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The building was a product of the Federal Public Works programs enacted to relieve widespread unemployment during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Its construction accomplished several goals—generating employment, housing all federal agencies in a single building, and streamlining San Antonio's quickly expanding postal needs.
In 1959, the new hospital district was leveraged to promise a teaching hospital to attract the University of Texas South Texas Medical School, now the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. The hospital district broke ground in 1965 for the Bexar County Teaching Hospital, now University Hospital, adjacent to the site for the ...
Current WHASC as seen from the top of the old WHASC. Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center (WHASC), formerly known as Wilford Hall Medical Center, is a U.S. Air Force medical treatment facility located on the grounds of San Antonio's Lackland Air Force Base. [1]
The hospital as a whole as well as the outlying clinics are considered BAMC. It is a University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and USUHS teaching hospital and is home to the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research (USAISR) Burn Center. The USAISR Burn Center is part of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command ...
University Hospital (ranked as one of the Top 50 hospitals in the US for seven years in a row, in 2007) [23] The Center for Oral Health Care & Research (COHR) UT Health San Antonio Multispecialty and Research Hospital [24] Audie L. Murphy Memorial VA Hospital [25] Christus Santa Rosa medical center; San Antonio State Hospital [26]
The Sundry Civil Service Bill of 3 March 1873 included a $100,000 allotment for a new army post in San Antonio, on 93 acres of land deeded by the city on Government Hill. [ 4 ] : 13–15 Edward Braden Construction Co. won the contract to build the post on 7 June 1876, for $83,900 ($2.48 million in 2024).
The San Antonio Market is one of 20 large military medical markets that directly report to the Defense Health Agency (DHA). The Market comprises all military medical facilities in the San Antonio, Texas area, to include Brooke Army Medical Center, Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center, 10 standalone military treatment facilities, and over 100 specialty services—staffed by Army, Air Force ...
San Antonio's Biosciences industry employs over 100,000 people. [3] The largest areas of research are conducted by institutes in or around the South Texas Medical Center. These include the oncology division of one of the world's top five biotechnology firms, the world's largest Phase I clinical trials program for new anti-cancer drugs, and the ...