Patient Care at UT Health San Antonio

University Hospital

Housestaff General Medicine Teams

These medicine teams are staffed by an attending, a resident, and two interns.  Teams admit patients based on a “drip” system, with one team member staying to perform late afternoon admissions each day.  Attendings rotate to assist with staffing patients admitted in the late afternoon. We have developed an inter-professional, patient-partnered model of care that includes multidisciplinary bedside rounding for two of our housestaff teams.

Hospitalist Procedure Service

The Hospitalist Procedure Service is a consult service run by a dedicated group of hospitalists whose mission is to provide patients with maximal comfort and safety during their procedure, and to provide medical teams around the hospital with rapid diagnostic and therapeutic interventions. Patient comfort and safety, along with resident education are the hallmarks of the service.  Service is provided to specialty and sub-specialty teams throughout the hospital.

Our faculty is dedicated to safety and comfort, and to providing education and training both locally and nationally, with faculty participating in trainings at SHM and ACP annually.

Medicine Consult Service

Staffed by an attending physician and two third-year residents, this service provides consultative care for medical issues that arise for patients on other services.  Peri-operative medicine is a significant component of the service provided, and throughout each block, we review a curriculum consisting mainly of primary articles.

Hospitalist Service

We provide direct patient care on these teams, staffed by a physician.

Medicine Transplant Service 

We have two hospitalists covering at a time, working alongside transplant physicians who specialize in the care of liver, kidney, and lung transplant patients.  Each physician has an assigned transplant nurse navigator who will assist with workflow to ensure smooth execution of daily tasks.

Triage/Cross-Cover Service

Physicians rotate to assist with carrying the admissions pager or cross-cover pager in shifts. Duties involve the triage of calls from the Emergency Department and clinics to assign patients to teams for admission, consultation in the Emergency Department to assist with alternative disposition, and after-hours admissions and cross cover.

Collaborative Care Initiative

At University Hospital and UT Health San Antonio, we have embedded two inter-professional collaborative practice teams. To learn more about collaborative care, please visit the University Health site.

UT Multispecialty and Research Hospital

Our dedicated team of hospitalists and Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) provide 24/7 inpatient services to patients of UT Health’s brand new, state-of-the-art research hospital. For additional information about this new facility, please visit the MSRH webpage.

Patient Care at Audie L. Murphy Veterans’ Affairs Hospital

Internal Medicine Inpatient Services

The VA section provides 24/7 clinical service to support inpatient care at Audie L. Murphy Veterans’ Affairs Hospital (ALMVAH), which is the acute inpatient facility in the South Texas Veterans Health Care System. The VA Section operates teaching inpatient service, the faculty inpatient service, the medicine consultation service, and triage services. All staff physicians are additionally appointed with the UT Health San Antonio Long School of Medicine.