Bexar County Commissioners Court will decide Tuesday whether to back a resolution seeking to protect Brooke Army Medical Center’s training mission as concerns simmer over Methodist Healthcare’s pursuit of a high-level trauma center.
Methodist Healthcare is at the start of a year-long process to be designated as a Level II trauma center at its flagship hospital on the Northwest Side — a proposal the system has mulled over for years, over the objections of BAMC, city and county leaders.
BAMC and Bexar County-owned University Hospital have the only Level I trauma centers in San Antonio, allowing them to treat the city’s most severely injured patients…