Methodist Hospital, opened in 1963, is the flagship facility in San Antonio’s renowned South Texas Medical Center. It has grown to be Methodist Healthcare System’s most comprehensive hospital, which has significantly contributed to Methodist being San Antonio’s largest and most preferred healthcare provider. Methodist Hospital maintains an award-winning reputation with a commitment to serving humanity to honor God by providing exceptional and cost-effective healthcare, accessible to all.

Offering a broad range of specialties, Methodist Hospital’s excellence is a reflection of the key service lines provided including:

• Cardiology—San Antonio’s only heart transplant program
• Oncology
• Emergency medicine
• Bone and marrow stem cell transplants
• Neurosciences
• Women’s services
• Orthopedics

The hospital is also a certified Comprehensive Stroke Center and is considered a global leader in robotics, having the largest program in the nation.

1. Your safety is our priority. Our goal is to make you feel safe and secure while you are a patient in one of our hospitals. We assure a standard of quality care through proactive, ongoing training for staff and credentialing processes for our physicians. Methodist Healthcare's mission is to promote and support the health status of the community by providing and constantly improving the delivery of quality, innovative health care services in a cost-effective way, while providing charitable care to people in our region.

   Every member of our staff is dedicated to:

   Providing you with a safe, healthy and secure environment
   Performing their jobs carefully and completely
   Using safe and effective practices and technologies
   Providing better quality care based on the unique needs of our international patients
   Responding to your wants and needs in a timely manner
   Ensuring timely communication between caregivers and patients by answering questions regarding your treatment and health, providing you with specific information about your care and explaining changes about your treatment

Our Values
Methodist Healthcare has evolved to meet the growing needs of the greater San Antonio community, but our commitment since opening our first hospital in 1963 remains true: to continuously improve the health and wellness of our community by "Serving Humanity to Honor God."

For those involved in designing, delivering and consistently improving Methodist Healthcare services, it is a healing ministry and a sacred trust. We dedicate our professional lives to those we serve and to each other.

Our Mission
The mission of Methodist Healthcare is ‘Serving Humanity to Honor God’ by providing exceptional and cost-effective health care accessible to all. Furthermore, our vision is for Methodist Healthcare to be a world-class health care provider, continually raising the standards of performance excellence and advancing the health status of the community. In doing so, we acknowledge our values of Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence. On an individual basis, we commit to:

Cure when we can
Escort to death’s door when we must
Always create healing experiences
 

We know people in the greater San Antonio area have a choice in health care providers and hospitals, which is why we’re proud most choose our facilities.

Methodist Healthcare is the largest provider of health care services in the South Texas region and enjoys the highest consumer preference share of services as measured by the National Research Corporation (NRC). Methodist has also won the San Antonio Express-News’ People’s Choice Award every year since its inception and the NRC Consumer Choice Award a dozen times – more than almost any other hospital organization in Texas.

Methodist Healthcare now operates nine San Antonio hospitals, a freestanding emergency center in San Antonio and a freestanding emergency center in Boerne, Texas. Methodist Healthcare manages the Val Verde Regional Medical Center in Del Rio, Texas; Frio Regional Hospital in Pearsall, Texas and Medina Regional Hospital in Hondo, Texas.