{"id":323966,"date":"2025-10-22T13:50:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T13:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/323966\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T13:50:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T13:50:20","slug":"new-18m-wheatley-clinic-opened-on-san-antonios-east-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/323966\/","title":{"rendered":"New $18M Wheatley clinic opened on San Antonio’s East Side"},"content":{"rendered":"

University Health opened a new $18 million health clinic on the East Side of San Antonio on Monday, the first of four openings to come with the Bexar County hospital system\u2019s planned $1.7 billion expansion.<\/p>\n

Located at 3860 I-10 East, University Health Wheatley offers walk-in, urgent care seven days a week. The clinic staffs primary care and medical specialists, has a full-service pharmacy, as well as the ability to provide X-rays, ultrasound and laboratory services.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Officials gathered at the Wheatley clinic on Saturday to celebrate the opening, which marks a significant step forward in expanding access to health care in the area. <\/p>\n

The East Side of San Antonio is historically the heart of the Black community in the city and has long been underserved. The clinic is named after Phillis Wheatley, known as the first Black woman in the U.S. to publish a book of poems.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"Members of the Bexar County Commissioners Court and University Health officials cut a ribbon at the Wheatley health clinic\u2019s opening celebration on Saturday. Credit: Courtesy \/ University Health<\/p>\n

The new clinic will be followed by the opening of University Health Vida clinic, as well as two five-story hospitals<\/a> on the Southwest and Northeast sides of San Antonio. The hospital system also recently purchased<\/a> a shuttered CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Hospital in the South Texas Medical Center that could soon become \u201cBabcock Specialty Hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n

Breaking generational cycles<\/p>\n

\u201cAccess to care has been a challenge for people living on the East Side of our community,\u201d said Dr. Margaret Kelley, a member of the Bexar County Hospital District Board of Managers, at the opening celebration. \u201cThe goal of this center is bigger than treating illness, it\u2019s about prevention and breaking generational cycles of health problems, like diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure in our families.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Bexar County Commissioners Court allocated $30 million to University Health using American Rescue Plan Act funds to support the opening of new clinics. The Wheatley clinic cost $18 million and the Vida clinic cost about $42 million.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe saw the health care gaps that needed to be addressed,\u201d Bexar County Judge Peter Sakai said. \u201cEveryone deserves the opportunity to live a healthy life. That is a basic right. This will break down the inequities of access to health care by building up the infrastructure of health care.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"University Health officials provided children\u2019s activities during the Wheatley health clinic\u2019s opening celebration on Oct. 18, 2025. Credit: Courtesy \/ University Health<\/p>\n

The opening of the Vida clinic, located on the Southwest Side near Texas A&M University-San Antonio, will follow closely behind Wheatley. <\/p>\n

University Health Vida will open in phases, seeing its first patient in mid-November and fully opening in January,\u00a0 according to University Health Director of Communications Elizabeth Allen.<\/p>\n

Rheumatology and gastroenterology specialists will be present at the Vida clinic, in addition to six family medicine physicians. That may shift depending on patients\u2019 needs, Allen said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"University Health opened a new $18 million health clinic on the East Side of San Antonio on Monday,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":323967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,89568,81090,161728,146739,7202,161729,7203,358,7453,3187,7815,67,586,132,5230,18722,88333,161730,161731,68,2969,11887,161732],"class_list":{"0":"post-323966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arpa","10":"tag-bexar-county-judge-peter-sakai","11":"tag-dr-margaret-kelley","12":"tag-judge-peter-sakai","13":"tag-san-antonio","14":"tag-san-antonio-east-side","15":"tag-sanantonio","16":"tag-texas","17":"tag-top-story","18":"tag-tx","19":"tag-typedaily","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-university-health","25":"tag-university-health-system","26":"tag-university-health-vida-clinic","27":"tag-university-health-wheatley","28":"tag-us","29":"tag-usa","30":"tag-wc-less-than-500","31":"tag-wheatley-clinic"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115418145503551320","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}