South Texas Veterans Health Care System (STVHCS) is comprised of the Audie L. Murphy Memorial VA Hospital, the Kerrville VA Hospital, and the Satellite Clinic Division. STVHCS is a 268 bed facility providing primary, secondary and tertiary health care in medicine, surgery, psychiatry, and rehabilitation medicine. It also supports a 90 bed Community Living Center, a 30-bed Spinal Cord Injury Center, an eight-bed Bone Marrow Transplant Unit, and a Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center. Affiliated with the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, the system has an active ambulatory care program with satellite outpatient clinics in San Antonio and Victoria. Community Based Clnics are located in Beeville, Kingsville, New Braunfels, and Seguin. The special needs of the Vietnam era Veterans are met with Veteran Outreach Centers located in San Antonio. The system dedicates 28,000 square feet to medical research. There are more than 150 research investigators conducting more than 500 research activities in areas such as aging, renal disease, diabetes, HIV/AIDs, and cancer treatment and therapy. The system has an NIH-funded General Clinical Research Center, the Veterans Evidence-Based Research Dissemination Implementation Center (VERDICT), and is a Cochrane Centre site. The Biomedical Research Foundation of South Texas was created in 1990 to support the research mission of the system. The Audie L. Murphy Memorial VA Hospital received the Vice-President's National Performance Review Office's Hammer Award for its unique development of sharing agreements and joint procurements with DoD, state, and private-sector facilities.The Kerrville VA Hospital is the recipient of the Scissors Award for their primary care system initiative.

Affiliations

University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Authorized Beds

268

Type of Facility

Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Care

Special Programs

CHAMPVA
TRICARE
Community Living Center
Kerrville Transitional Care Center
General Clinical Research Center
Spinal Cord Injury Center
The Women's Place-VA Model of Care

Clinical Programs of Excellence

Cardiac Surgery Program
Health Care for Homeless Veterans
Human Immunodeficiency Virus Care
Home Based Primary Care