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University Health System and UnitedHealthcare have announced a renewal of their relationship. The new, three-year contract ensures people enrolled in UnitedHealthcare commercial plans have continued network access to high quality hospital care at University Hospital, home to South Texas’ leading Level I Trauma Center.

The Injury Prevention team from University Health System will distribute free gun locks at their annual Holiday Safety Fair at Ingram Park Mall.

A professional photographer is working with the non-profit organization Flashes of Hope to capture the spirit of pediatric cancer patients at University Hospital.

Two medical-surgical units at University Hospital have become the first in the city to receive the prestigious PRISM Award, co-sponsored by the Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses, AMSN, and the Medical-Surgical Nursing Certification Board, MSNCB. The award, which stands for Premier Recognition in the Specialty of Med-Surg, recognizes exceptional nursing practice, leadership and patient outcomes in hospital medical-surgical units. “You are all a shining example for others of exemplary...

The Texas Diabetes Institute, celebrating its 20th anniversary, will look back at its founding and recognize those who have made contributions in the treatment, prevention and public awareness of diabetes at its annual Wall of Honor luncheon.

As we head into the Veterans Day weekend, University Health System will honor the men and women who served, and sacrificed, defending our freedom. A significant number of University Health System’s more than 9,000 staff members and physicians are veterans, and this annual tradition is a special way to pay tribute to them and to all veterans. As service members they put on their uniforms to protect our values and freedom. After they take off their uniforms, we’ve seen how these...

A line of children and mothers drove the first ceremonial shovels into the sand today, and the Children’s Chorus of San Antonio raised their voices in celebration of the construction of a new hospital — the only one in South Texas dedicated exclusively to the needs of women and children. The Women’s and Children’s Hospital at University Hospital will be a 12-story, state-of-the-art, 300-bed, half-million-square-foot facility with a 900-space patient and visitor parking...

Every year our Child Life team organizes a Halloween parade for our pediatric patients. We didn’t want our littlest unicorns and superheroes to miss out on the spooky fun so we brought it to them!

In April, for the first time in this country, we paired two living liver donors with two patients who needed liver transplants.

Nationwide, more than 40 child pedestrians are hit by cars and killed or injured every day in the United States.