The new San Antonio State Hospital increases the facility’s capacity by 38 beds with another 40 maximum-security beds also planned.
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission opened the new San Antonio State Hospital on April 9, 2024.State officials opened the doors recently to a new psychiatric hospital in San Antonio, replacing an aging facility and increasing capacity none too soon.
The San Antonio State Hospital has been around since 1892, offering inpatient adult psychiatric services to people from across 50 South Texas counties. The hospital serves about 270 people a year, providing psychiatric care for people as young as 12Patients may receive services for several days or up to several years, depending on the circumstances of their admission.
At the campus, just 268 beds are “currently online,” Vazquez said. “We’re in the process of moving into the new facility. When operations fully begin in the new hospital, HHSC will evaluate our capacity.”two years prior. “We’re excited to be able to offer our San Antonio State Hospital patients care in a state-of-the-art building that will help facilitate their recovery,” Cecile Erwin Young, Texas Health and Human Services’ executive commissioner, said in a statement.
In 2023, as COVID-19 delayed cases and caused staffing shortages at state hospitals, the average wait for a hospital bed increased to more than nine months, causing that population to double over the last three years and creating a bottleneck in the jail. of jail deputies in an effort to improve recruitment and retention of officers. But the county stopped short of joining Dallas County in suing the state over the issue.
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