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Health Collaborative Member Organizations
Baptist Health System is a leading provider of health care in San Antonio and South Texas. They System includes five acute-care hospitals (Baptist Medical Center, North Central Baptist Hospital, Northeast Baptist Hospital, Southeast Baptist Hospital, and St. Luke’s Baptist Hospital) which offer 1,753 licensed beds. Baptist Health System has been recognized as a Solucient 100 Top Hospitals. All five hospitals have earned Accredited Chest Pain Center designation, as well as Primary Stroke Center Certification. Medicare has designated each as Texas’ only Medicare Value Based Care Centers. The system also includes Baptist Regional Children’s Center, Baptist Cancer Center, HealthLink Wellness and Fitness Center, Baptist M&S Imaging Centers, community health and wellness programs, ambulatory services, rehabilitation services, medical office buildings, San Antonio AirLIFE air medical transport, School of Health Professions, and other health-related services and affiliations. 
Ms. Kristina Gillen serves as
the Director of Corporate
Relations, Sponsorships, and
Outreach Marketing
Ms. Gillen also serves as a member
of The Health Collaborative
Board of Directors
The Bexar County Department of Community Resources (DCR) is charged with leading the way in the area of community health, and has created a proactive approach to meeting the needs of Bexar County citizens. In October 2007 the Bexar County Commissioner’s Court authorized the formulation of a Community Health Division within the Department of Community Resources. The division’s goal is to initiate, coordinate, and administer programs that will improve the health of Bexar County’s citizens. Community Health will develop and maintain community partnerships in order to achieve its goal. Mission The mission of the Bexar County Department of Community Resources is to facilitate significant change in Bexar County through the investment of appropriate resources in eight divisions. Each division focuses on its area of specialty to keep “Changing lives – Changing communities” through the careful, deliberate use of appropriate tools and resources. The San Antonio area is comprised of Bexar, Comal, Guadalupe, and Wilson counties and receives millions of dollars in funding from the federal government. The Bexar County Judge serves as the Chief Elected Official for the funds and appoints members to planning councils.
Ms. Charlene Doria-Ortiz serves as the Community Health
Program Manager for Bexar County Department of Community Resources
Ms. Doria-Ortiz also serves as a Member of The Health Collaborative Board of Directors
Our History
CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Health System was founded in 1869 by the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word. The sisters heeded the call from the Catholic bishop of Texas to care the multitude of sick, infirm, and orphaned in the Texas frontier. When the sisters arrived in San Antonio, the population was only 12,000 and there was no public hospital – until the sisters founded CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Hospital.
From these humble beginnings, CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Health System has grown and flourished just as South Texas has grown. We remain the only Catholic faith-based, non-profit health care system in San Antonio and New Braunfels. Our healing ministry now includes five full-service hospitals with 1,159 licensed beds, and a number of specialty centers.
Our Service Guarantee
We remain dedicated as ever to extend the healing ministries of Jesus Christ by providing the highest quality medical care and services available. In keeping with our mission, we guarantee to those we are privileged to serve:
Our Mission
To extend the healing ministry of Jesus Christ
Our Core Values
Dignity: Respect for the worth of every person, recognition and commitment to the value of diverse individuals and perspectives, and special concern for the poor and underserved.
Integrity: Honesty, justice, and consistency in all relationships.
Excellence: High standards of service and performance.
Compassion: Service in a spirit of empathy, love, and concern.
Stewardship: Wise and just use of talents and resources in a collaborative manner.
Our Vision
The vision of CHRISTUS Health, a Catholic, health ministry, will be a leader, a partner, and an advocate in the creation of innovative health and wellness solutions that improve the lives of individuals and of local and global communities so all may experience God’s healing presence and love.
“Our health care ministry is healthy, prosperous, and enduring. Our success has been and will continue to be the strength and commitment of teamwork. At CHRISTUS Santa Rosa we are grateful to our caring associates who diligently work together to provide the highest standards of care to those we are privileged to serve.”
Patrick Carrier
President and CEO
CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Health System
CHRISTUS is the only hospital in San Antonio, and one of only three in Texas, to win the Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence™ seven years in a row by HealthGrades®, which has also named us one of America’s 50 Best Hospitals for the second year in a row. CHRISTUS is the preferred home of the San Antonio SPURS.
 Ms. Rosie Perez serves as Vice President of Mission Integration and Outreach Services at CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Health System
Ms. Perez also serves as a Member of The Health Collaborative Board of Director
Community First Health Plans was established in 1995, by the University Health System, to provide health care coverage to the citizens of Bexar and the seven surrounding counties. As the only locally owned and managed, non-profit health plan in the area, our commitment to our members is to provide great health care benefits backed by outstanding service, delivered by people who live right here in South Texas. As of February 1, 2011, Community First has approximately 131,000 members and leads the market in Medicaid and CHIP enrollment.
Ms. Carol Huber serves as the
Administrative Director of
Strategic Planning and
Business Development at
Community First Health Plans
Ms. Huber also serves as a
Member of The Health
Collaborative Board of Directors
Our Vision
Our Mission
The San Antonio Metropolitan Health District is moving in a new direction towards a high-performance health department. Two key shifts, that have recently taken place, are helping us strive toward this goal. One of those initiatives was the integration of clinical preventive services with University Health System. The move was designed to reduce duplication of services and enhance coordination of care, while simultaneously increasing prevention, early detection, and continuity of care. Another key change is the creation of a new service area within Metro Health called Population-based Services. This division will focus on chronic disease prevention, health education, and wellness while utilizing evidence-based resources. Examples of some of the division’s major initiatives include tobacco cessation and prevention, prevention of alcohol-related health problems, and a focus on chronic health conditions such as asthma, obesity, and diabetes. It is our hope and vision that these key changes, along with our commitment to continuously improve services and programs, and with your partnership, will help us to achieve optimal health for our communities and our environment. The San Antonio Metropolitan Health District is the public health agency charged by State law, City code, and County resolution with the responsibility for providing public health programs in San Antonio and unincorporated areas of Bexar County. Public Health
Public health is centered around three core functions – assessment, assurance, and policy development – and ten essential public health services. The Texas Health and Safety Code uses the ten essential services to guide the work of local health agencies.
Our Heritage Formed in 1995, out of a partnership of Methodist Healthcare Ministries, San Antonio’s largest non-public funding source of community health care, and HCA, the Methodist Healthcare System includes 15 of San Antonio’s most respected health care facilities, located throughout the community. For those involved in designing, delivering, and constantly improving the services of Methodist Healthcare System, it is a healing ministry, a sacred trust, Holy Ground. We dedicate our professional lives to those we serve and to each other. Our Mission Our mission statement of “Serving Humanity to Honor God” defines our ultimate purpose. And that goes far beyond just services and facilities. It was true when we were fist chartered as a single hospital in 1955. And it will be true for every facility of the Methodist Healthcare System well into the next millennium. Methodist Healthcare System cares for the medically underserved of our community in a number of ways. Through the providing of care at our five hospitals to everyone, regardless of ability to pay, and through the direct support of over 30 non-profit health and human service agencies serving the community, as well as through the ongoing support of the Untied Way of San Antonio and Bexar County as the city’s second largest employer with over 7000 associates – Methodist Healthcare is able to reach beyond the 15 facilities and caregivers at its core. Our Purpose The purpose of Methodist Healthcare System is to promote and support the health status of the community by providing and constantly improving the delivery of quality, innovative healthcare services in a cost-effective way, while providing an appropriate amount of charitable care, to people in our region. At each of our facilities located throughout the community, the Methodist Healthcare Systems offers the quality selection of doctors, health care professionals, equipment, facilities, and health services you expect and deserve – from wellness events and preventive medicine to obstetrics, pediatric, cardiology, oncology and a complete range of other health care services.
Ms. Palmira Arellano serves as the
Vice President of Marketing and Public Relations at Methodist Healthcare System
Ms. Arellano also serves as the 2010 – 2011 President of
The Health Collaborative Board of Directors
Methodist Healthcare Ministries (MHM)is a private, faith-based, not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing medical and health-related human services to low-income families and the uninsured in South Texas. These services include primary care medical and dental clinics, support services like counseling, case management and social services, family wellness and parenting programs, and church-based community nursing programs. Methodist Healthcare Ministries also works with similarly-focused organizations and state government in developing more socially conscious public policy. The purpose is to change legislative perspectives and policies so that the root of the problems of the underserved are addressed for the long-term. In addition, Methodist Healthcare Ministries provides financial support to established organizations that are already effectively fulfilling the needs of the underserved in local communities through programs and services that they already operate Mission Statement The mission of the organization is “Serving Humanity to Honor God,” by improving the physical, mental and spiritual health of those least served in the Southwest Texas Conference area of The United Methodist Church.
Ms. Pilar Oates serves as the Executive Director
of Methodist Healthcare Ministries
Ms. Oates also serves as the Past President and
current Member of The Health Collaborative
Board of Directors
Stephen Blanchard, PhD
Dr. Blanchard serves as a Member of
The Health Collaborative
Board of Directors representing community
Professor of Sociology
Director of Sociology Program
Chair of the Department of
Applied Social and Cultural Sciences
Our Lady of the Lake University
Education:
PhD, 1997, The University of Texas at Austin
(Sociology and Population Studies)
MPh, 1991, The University of Texas School of Public Health
BA, 1971, University of Houston (Social History)
Research Interests:
Recently: That ambient mercury has a statistically significant effect on the risk of autism: where ambient mercury is high, the risk of autism is high. Spatial analysis of the relationship using ambient mercury assessments of the Environmental Protection Agency and counts of autism by school district.
More generally: Contextual (composite and global) analysis, macro influences on individual level behavior; social demographics of inequality; hierarchical modeling of social and health differences that partitions individual, group, and place effects, with cross-level interactions; spatial analysis of social and health phenomena
Courses Taught: Social Statistics, Qualitative Methods (Undergraduate and Graduate), Quantitative Methods (Undergraduate and Graduate), Society and Health (Graduate), Demography (Undergraduate and Graduate), Geographic Information Systems as a Tool in Social Science Research, Introduction to Sociology, Sociology of Writing
The Bexar County Hospital District, d/b/a University Health System, is a local governmental entity providing healthcare services for the needy and indigent of Bexar County. University Health System, in partnership with The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSC), is also a nationally-recognized academic medical center offering outstanding care for even the most complex medical/surgical problems. As the third largest public health system in Texas, University Health currently has more than 5,000 employees and an operating budget of $640.5 million for 2006. Patient care facilities include University Hospital, the lead Level I Trauma Center for a 22-county region of South/Central Texas — one of 13 level I centers in Texas. Primary care and outpatient services are offered at six community health centers, including one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive facilities dedicated to the treatment and prevention of Type 2 diabetes, the Texas Diabetes Institute. These University Health locations serve as the primary teaching facilities for the graduate medical education programs of the UTHSC. The medical staff is comprised of more than 1,000 UTHSC faculty physicians and nearly 700 resident physicians. University Health System subsidiary organizations include Community First Health Plans, Inc. a non-profit provider-owned Health Maintenance Organization (HMO), with a current membership of more than 110,000 individuals; and Community Medicine Associates, a non-profit physician practice which provides primary care services at University Health System’s community clinics. San Antonio AirLife, one of the nation’s premiere air medical services, is owned jointly by University Health System and Vanguard Health Systems. AirLife supports University Health’s trauma mission by flying critically-injured patients to University Hospital from within a 70,650-square mile area of Texas. For seven consecutive years, University Health System has beenrecognized by U.S.News & World Report as one of America’s Best Hospitals. For 2006, University Healthrankedamong the “Top 50” hospitals in the U.S. for cardiology and heart surgery, orthopaedics and endocrinology (diabetes care). University is the only health system in San Antonio to receive this recognition.
Ms.Theresa DeLaHaya serves as the Senior Vice President
of Community Health and Clinical Prevention Programs at the University Health System
Ms. DeLaHaya also serves as a Member of The Health Collaborative Board of Director
WellMed Medical Management is a diversified healthcare company and health plan provider serving more than 100,000 patients and Medicare Advantage health plan members in Texasand Florida. WellMed is an industry leader in medical risk management, highly effective disease management and chronic care programs, healthcare delivery services, and more. WellMed is South Texas’ largest physician-owned practice management company and senior-focused medical group, specializing in senior health care since 1990. With more than 35 medical clinics in Texas and Florida, the vision of the healthcare company and insurance provider is to change the face of healthcare delivery for seniors. 
Ms. Carol Zernial serves as
Vice President-Community Relations at
WellMed Medical Management, Inc.
Ms. Zernial also serves as a Member of
The Health Collaborative Board of Directors
The mission of the YMCA is to put Judeo-Christian principles into practice through programs that build a healthy spirit, mind and body for all. The YMCA of Greater San Antonio was founded in 1876, 32 years after the first YMCA was founded in London England. In 1907, volunteers raised enough money to build our first facility in San Antonio, on North Alamo and Third Street. The services provided were an outlet for young men and allowed for them to participate in bible studies, physical activity and educational classes. In 2003 with the leadership of President/CEO Baron Herdelin-Doherty, a past Member of The Health Collaborative Board of Directors, the Vision 2010 plan was set in motion. This plan, developed by the Association Board, task forces, local board members and staff, was designed to focus on Membership Development, Program Enhancement, Financial Development, Image Development, and Capital Development. In 2004, the first improvement came in the form of a balanced operating budget. This allowed us to begin on the four remaining components of the Vision 2010 plan. Since then,
We will make a difference in our communities through three key areas; Youth Development: Nurturing the potential of every child and teen Healthy Living: Improving the nation’s health and well-being Social Responsibility: Giving back and providing support to our neighbors
 Ms. Jill Tramel serves as the
Interim CEO of the YMCA of
Greater San Antonio
Ms. Tramel also serves as a
Member of The Health
Collaborative Board ofDirectors
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