A new hospital is in the works for Northeast San Antonio. Construction kicked off for the University Health Retama Hospital in Selma, which is expected to be ready for patients in 2027. Three years ago, University Health spent $11.6 million on more than 40 acres in Selma. The construction cost is estimated to be $450 million.

The five-story hospital will be located on the corner of Retama Parkway and Lookout Road in Selma. It will feature nearly 600,000 combined square feet for a main hospital campus and an ancillary medical office building. The hospital will have 166 beds starting out, with the potential for 286 beds after the facility is fully expanded.

The Retama hospital, one of three planned in the San Antonio area, is expected to see 30,000 emergency department visits and around 4,000 surgeries within the first two years.