Care system Veterans' Affairs Phone +1 210-617-5300 Founded 1973 | Number of beds 462 | |
Hospital type Quaternary services and Level II Research facility Emergency department Comprehensive Emergency Center Website Audie L. Murphy Memorial VA Hospital Address 7400 Merton Minter, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA Affiliated university University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Similar Audie L Murphy VA Medical, Texas Veterans Commissi, Methodist Ambulatory Surgery, St Luke's Baptist Hospital, CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Phy | ||
Audie L. Murphy Memorial VA Hospital (STVHCS) is a care facility affiliated with the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in Bexar County, in the U.S. state of Texas. It is operated by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.
The hospital is named for Medal of Honor recipient and Texas native son Audie Murphy, who died in a plane crash on May 28, 1971. That same year, U.S. Congressman Olin Teague introduced legislation to name a planned Veterans Administration medical facility in San Antonio for Murphy. The facility was dedicated November 17, 1973.
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