Facilities
Christus Santa Rosa Children's Hospital
Pediatric house staff provide care for children on two general pediatric ward services, an inpatient pediatric hematology/oncology service, a pediatric intensive care unit, and the children's emergency center. The interns provide care for an annualized average of 6-10 patients each on the general ward services and the hematology/oncology service.
There are 2,600 admissions annually to the general pediatric ward services, 600 admissions to the hematology/oncology service, and 1,400 admissions to the 17 bed PICU. Patients admitted to the Children's Hospital come not only from the immediate San Antonio metropolitan area but also from west and deep South Texas. More than 400 patients per year are admitted after land or air transport by the Children's Hospital's highly skilled physician/nurse transport team. There are 56,000 annual visits to the dedicated Children's Hospital emergency center.
University Hospital is a facility of the University Health System, a tax supported agency whose primary responsibility is to furnish medical care to indigent and needy residents of San Antonio and the surrounding Bexar County. University Hospital serves the general Bexar County population and referred private patients of the Health Science Center faculty. Over 3,000 newborns are admitted annually to the Term Newborn Nursery and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at University Hospital. A typical daily census in the NICU includes 16 level III patients and 12 level II patients.
There are over 700 admissions annually to the NICU, including 500 admissions to level III beds, which are occupied by ventilator and/or oxygen dependent infants. Level II care is provided for pre-term babies, infants of diabetic mothers, newborns with birth defects, post-surgical cases and other infants requiring intensive nursing care or a high level of observation. A team of neonatal nurse practitioners supervised directly by faculty neonatologists ensures that the patient volume on the resident NICU team is not excessive.
In addition to the nursery services, University Hospital has a 12 bed Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and 17 Pediatric Transition Unit beds. House staff care for the patients on the Pediatric Transition Unit while the patients in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at University Hospital are under the care of hospitalists. There are 1,600 children's admissions annually including 1,050 admissions to the pediatric medical services and 550 pediatric surgical patients. Interns assigned to the Pediatric Transition Unit have an annualized average of 6-10 patients for whom they are responsible.
Janey Briscoe Children's Center
State-of-the art facility designed to provide comprehensive pediatric medical services with a focus on cardiovascular surgery, trauma, and solid organ transplants such as kidney, liver or heart.
CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Goldsbury Center for Children and Families
Located across the street from CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Children's Hospital, the Center for Children and Families houses the general pediatric clinics, continuity clinic, and a comprehensive array of pediatric sub-specialty clinics. The Children's Hospital library and an array of small and large conference rooms with state-of-the-art audiovisual equipment occupy the fifth floor of the Goldsbury Center. There are 55,000 annual general pediatric and sub-specialty patient visits to the Center.
The Texas Diabetes Institute focus is health, not just medicine. Their goal is to provide ongoing state-of-the-art preventive care through innovative activities which will enable us to detect and intervene in the progression of this devastating disease.
Residents spend four half-days per week at the Children's Center at the Texas Diabetes Institute, an ambulatory clinic of the University Hospital, as part of the pediatric endocrinology rotation. The team approach to the management of chronic illness, particularly diabetes mellitus type I and II and obesity, is stressed. Multiple certified diabetes educators and dieticians are available to assist the resident in managing the diabetic child while gaining a better understanding of resources and systems of care.
Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC)
Brooke Army Medical Center has provided comprehensive training in all aspects of Adolescent Medicine, including all aspects of medical and psychological care for adolescents and young adults since 1972. With over 6000 adolescent visits in each clinic per year, the setting is ideal for training both residents and fellows in Adolescent Medicine.
Center of Hope for Child Development
UT Health Science Center's Center of Hope for Child Development is a teaching facility where most of the clinics for the required 4-week block rotation in normal and abnormal behavior and development occur. There are six or seven half-day outpatient clinical experiences per week at the site including developmental/behavioral clinics, preemie follow-up clinics, autism clinic, school dysfunction clinic, spina bifida clinic, cerebral palsy clinic, fetal alcohol syndrome clinic and genetics clinic.
CAMP
Children's Association for Maximum Potential (CAMP) provides a wide range of recreational, respite, rehabilitative and training services for children with disabilities and their families. Medical support is central to the program, ensuring all children, regardless of their medical needs, can participate in all programs & activities.
Residents rotating on the child behavior/development service during June, July and August participate in CAMP. CAMP are members of an interdisciplinary team with 20-25 campers with disabilities assigned to each resident within the context of that team. The residents provide ongoing chronic medical care and treat acute illnesses or the injuries associated with participation in a recreational program.