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University Health officials plan on moving specialty care and several clinics to the shuttered CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Hospital in the medical center that could soon become the system’s “Babcock Specialty Hospital.”

The goal is to decompress the volume of patients at University Health’s main hospital, not too far from the vacant CHRISTUS hospital.

University Health entered into a $71 million deal in July with CHRISTUS to purchase its 45-acre Santa Rosa Hospital campus in the South Texas Medical Center.

In April, the Catholic nonprofit hospital operator closed the location, which had seen patients for 38 years, citing an “internal performance evaluation.” The hospital’s closure came with the loss of 174 inpatient beds and 479 jobs . CHRISTUS opened a new tower

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