Clinical Services
Texas Diabetes Institute
All in this one location, family physicians, endocrinologists, renal specialists, orthopaedists, ophthalmologists, dermatologists, podiatrists, and wound care specialists work together to help patients with diabetes manage their disease and reduce their chances of developing its serious, even deadly, complications. Five distinct, yet integrated, centers of excellence comprise the work and the goals of the Texas Diabetes Institute: health promotion, patient education, professional training, treatment and diabetes research. The patient care and community amenities include an auditorium, café and grill, demonstration kitchen, fitness center and chapel. In addition, the facility has state-of-the-art research laboratories, four hyperbaric chambers, 28-station outpatient renal dialysis clinic, pharmacy, and a clinic for each medical specialty. Providing all of these services at one location contributes to the multidisciplinary approach to patient care in Bexar County and South Texas.
The Texas Diabetes Institute partners with the Children’s Clinic to provide a Children’s Center Clinic in addition to “Youth in Motion” exercise programming at the on-site gym, cooking classes in English and Spanish at the on-site education kitchen and supports the YMCA 360 program for affordable diabetes prevention programming for children.
University Hospital
University Hospital is a facility of the University Health System, a tax supported agency whose primary responsibility is to furnish medical care to indigent and needy residents of San Antonio and the surrounding Bexar County. University Hospital serves the general Bexar County population and referred private patients of the Health Science Center faculty. Over 3,000 newborns are admitted annually to the Term Newborn Nursery and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. A typical daily census in the NICU includes 16 level III patients and 12 level II patients.
There are over 700 admissions annually to the NICU, including 500 admissions to level III beds, which are occupied by ventilator and/or oxygen dependent infants. Level II care is provided for pre-term babies, infants of diabetic mothers, newborns with birth defects, post-surgical cases and other infants requiring intensive nursing care or a high level of observation.
The Women and Children’s hospital faculty specialists provide comprehensive care for sick and injured children with a level 3 Trauma Center and dedicated children’s emergency department. Inpatient oversized, kid-friendly private rooms, pediatric rehab gyms and a new child Life Center with conference facilities and a cafeteria make this a kid friendly space. The Women and Children’s Hospital NICU features single-family rooms arranged in pods to optimize quality, comfort and efficiency and space for family members to stay overnight and a warm welcoming environment. A family center with a lounge and educational resources. Trainee lounge, food services and conference facilities are attached to the UT Health medical school complex offices and facilities.
The trainees at UT Health San Antonio have great things to say about University Hospital and it’s impact on their training.
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
State-of-the art facility designed to provide comprehensive pediatric medical services with a focus on cardiovascular surgery, trauma, and solid organ transplants such as kidney, liver or heart.