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M e t h o d i s t H e a l t h c a r e
STONE OAK
BREAKS
GROUND
METHODIST STONE OAK HOSPITAL
staff and vol-
unteers, who were there when the hospital opened its
doors
7
years ago, broke ground on a
100,000
-square-foot
expansion on April
29
.
Joining in with shovels were two of the first babies born
at Methodist Stone Oak Hospital when it opened seven
years ago. Helping celebrate with music was the Lopez
Middle School Orchestra from the Stone Oak Community.
The expansion will include more than
70
additional
beds;
36
surgical step-down beds; and a
15
-bed acute re-
habilitation facility for patients needing physical therapy,
occupational therapy and speech therapy.
The expansion will also provide an additional
20
beds
in its women’s services,
6
additional beds in the neonatal
intensive care unit,
2
additional labor and delivery rooms,
and a third C-section suite.
This is the third expansion for the hospital, which
opened in March
2009
. Today it employs
1,000
people.
The facility sees
12,000
patients for inpatient services and
8,000
for outpatient services and cares for
30,000
patients
in the emergency department each year.
A three-story structure will be built above an existing
single-story building, which will include a
20,000
-square-
foot renovation. A three-level,
238
-space parking garage
will also be constructed. The expansion is expected to be
completed by spring
2017.
QUALITY OF LIFE,
SENSE OF COMMUNITY
New sculpture at Metropolitan Methodist Hospital aims to uplift
C OMMU N I T Y L E A D E R S
joined officials from
Metropolitan Methodist Hospital, a campus of Methodist
Hospital, in unveiling the city’s newest piece of public art,
Modern Tribe
, at the hospital on June
23
.
The sculpture, created by local artist Luis L. Lopez,
will be a community landmark on the hospital campus at
1310
McCullough Avenue and Brooklyn Avenue. Joining
Greg Seiler, CEO of the hospital, and Lopez in the cer-
emony were City Councilman District
1
Robert Trevino
and State Representative District
119
Roland Gutierrez.
“With this sculpture, we celebrate the well-being of our
community and the addition of a signature public art piece
to our Tobin Hill neighborhood and to downtown San
Antonio,” Seiler says. “As downtown’s most comprehensive
hospital we serve a diverse part of the city.
Modern Tribe
represents this diversity as well as an important sense of
community. Just as we work to heal our body, we see this
work as nourishing the soul.”
Metropolitan Methodist Hospital has been working
with community and civic leaders to enhance the neigh-
borhood around the hospital. “This sculpture reflects
the collaboration that has been going on throughout the
community as we all work together to make Tobin Hill
a great place to live,” Trevino says. “We appreciate the
commitment that the hospital is making to the area and
the investment, not only in our healthcare, but in quality
of life and sense of community.”
The 30-foot-high aluminum sculpture features circular
shapes, traditionally symbols of wholeness and infinity,
which are painted different colors to represent diversity.
The work will be lit at night to be seen from a distance.
“The towering presence will be a manifest of a healthy
society that will be inclusive of the whole universal race,”
Lopez says. “It will serve to inspire and uplift the human
psyche.”
REFLECTIVE LANDMARK: Artist Luis L. Lopez created
Modern Tribe
to celebrate community and diversity.
From left: Lopez and CEO Greg Seiler.
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