. That’s a loss of 174 inpatient beds, however just up until a brand-new tower at CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Health Center– Westover Hills opens this springtime.
In a news release on Monday, the Catholic not-for-profit wellness system stated the choice adheres to an interior efficiency assessment of medical facility procedures to attend to the progressing healthcare requirements of the neighborhood.
On April 25, CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Health Center, which has actually run for greater than 38 years, will certainly shut its doors. Staff members will certainly be put at various other CHRISTUS centers.
On standard, medical facility beds at the clinical facility place were one-third complete. Individuals sent out from its Westover Hills medical facility made up regarding fifty percent of those individuals, CHRISTUS informed the San Antonio Record.
CHRISTUS authorities stated the brand-new tower at the Westover Hills medical facility will certainly change all inpatient beds from the clinical facility medical facility.
” This choice was made with the health of our individuals in mind,” stated Give Wicklund, Chief Executive Officer of CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Wellness System. “Our individuals and affiliates will certainly constantly be our concern, and we are dedicated to making certain a smooth shift of like various other CHRISTUS centers.”
CHRISTUS Wellness has greater than 60 medical facilities in the united state and South America.
In San Antonio, CHRISTUS has medical facilities in Westover Hills, Alamo Levels and a kids’s medical facility midtown, in addition to numerous clinical facilities.
In November 2023, the system introduced it would certainly broaden its Westover Hills medical facility by including the brand-new, 164,000 square-foot, four-story tower with 30 brand-new exclusive postpartum areas, a newborn baby room, a brand-new obstetrics emergency clinic device outfitted with exclusive areas, 44 brand-new grown-up extensive treatment beds, 20 neonatal extensive treatment beds and an increased drug store.
San Antonio has actually shed medical facility beds in recent times as a result of closures, most significantly Texas Panorama Medical facility on the city’s Southwest Side in 2023 and the historical Nix Medical facility on the River Stroll in 2019.
Others, consisting of Bexar Area’s public wellness system have actually increased: College Wellness’s Female’s and Kid’s Medical facility opened up in August in the clinical facility and building and construction is underway on 2 brand-new medical facilities. Additionally in the clinical facility, UT Wellness San Antonio Multispecialty and Study Medical facility opened up in December.
Baptist Wellness System opened up a healthcare facility in Westover Hills last summertime at Wiseman Blvd and Loophole 1604.
According to the San Antonio Express-News, Methodist Medical Care is intending to construct a healthcare facility on the South Side.
Currently, there is just one full-service medical facility offering the southerly component of Bexar Area which is Baptist Wellness System’s Goal Route Baptist Health Center at Brooks.
