The nursing staff will help familiarize you with your room when you arrive. If you need assistance during your stay, please use the call button on your bed. There is also an emergency call button located in your bathroom.

Our Engineering Department maintains the temperature within the Hospital. Due to certain medications and conditions, some patients may feel colder than others. Please ask your nurse for a warm blanket if you are cold.

We may include certain limited information about you in the hospital directory while you are a patient at the hospital. This information may include your name, location in the hospital, your general condition (e.g., good, fair, etc.) and your religious affiliation. Unless there is a specific written request from you to the contrary, this information, except for your religious affiliation, may also be released to people who ask for you by name. Your religious affiliation may be given to a member of the clergy, such as a priest or rabbi, even if they don’t ask for you by name. This information is released so your family, friends and clergy can visit you in the hospital and generally know how you are doing. 

We ask that you keep your use of cell phones and other wireless communication devices to a minimum as they may interfere with some types of patient monitoring equipment. This is of particular importance when visiting patients on units where monitoring equipment is used extensively.

Unless your physician has ordered a restricted diet, you may select meals from menus given to you each day. Prompt completion of the menus will ensure that you receive the items of your choice. Between-meal snacks are also available mid-afternoon and before bedtime. Meals are served:

Breakfast: 7:15 to 8:30 am

Lunch: 11:45 am to 1 pm

Dinner: 5:15 to 6:30 pm

You may discuss any concerns you have about your diet with our Dietary staff. A registered dietitian may visit you if ordered by your physician.

The hospital pharmacy provides medications ordered by your physician. All medications you take while you are a patient are limited to those given by our staff nurses. Please do not bring any medications, including over-the-counter remedies, from home. If your physician prescribes medications for you to take when you go home, you should arrange for a family member or friend to take the prescription to your local pharmacy to be filled.

Your physician may order blood tests as part of the diagnostic profile, and to monitor your progress. Lab assistants who draw your blood may not know the reason for the test. Questions regarding the purpose of blood tests and their results are best answered by your physician. Click here for additional information about laboratory services.

Your physician may order x-rays or other diagnostic procedures. The San Antonio Regional Hospital Radiology Department provides all current imaging services. Click here for additional information about radiology services.

Your physician will determine when you are well enough to leave the hospital. Our nursing staff will initiate the necessary discharge procedures according to the discharge plan established by your physician, case manager, and you and your family. Before you leave, your nurse will review your physician's discharge orders with you and answer any questions about your care at home.