The planned facility, the Mission Surgery Center, is a project spurred by Dr. Ochoa and healthcare administrator Carl Negley. It will be the only Medicare-accredited facility south of the city center, according to MySanAntonio.
This will be Dr. Ochoa’s seventh facility — she founded the San Antonio Vascular and Endovascular Clinic in 2011. While Dr. Ochoa’s other practices are vascular-focused, she said physicians in any specialty will be able to schedule procedures at Mission Surgery Center.
The healthcare disparity is a factor in a 20-year life span discrepancy between the city’s North and South Sides, Mr. Negley said.
He told MySanAntonio that he believes the disparity is further worsened by doctors’ assumption that having a healthcare facility on the South Side is not a viable business model, an attitude he hopes to change with the new facility.
