In 1979 a group of physicians and business men founded the Southwest General Hospital in San Antonio, Texas. This institution was created by the commitment of providing accessible medical care through advanced technology in a compassionate, kind and healing environment. A special feature of the South West General Hospital is that patients are encouraged to being part in their healthcare; they are allowed to make decisions about the physicians and hospital they trust to provide care.
The Southwest General Hospital offers services including intensive care, emergency, psychiatric services, medical/surgical, rehabilitation, perinatal /women's services, likewise a Diabetes Wound Care Center, a Hyperbaric Medicine Center and Continuing Medical Education (CME) for the staff.
Physicians specialized in emergency care are able 24 hours a day to provide attention in those emergency situations. The rehabilitation unit has inpatient and outpatient programs adapted to help people of all ages to accept the life changes produced by strokes, amputations or fractures. The main objective of the Rehabilitation Unit is to provide a return to independent living through different kinds of therapies. In addition, the psychiatric services provide adult and geriatric patients programs and treatments to reach stabilization of the acute psychiatric illnesses.
The Wound Care Center and the Hyperbaric Medicine Center at the Southwest General Hospital are services that have the latest technology for the treatment of patients with diabetes, who needs special care when they have injuries in their feet or other extremities.
In Southwest General Hospital the most valuable assets are their employees. They spend their life providing excellent healthcare services, protecting confidential and sensitive information, relating to people with responsibility and ethics and and working safely and accepting responsibility and accountability.