By HFT Staff

The first bit of dirt has been turned and construction is officially underway for a full-service hospital that will serve the rapidly growing South Side community in Bexar County. 

When it opens in 2027, University Health Palo Alto Hospital, located on a 68-acre campus next to Texas A&M – San Antonio, will be a five-story acute care hospital with a connected medical office building.  

The initial 166 inpatient beds can be expanded to 286 as the South Side population grows. It will have a 24/7 Emergency Department, labor and delivery unit, NICU, inpatient units, operating rooms, radiology and lab services. 

The hospital groundbreaking follows the beginning of construction in December for Vida, a separate multi-specialty healthcare center and headquarters for the University Health Institute for Public Health. That clinical building, located on the same Palo Alto campus, is scheduled to open in 2026.  

University Health’s expansion, aimed at providing inpatient services closer to families’ homes, includes the groundbreaking for another community hospital in February.