San Antonio VA Medical Center (va South Texas Healthcare System)

7400 Merton Minter Blvd., San Antonio, TX 78229 · (210) 617-5300

VA hospitalVeterans Health AdministrationEmergency room

San Antonio VA Medical Center (va South Texas Healthcare System) is a Veterans Affairs hospital in San Antonio, Texas (Bexar County). It has an emergency room and holds 5 of 5 stars in CMS's overall quality rating. In CMS's patient survey it scores 4 of 5 stars, and 79% of patients said they would definitely recommend it.

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★★★★★CMS overall quality rating

★★★★★patients' own rating (621 surveys)

Quality and patient experience

What patients say

★★★★★4 of 5 · 621 surveys

79%would definitely recommend the hospital US typical 71%

81%rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 US typical 72%

Rated by patients

Nurses communicated well★★★★★
Doctors communicated well★★★★★
Staff explained medicines★★★★★
Information for going home★★★★★
Room was clean★★★★★
Quiet at night★★★★★

Deaths within 30 days of admission lower is better

Heart attack

11.0%

Heart failure

6.6%

Pneumonia

10.0%

COPD

6.3%

Back in the hospital within 30 days lower is better

Heart attack

14.7%

Heart failure

22.3%

Pneumonia

19.1%

Infections and complications lower is better

Central-line bloodstream infections

0.45

≈ Same as US

Catheter urinary tract infections

0.33

✓ Better than US

Complications after hip or knee replacement

3.6%

Serious complications (CMS safety index)

1.10

≈ Same as US

US typical hospital. Infection figures are a ratio: 1.00 means as many infections as expected for a hospital like this one. CMS adjusts these rates for how sick the patients are; a small gap from the typical hospital can be chance, so a verdict is shown only where CMS gives one.

Source: CMS Care Compare, measurement periods ending up to September 2025.

Cash and insurer prices for this hospital haven't been added yet. The hospital publishes them on its own price page.

This hospital has no Medicare stay data for 2024. Medicare data covers mostly patients 65 and older, so psychiatric, children's and very small hospitals often don't appear.

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