University Health

University Health is the publicly owned health system of Bexar County, Texas. It is legally the Bexar County Hospital District, a political subdivision of the State of Texas. A seven-member Board of Managers, appointed by the Bexar County Commissioners Court, governs it. Edward Banos is president and CEO. Its main campus is University Hospital in the South Texas Medical Center in San Antonio.

The system operates University Hospital, the region's only Level I trauma center for adults and children, and the Women's & Children's Hospital. It also runs the Robert B. Green Campus downtown and more than two dozen primary care, specialty and walk-in centers. Community First Health Plans, University Medicine Associates and the University Health Foundation are part of the system. Faculty physicians from UT Health San Antonio, now part of The University of Texas at San Antonio, staff its hospitals.

University Health is building new community hospitals on the South Side of San Antonio and in Selma, with openings planned for 2027.

University Health History:

• In February 2024, University Health broke ground on University Health Retama Hospital in Selma.
• In January 2024, it broke ground on University Health Palo Alto Hospital on the South Side of San Antonio.
• In 2014, University Hospital completed its Sky Tower, a million-square-foot expansion.
• In 1999, University Health opened the Texas Diabetes Institute on South Zarzamora Street.
• In 1994, the hospital district adopted the University Health System name, and Bexar County Hospital became University Hospital.
• In 1968, Bexar County Hospital opened in the South Texas Medical Center, alongside the new University of Texas Medical School at San Antonio.
• Founded in 1955 in San Antonio, when Bexar County voters approved the creation of the Bexar County Hospital District. Its roots trace to 1917, when the Robert B. Green Memorial Hospital opened.