Leaders celebrate topping out of UT Health San Antonio Multispecialty and Research Hospital
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Oct.17, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Surgeries in multiple specialties, new services for the region including stem cell therapies and bone marrow transplants, and access to the latest clinical research trials are drawing closer to reality as construction of the half-a-billion-dollar UT Health San Antonio Multispecialty and Research Hospital reaches an important milestone in the South Texas Medical Center.
- The half-a-billion-dollar UT Health San Antonio Multispecialty and Research Hospital, a world-class facility with technology and ambience backing up superb medical teams, has reached the topping out mark in its construction.
- Leaders of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio), community supporters and general contractor Vaughn Construction celebrated the hospital's topping out and beam-signing ceremony today.
- "Admitting hospital patients who are part of clinical research efforts is not done in our community now," said William L. Henrich, MD, MACP , president of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio).
- The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio), a primary driver for San Antonio's $42.4 billion health care and biosciences sector, is the largest research university in South Texas with an annual research portfolio of $350 million.