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KEEPING WELL is published as a
community service for the friends
and patrons of METHODIST
HEALTHCARE, 8109 Fredericksburg
Road, San Antonio, TX 78229,
telephone
210-575-0355
,
website
www.SAHealth.com.
Jaime Wesolowski
President and CEO
Palmira Arellano
Vice President of Marketing
and Public Relations
METHODIST
HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
8109 Fredericksburg Road
San Antonio, TX 78229
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U.S. Postage
PAID
San Antonio, TX
Permit No. 1409
M e t h o d i s t H e a l t h c a r e
FREE
TRANSPORTATION OFFERED
To schedule a ride on Health Bus or Well Waldo’s Wheels, call 210-647-7433.
HEALTH BUS AND WELL WALDO’S WHEELS
Hop on board Health Bus for adults or Well Waldo’s
Wheels for children and expectant moms. In 2015,
nearly 12,000 San Antonians and Bexar County resi-
dents turned to Methodist Healthcare’s free bus service
to get them on the road to recovery or to receive the
medical care they needed. The bus will pick you up at
your home, drop you off close to the entrance of your
doctor’s office or the hospital, and later pick you up
and take you home. Health Bus serves people living
in certain ZIP code areas who need help getting to
appointments at Northeast Methodist Hospital and
Metropolitan Methodist Hospital, both campuses of
Methodist Hospital.
For Northeast Methodist Hospital, residents living in
the following ZIP code areas can receive this free service:
78148 78233 78217 78247 78239
and parts of:
78109 78218 78154 78244
For Metropolitan Methodist Hospital, residents of
the following ZIP codes are served:
78202 78203 78204 78205 78206
78207 78208 78210 78212 78215
78225 78226 78234 78237
Some areas of these ZIP codes are also covered:
78201 78209 78211 78213 78214
78216 78219 78220 78221 78222 78223
To schedule a ride on Health Bus, call
210-MHS-
RIDE
(
210-647-7433
) from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday, at least 48 hours in advance of your ap-
pointment or scheduled admission to the hospital.
For children and expectant moms, Well Waldo’s
Wheels provides free transportation to doctors’ offices
in these ZIP code areas or to doctors’ offices in the
South Texas Medical Center. Expectant moms who
are preregistered to deliver their baby at Methodist
Hospital; Metropolitan Methodist Hospital, a campus
of Methodist Hospital; or Methodist Stone Oak
Hospital and live in these ZIP codes can arrange for
a ride to their prenatal doctors’ appointments as well:
78202 78203 78204 78205 78206
78207 78208 78210 78212 78215
78225 78226 78237
and parts of:
78201 78211 78214 78219 78220 78221
78223 78224 78228 78241
Do you worry about how you will get to your next doctor’s appointment? Do you use a
wheelchair and need a little extra assistance getting to the hospital for outpatient testing?
Do you have a child with special needs, but lack a vehicle that can accommodate your child’s
medical transportation needs? Methodist Healthcare has the answer to these questions.
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