Two grain silos and a hundred-acre dairy farm have been miraculously transformed over the past six decades to a Health Science Center of international renown. In 1959 Gov. Price Daniel signed House Bill 9, creating the South Texas Medical School. Six years later, the Joe J. Nix Dairy Farm, a wide expanse of grazing land, cattle pens, milking barns and silos to store cattle feed, was conveyed to the State of Texas to build a School of Medicine. On July 12, 1968, The University of Texas Medical School at San Antonio (which was renamed in 1967) and Bexar County Teaching Hospital (now University Health) were dedicated. Other schools were added in succeeding years and, in 1972, the institution's name officially became The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
Today, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio is a chief catalyst of San Antonio's $44.1 billion health care and biosciences economic sector. Each year, the university graduates approximately 200 physicians, 400 nurses, 100 dentists, 580 professionals in other health fields and 140 scientists. Additionally, the health science center provides a vast amount of continuing medical and dental education, affords 2.5 million patient visits each year, and provides approximately $666.2 million (FY 24) annually in uncompensated health care services.