Special recognition for our affiliated hospitals
University Health System: UT Health Science Center and University
Health System partnership named among the top 50 hospitals in the nation
for 3 specialties.
For the 7th consecutive year, University Hospital, the primary teaching hospital for The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, is the only San Antonio hospital to rank as one of U.S. News & World Report's best hospitals. The magazine evaluated 5,189 U.S. hospitals as part of its 17th annual "America's Best Hospitals" study. They found University to be one of just 176 hospitals - or about 3 percent - to meet the rigorous criteria to be recognized as a Top 50 hospital in at least one of 16 key medical/surgical specialties.
University Health System, in partnership with The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, is recognized as one of the Top 50 hospitals in the nation in three specialties - Heart/Heart Surgery, Orthopedics and Endocrinology (hormonal disorders, primarily diabetes care).
University Hospital brings home national
honors, again.
University Hospital, the leading civilian trauma center in Bexar County,
with physicians representing every medical specialty, meets the highest
national and state standards of trauma care and is designated as a
Level-I Trauma Center capable of providing care for the most seriously
injured trauma patients. The Emergency Center averages 70,000 emergency
patients each year.
Click here to learn more about University Hospital's Awards and Recognition
CHRISTUS
Santa Rosa named #1 Hospital in San Antonio:
CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Health Care has been named a recipient of the 2006
Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence™, based on a study
issued by HealthGrades, the nation’s leading independent healthcare
ratings company.
CHRISTUS Santa Rosa is rated best in San Antonio for overall clinical quality, as the area’s only recipient of the 2006 Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence. CHRISTUS Santa Rosa also joins a list of seven hospitals in Texas, and fewer than two percent of all hospitals nationwide, to receive this award in three consecutive years (2004-2006).
Hospitals receiving the award were rated in the top five percent in the nation, in terms of mortality and complication rates, for 28 procedures and diagnoses evaluated by HealthGrades. Patients treated at Distinguished Hospitals are, on average, 27 percent less likely to face mortality, and 14 percent less likely to suffer from a major complication.
CHRISTUS Santa Rosa is also a recipient of the 2006 HealthGrades Specialty Excellence Awards for general surgery, pulmonary care and gastrointestinal services. The hospital ranked among the top five percent nationally, and best in San Antonio, for all three categories. Read more.
Thelma Hurd, MD, Associate Professor
in the Surgical Oncology Division
of the Department of Surgery, has been awarded $250,000 from the
Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation for her project titled
'Integrating Health Literacy and Community Based Education to Improve
Breast Health Among Hispanics.' This project will develop and pilot
Esperanza y Vida, a novel, culturally relevant breast cancer education
program in a south Texas community with the goals of improving health
literacy and increasing breast cancer screening rates. A potential
outcome of this program is the enhanced understanding of the
relationship between health literacy, community based education, and
determinants of cancer screening in both the male and female Hispanic
populations. The ultimate goal is to increase screening utilization,
promote guideline concordant screening health behaviors and reduce
breast cancer mortality among Hispanic women in south Texas.
Howard Tzu Wang, MD, Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery,
has received a one-year grant for $35,555 from the
ERC for his submission, "Tissue culture of pre-adipocyte precursor for reconstruction of calvarial defects." Dr. Wang's funding
begins July 1, 2006.
