Methodist Healthcare System is planning a brand new freestanding emergency room and outpatient clinic on the nook of South Zarzamora Avenue and Southwest Loop 410 because the system seems to be to develop entry factors on the South Facet.
The medical heart contains an $8.5 million, 11-bed freestanding ER totaling over 11,000 sq. toes. A 3-story, 60,000 square-foot medical workplace constructing will supply outpatient specialty care subsequent door.
The undertaking marks Methodist’s twelfth freestanding ER in San Antonio, which function as extensions of full-scale hospital trauma facilities. The brand new freestanding ER, branded as Methodist ER Palo Alto, is deliberate to open in early 2028.
The brand new freestanding ER will likely be related to Methodist Hospital Metropolitan, the place sufferers with higher-level wants will likely be transferred. The downtown hospital is at the moment present process a $200 million enlargement.
Greg Seiler, Methodist Hospital Metropolitan CEO, mentioned that this location will serve an space that misplaced entry to care when Texas Vista Medical Middle closed in 2023. San Antonio’s South Facet faces vital well being disparities and fewer entry to care in comparison with the northern half of the town.
“We all know that there’s a necessity,” Seiler mentioned, “an excellent larger want now. Along with that, that is an space that’s simply rising dramatically.”
The South Facet inhabitants has grown considerably in the previous few a long time alongside the increasing footprint of producers like Toyota and JCB.
Methodist maintains two different Southside amenities: a freestanding ER at Brooks and an pressing care in San Antonio’s Southeast neighborhood. Methodist Healthcare System is a 50-50 partnership between Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas and HCA Healthcare, working a complete of 11 hospitals within the San Antonio space.
The county-owned hospital system, College Well being, is constructing Palo Alto Hospital not too distant throughout from Texas A&M San Antonio’s campus, deliberate to open in 2027. The general public hospital opened an adjoining outpatient clinic, the Vida clinic, late final yr.
The brand new Methodist undertaking is aligned with the bigger pattern of methods being “much less hospital-centric” and extra centered on outpatient care, Seiler mentioned.
“There’s increasingly more issues that may be carried out on an outpatient foundation and in clinics and in an ambulatory setting, versus a full-blown hospital,” he mentioned. “From an effectivity standpoint, if it may be carried out exterior the hospital, we need to present it in some of these [outpatient] settings.”
