As it’s doing in San Antonio, the for-profit health system said that without a bailout,...
Eboni Windom, a respiratory therapist at Texas Vista Medical Center, attends to a COVID patient in the ICU.Early in the pandemic, Steward Health Care declared that without a government bailout, it would have to close a hospital it operated in Pennsylvania.The private for-profit health care network said Wednesday that it would shutter Texas Vista Medical Center, the Southwest San Antonio hospital formerly named Southwest General — unless Bexar County and its University Health step in.
Beyond that, it said Steward Health has not “given University Health any opportunity to ‘take over control’” of Texas Vista — despite the company saying the health district had denied such an offer. George Hernandez, president and CEO of University Health, was not available for an interview Thursday. Neither was Bexar County Judge Peter Sakai, whose staff said he injured his ankle. Former County Judge Nelson Wolff, who retired from elective office at the end of last year, said Texas Vista’s financial state was not brought up to him while he was in office.
Many of those hospitals and surgical centers are in areas where patients are generally wealthier and healthier and where providers can collect higher reimbursements from insurance companies. “There are wonderful, perfect hospitals in the Medical Center,” she said. “However, our people need access to a hospital that’s nearby them because that helps their families as well.”
“In order for the hospital to continue to provide safe, high-quality services — particularly for the region’s behavioral health patients, trauma patients and women — an external agent must step up to assist the facility,” Steward Health added. “Barring this, the facility is forced to close.”
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