GROWTH AND EXPANSION

METHODIST ER | CITY BASE OPENS IN SOUTH SAN ANTONIO

Methodist Healthcare celebrated opening its newest free-standing emergency room in the Brooks City Base community by hosting a ribbon-cutting ceremony on January 25.

Now open in the Brooks City Base Landing Shopping Center, Methodist ER | City Base is an extension of Methodist Hospital | Metropolitan and officially opened on January 24, 2022. The facility provides exceptional care 24 hours a day, seven days a week to the citizens of the Brooks City Base and South San Antonio communities.

“Families on the south side deserve quality health care... It means so much to this district, which has traditionally been under-served, but we are growing, and people are noticing,” said District 3 Councilwoman Phyllis Viagran, one of the guest speakers at the ceremony.

Located in the Brooks City Base Landing Shopping Center at 3154 SE Military Dr #103, San Antonio, TX 78223, this facility brings the health system’s total number of FSERs to ten. Methodist ER | City Base consists of board-certified ER and trauma physicians, registered nurses, and other medical staff who provide quality, compassionate care to families throughout the Brooks City Base community and surrounding areas.

“We are excited to have this new presence in the Brooks City Base community,” said Greg Seiler, Chief Executive Officer of Methodist Hospital | Metropolitan. “We have always served this community from our hospital’s campus and can now provide excellent emergency care much closer to home.”

METHODIST HOSPITAL | STONE OAK IS THE FIRST TO BRING ADVANCED, DUAL-ENERGY CT IMAGING TO THE STONE OAK AREA

Methodist Hospital | Stone Oak hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate their newest technological advancement, the SOMATOM® Force, a dual source computed tomography (CT) scanner. The arrival of this breakthrough technology made Methodist Hospital | Stone Oak the first hospital within the Stone Oak area to offer advanced CT technology to patients and physicians, providing high accuracy, low dose, and stunning, highresolution, information-rich images. This technology enables advanced imaging for all patients, including some of the most challenging: young children, patients with renal insufficiency, and patients who are unable to hold their breath. It’s also fast, gentle, and spacious, – providing patients with the comfort they want, and clinicians with the confidence they need.

“Our new CT scanner represents a dramatic leap forward in our technological advancements, and exemplifies our commitment to exceptional, safe, and quality care for patients at Methodist Hospital | Stone Oak,” shared Jeff

Wilson, Chief Executive Officer. “It helps improve diagnostic confidence and provides a positive patient experience for even more people in our communities.”

This technology offers physicians and staff the ability to perform scans with freezing motion. As one of the industry’s fastest and most versatile scanning modes, it allows the user to perform an entire adult chest, abdomen, and pelvis study in only one second, so patients don’t need to hold their breath. It can also enable low-dose imaging in lung and colon exams. Patients who are diagnosed with lung or colon cancer are likely to undergo additional follow-up imaging studies that can now be delivered at a continually low dose to enable more decisive treatment and posttherapy evaluations.