Methodist Healthcare Hospitals Overview
As the region’s most preferred health care provider, Methodist Healthcare has a dynamic team of over 8,000 professionals and support staff devoted to fulfilling our mission of serving humanity to honor God and providing exceptional and cost-effective health care accessible to all. More than 2,700 physicians in every field of specialization maintain credentials to practice at Methodist Healthcare Hospitals. In 1963, Methodist Hospital was the first hospital to open in the now world-renowned Medical Center. Today, Methodist Hospital includes these additional campuses in the Medical Center: Methodist Heart Hospital, Methodist Children’s Hospital and Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital. Specialized services are provided through departments including the Texas Transplant Institute, Texas Neurosciences Institute, Gamma Knife® Center and Methodist Women’s Pavilion.
Methodist Hospital
Chartered in 1955, Methodist Hospital became the first hospital built in the South Texas Medical Center. A group of businessmen known as the Five Oaks donated 40 acres for the development of a world-class medical hub. A groundbreaking ceremony was held in 1960 featuring a mock nuclear blast to showcase the design plans of the hospital: the world’s first nuclear-age hospital with two floors built completely underground to ensure vital services were available in the event of a nuclear attack. The hospital opened in 1963 and welcomed the first baby born in the Medical Center. Methodist Hospital now delivers more than 5,000 babies annually. In addition to its outstanding obstetrics program, Methodist Hospital is also known for its outstanding neurology and neurosurgical care as well as orthopedics, bone marrow transplants, emergency services and an oncology program which includes South Texas’ only Gamma Knife® Center. Methodist Hospital is accredited by the Joint Commission in stroke care and is one of two Texas hospitals to receive the highest quality award from the Texas medical Foundation Health Quality Institute: The Texas Medical Foundation Gold Award for Health Care Improvement.
Methodist Children’s Hospital
Methodist Children’s Hospital is dedicated to providing outstanding pediatric care for children from all over Texas and beyond. Colorful images and artwork enhance every window and wall, creating a warm, welcoming environment that is focused on the health and well-being of each child. Methodist Children’s Hospital has a spacious emergency department dedicated to pediatric cases with 32 individual treatment rooms, each equipped with a television and an activity center. The newborn intensive care unit is a regional center of excellence with 78 licensed beds over 19,000 square feet, caring for the most fragile premature and special needs babies. Methodist Children’s Hospital is among the nation’s largest providers of blood and marrow stem cell and cord blood transplants for children, having performed over 500 transplants since program inception.
Methodist Heart Hospital
As an accredited chest pain center, Methodist Heart Hospital is the area’s leader in cardiac care and recognized for an outstanding heart transplant program. Methodist Heart Hospital pioneered many procedures in cardiac care, including the first balloon angioplasty and the first heart valve transplant, and was the first hospital in San Antonio to offer a cardio-hospitalist program in which two cardiologists work in the hospital on rotating shifts, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, prepared to care for patients with signs and symptoms of a heart attack. Methodist Heart Hospital recently opened a Hybrid Operating Room, offering cardiology specialists and surgeons the opportunity to provide a wider range of services in a single room. Methodist Heart Hospital is the only private hospital in the area performing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement, or TAVR.
Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital
Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital is a full-service facility that is widely acclaimed for its outstanding kidney, liver and pancreas transplant programs. Home to the Texas Transplant Institute, the center made medical history by performing the world’s first 16-way kidney donor exchange in three consecutive days in a single center. The kidney transplant program is the largest living donor program in the nation, due to the success of its paired exchange kidney program. Other specialty areas include emergency care, psychiatry, bariatric surgery, inpatient rehabilitation, and the latest treatments for cancer and incontinence. The facility houses a program with a specially trained team that works with law enforcement officers to provide forensic exams and emergency care for survivors of sexual assault.
