The South Texas Medical Center (STMC) or

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Hospital District consists of of medical-related facilities on the northwest side of

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, United States. STMC, which directly serves 38 counties, consists of forty-five medically related institutions; separate medical, dental and nursing schools, five higher educational institutions, twelve hospitals and five specialty institutions. These facilities combined currently total over 4,200 patient beds. In 2009, STMC was home to more than $350 million in construction projects. More than $1 billion in new construction projects are currently planned through 2014.
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Staff and budget

South Texas Medical Center (seen from downtown San Antonio)

In 2009, 27,884 persons were directly employed at the center, and the combined budget of all entities at the South Texas Medical Center totaled $3.3 billion. STMC is the San Antonio area's second largest employer.

Research and development

San Antonio's Biosciences industry employs over 100,000 people.See: The largest areas of research are conducted by institutes in or around the South Texas Medical Center. These include the oncology division of one of the world's top five biotechnology firms, the world's largest Phase I clinical trials program for new anti-cancer drugs, and the new $200 million Children's Cancer Research Institute. San Antonio also houses the world's largest genomics computing cluster and the state's public bank for stem cell-rich umbilical cord blood.

Academics

Central to the medical center is the

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and its teaching hospital: The

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, which is the source of employment for 12,000 people. The Audie Murphy VA Hospital, CTRC,

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, Texas Cancer Clinic, the

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, Texas Neuroscience Institute, Villa Rosa, St Luke, and 11 Methodist hospitals also have affiliated programs or projects with the UT Health Science Center. The

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also has a campus located in the eastern part of the South Texas Medical Center, where its

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school is located. UIW has affiliated programs with the

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has a nursing training program at STMC, and the

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has joint programs with

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and School of Allied Health Sciences. The

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is also located in the South Texas Medical Center. The

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's School of Pharmacy also has research facilities and staff located in the medical center. Also situated in the South Texas Medical Center is Health Careers High School, a health professions-based magnet school of Northside ISD that enrolls just under 1,000 students from around Bexar County.

Gallery

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Member institutions

Member institutions with facilities and offices in the Center are: Montage UTHSCSA copy

References

External sources

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