Texas Vista’s president, Jon Turton, said, “TVMC does not want to close, and the consequences of our closure will cause an immediate public health crisis for the city’s most vulnerable patients.”
Steward wants Bexar County and county-owned University Health to come to its rescue — but it isn’t going to happen.When county staff met with Texas Vista last month, its leaders asked the county for a $5 million to $10 million bailout. On Feb. 24, University Health received from Steward a proposal for takeover with a deadline of three business days, on March 1. Of course, there was no deal. Three days to make a decision about an investment of millions into a deteriorating facility is absurd.
Steward has publicly attempted to guilt or shame University Health into buying its hospital, saying it has been,But Steward is to blame. We agree with University Health President and CEO George Hernandez who said during a meeting with this Editorial Board: University Health has a $500 million deal with Texas A&M University-San Antonio, TAMUSA, to build a 256-bed hospital near the campus. Suggestions that the new hospital be built where Texas Vista sits are impractical for reasons of congested land space, ownership of the surrounding property, and flipping old infrastructure into new infrastructure.
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