The South Texas Medical Center (STMC) consists of 900 acres of medical-related facilities in northwest San Antonio San Antonio is the second-largest city in the state of Texas and the seventh-largest city in the United States with a population of 1.3 million. The city is the seat of Bexar County. Located in the American Southwest and the northern part of South Texas, San Antonio is the center of Tejano culture and Texas tourism.[citation needed] The city is.
The STMC, which directly serves 38 counties, consists of forty-five medically related institutions; separate medical, dental and nursing schools, five higher educational institutions, twelve hospitals and five specialty institutions. These facilities combined currently total over 4,200 patient beds.[1]
The STMC is the one of the busiest medical centers in the Southern United States The Southern United States—commonly referred to as the American South, Dixie, Down South, or simply the South—constitutes a large distinctive region in the southeastern and south-central United States. Because of the region's unique cultural and historic heritage, including Native Americans; early European settlements of English, Scotch-Irish, with 5 million outpatient visits in 2008.[2]
In 2009 the STMC was home to more than $350 million in construction projects. More than $1 billion in new construction projects are currently planned through 2014. [3]
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