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San Antonio's Brooke Army Medical Center Recognized as One of the Nation’s ‘Most Wired Hospitals’

San Antonio’s Brooke Army Medical Center Recognized as One of the Nation’s ‘Most Wired Hospitals’

By Editor on August 11, 2012

San Antonio’s Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC) at Fort Sam Houston, part of the United States Army Medical Command, has been named as “A Top Wired Hospital in the United States” according to the 2012 Most Wired Survey by Hospitals and Health Networks magazine.

Posted in Featured, National Health News | Tagged Afghanistan, Army, BAMC, Brooke Army Medical Center, burn unit, deployment, Fort Sam Houston, FSH, IED, improvised explosive device, JBSA, Joint Base San Antonio, military hospital, military medicine, military treatment, recovery, SAMMC, San Antonio, San Antonio Military Medical Center, Soldier, Soldiers, Texas, Tx, U.S. Army, Warrior Transition Battalion, wounds, WTB | Leave a response

Cranial Helmets Make a Difference for Texas Children

Cranial Helmets Make a Difference for Texas Children

By Editor on March 27, 2012

San Antonio pediatrician Dr. Brooks Hagee is the mother to 20-month-old daughter Caroline. Hagee, whose practice treat infants and consuls families on child medical issues, noticed her daughter had flatness in the back of her head, her forehead bulged out and one side of her face seemed fuller than the other.

Posted in Central Texas, Featured | Tagged children, Cranial Helmets, Darren Poidevin, Dr. Brooks Hagee, Health News Texas, Plagiocephaly, San Antonio, STAR Cranial Center of Excellence, STARband, STARscanner, Texas | Leave a response

Texas Robotic Surgery Creates Initiative to Improve Patient Care

Texas Robotic Surgery Creates Initiative to Improve Patient Care

By Editor on March 7, 2012

In an initiative to improve patient care and enhance the delivery of care in da Vinci robotic surgery, the Texas Institute for Robotic Surgery at St. David’s North Austin Medical Center is partnering with three Texas hospitals.

Posted in Central Texas, Featured | Tagged da Vinci robotic surgery, Dallas, El Paso, Health News Texas, Las Palmas Del Sol Healthcare, M.D., Medical City, Methodist Stone Oak Hospital, Randy Fagin, San Antonio, St. David's Healthcare, St. David's North Austin Medical Center, Texas Institute for Robotic Surgery | Leave a response

Daytime architect's rendering of the new Christus Santa Rosa Emergency Center to be built in New Braunfels, TX. The facility is expected to open late 2012. Emergency Service Partners, L.P. will staff and provide complete medical management for this free-standing hospital emergency department.

Emergency Physician Group Partners With Christus Santa Rosa to Manage New Emergency Centers

By Editor on February 7, 2012

Two new emergency medical facilities set to open later this year in northwest San Antonio and New Braunfels will be staffed and medically managed by physician-owned Emergency Service Partners, L.P. (ESP). The new facilities will expand access emergency medical care in both cities.

Posted in Central Texas | Tagged Christus Santa Rosa Health System, emergency clinics, Emergency Service Partners, Health News Texas, New Braunsfels, San Antonio | Leave a response

HHS Denies Texas Claim to Phase in Medical Loss Ratio

HHS Denies Texas Claim to Phase in Medical Loss Ratio

By Editor on January 30, 2012

The Department of Health and Human Services has denied Texas a waiver to phase in the medical loss ratio rule under the health care reform law.

Posted in Health News Texas | Tagged Health and Human Services, health care reform law, Health News Texas, medical insurance, medical loss ratio rule, Rep. Ruth Jones McClendon, San Antonio, Texas Department of Insurance | Leave a response

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