UT Health San Antonio Multispecialty & Research Hospital
- Addressing a projected 56 percent rise in cancer cases in South Texas, the UT Health San Antonio Multispecialty & Research Hospital reduces patient travel burdens with localized advanced care.
- The 448,000-square-foot facility combines clinical care, education, and research in one facility, fostering real-time learning and collaboration.
- To deliver the medical school’s first hospital, the design team, including Page, now Stantec and Alamo Architects, had to create a new platform for clinical learning that supports teaching, mentorship, and rapid decision-making alongside patient care.
Within a 100-mile radius of San Antonio, cancer volumes are projected to increase by 56 percent over the next decade—more than double the national growth rate of 22 percent, according to strategic advisory firm Scout Strategy, which is part of Stantec. This translates to roughly 14,000 additional cancer cases annually by 2033.
Historically, many patients from the San Antonio, Austin, Corpus Christi, Laredo, and Rio Grande Valley areas in Texas have traveled three to five hours to reach specialty providers in Houston. That long journey, often repeated for follow-up visits, has meant added costs, physical strain, and sometimes skipped appointments due to the burden of travel.
UT Health San Antonio, the academic health center of The University of Texas at San Antonio (UT San Antonio) comprising academics, research, and clinical services, recognized the need for advanced inpatient care, especially cancer treatment, in South Texas. To address the issue, UT San Antonio set out to deliver its first hospital—a project that would advance a long-standing institutional goal to bring academic medicine, research, and clinical care together in a single integrated setting…