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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]
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 ...
Also located at UBC Hospital is the Brain Research Centre, a partnership of the UBC Faculty of Medicine and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute. The Brain Research Centre employs more than 200 investigators with multidisciplinary expertise in neuroscience research ranging from the test tube, to the bedside, to industrial spin-offs.
UT Health San Antonio has produced more than 42,550 graduates; [3] more than 4,700 students a year train in an environment that involves more than 100 affiliated hospitals, clinics and health care facilities in South Texas. The university offers more than 65 degrees, the large majority of them being graduate and professional degrees, in the ...
The hospital is named for Medal of Honor recipient and Texas native son [1] Audie Murphy, who died in a plane crash on May 28, 1971. [2] That same year, U.S. Congressman Olin Teague introduced legislation to name a planned Veterans Administration medical facility in San Antonio for Murphy. [3] The facility was dedicated November 17, 1973. [4] [5]
1870 to 1875 - City of San Antonio donates 92 acres (370,000 m 2) for an Army post; 1879 - temporary wooden (board and batten, not log) 12-bed hospital built; 1886 - permanent, brick 12-bed hospital built to replace the temporary one; 1908 - Station Hospital built to accommodate 84 beds
Loop 1604 as of 2016. Loop 1604 is the outer highway loop encircling San Antonio, Texas, spanning approximately 95.6 miles (153.9 km).Originally constructed as a two-lane highway, the northern segment of the route, from US 90 in western San Antonio to Kitty Hawk Road in northeastern Bexar County, has been upgraded to a four-lane freeway.
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 ...