Methodist Healthcare has a history of bringing innovative healthcare to San Antonio. It began in 1963 with Methodist Hospital—the first “nuclear age” hospital in the United States. It continued in 1998, with the opening of the Methodist Children’s Hospital, the only hospital in San Antonio designed and built for children. And designs for the future continue today with the opening of the “new” Northeast Methodist Hospital and the Metropolitan Methodist Women’s Pavilion.

With construction beginning in mid 2006, we will make history again with the opening of the hospital of the future—Methodist Stone Oak Hospital. As a “next generation” hospital, specific infrastructure designs will reflect very different thinking about how hospitals are organized in face of rapidly changing ways patients are diagnosed and treated. Easily accessible centers of care will be the new focus. And, advanced technology will provide a greater level of quality and efficiency.

Hospital Highlights

• Phase One plans: 132-bed comprehensive tertiary care hospital with outpatient services.
• Overall master plan includes the possibility of as many as 350 beds.
• Focus on major tertiary healthcare services such as Neurosciences, Cardiology and other comprehensive tertiary services.
• Designed from the ground floor up with access improvements for easier navigation—with three entrances along one single corridor the length of the hospital.
• Along the main corridor will be easily identifiable centers of care resulting in less confusion and frustration for patients, families and visitors.
• Advanced technology like bedside admitting, eMAR, ePOM and PACS will result in more efficient and higher quality of care.
• An emergency center designed to serve adults and children will incorporate design and infrastructure changes to enhance the patient/family experience.
• A convenient location—just off of Highway 281 at Sonterra Boulevard. Easy access from Highway 281, Loop 1604, Hardy Oak and Sonterra Boulevard. Also, easy navigation within the actual development site.
• An attached 120,000 square foot Medical Office Building that will house physicians of all specialities.
• Construction starting in mid 2006, completion in late 2008.