CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF SAN ANTONIO

What CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF SAN ANTONIO does

Children's Hospital of San Antonio operates as CHRISTUS Children's, a wholly-owned pediatric subsidiary of CHRISTUS Health — a private, faith-based, non-profit integrated delivery system headquartered in Irving, Texas. The hospital provides inpatient and outpatient medical and surgical care for infants and children, with special depth in pediatric epilepsy as a Level 4 Epilepsy Center accredited by the National Association of Epilepsy Centers — the highest designation available for South Texas families. It is staffed and operated within the broader 45,000+ team-member CHRISTUS Health system, which includes 15,000 clinicians serving communities across Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico, and other geographies.

The CHRISTUS Health platform delivers a full continuum of services spanning primary care, urgent care, emergency care, pediatric care, women's health, heart and vascular, oncology, orthopedics and sports medicine, mental health, and clinical trials. Technology infrastructure consists of the MyCHRISTUS patient portal (medical records, scheduling, messaging), Virtual Care On Demand (video/telephone visits with board-certified clinicians), ICU telehealth monitoring, electronic medical records, and the XONAR weapons detection system for facility safety. The system also operates a payer arm — CHRISTUS Health Plan — offering Individual & Family Plans, Medicare Advantage, and the US Family Health Plan (TRICARE), aligning insurance and provider economics within a single non-profit entity.

Go-to-market is sales-led and patient-direct: patients access care through physical facilities, online "Find a Doctor / Find a Location" tools, the MyCHRISTUS portal, virtual care, community outreach, and CHRISTUS Health Plan distribution. Pricing is service- and coverage-dependent and is not publicly standardized, with financial assistance available. Revenue is generated from patient care services and insurance premiums across diversified segments — pediatric, adult, women's health, and emergency — with no single customer concentration disclosed. The organization is mission-driven, structured around the healing ministry of Jesus Christ, with whole-person care (body, mind, spirit) as its stated value proposition, and operates without disclosed equity ownership or public-trading status.

Name

CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF SAN ANTONIO

Legal name

CHRISTUS Health

Website

https://chofsa.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Children's Hospital of San Antonio (CHRISTUS Children's) is a non-profit pediatric hospital providing inpatient, outpatient, and specialty care — including a Level 4 Epilepsy Center — for infants and children in South Texas within the larger CHRISTUS Health system.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Pediatric Hospital Services

NAICS

Specialty (except Psychiatric and Substance Abuse) Hospitals (622310), General Medical and Surgical Hospitals (62211)

SIC

Services-Hospitals (8060), Services-General Medical & Surgical Hospitals, Nec (8062), Services-Offices & Clinics Of Doctors Of Medicine (8011)

akta.pro primary industry

Children’s Hospitals (Acute Care) (HLAFAAAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Children’s Hospitals & Pediatric Health Systems (HLAFAJAG), Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine Practices (HLAFAJAF), Pediatric Urgent Care Centers (HLAFADAF), Pediatric Specialty Telehealth (e.g., pediatric allergy, GI, endocrinology) (HLALAHAG)

Keywords

• Pediatric hospital services
• Children's healthcare
• Pediatric specialty care
• Inpatient pediatric care
• Emergency pediatric services

Headquarters

HQ city

San Antonio

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Patient Care Services: Direct healthcare services revenue from emergency care, primary care, specialty care, and hospital services provided to patients
2. CHRISTUS Health Plan: Revenue from health insurance offerings including Individual & Family Plans, Medicare Advantage Plans, and US Family Health Plan

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Children's Hospital of San Antonio is a faith-based nonprofit pediatric hospital providing inpatient and outpatient medical and surgical care for infants and children. It delivers emergency, primary, urgent, and multi-specialty pediatric services (including neurology, cardiology, oncology, orthopedics, and surgical care), and extends access through a system-wide virtual care platform and clinical trial offerings as part of the CHRISTUS Health network.

Product overview

CHRISTUS Health System operates as an integrated healthcare delivery network offering a comprehensive portfolio of medical services. The system provides acute care services including Emergency Care, Primary Care, Urgent Care, and Pediatric Care, alongside specialized services in Cancer Care, Heart & Vascular, Orthopedics (including Sports Medicine), and Women's Health. The organization also offers a health insurance product line through CHRISTUS Health Plan (Individual & Family Plans, Medicare Advantage, and US Family Health Plan). Digital patient engagement is facilitated through the MyCHRISTUS patient portal and Virtual Care On Demand services. CHRISTUS Children's serves as the pediatric sub-brand, providing specialized care including Level 4 Epilepsy Center services. The system also supports academic programs, nursing education, and clinical research through its academic medical center capabilities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• MyCHRISTUS: Patient portal and mobile application for managing healthcare appointments, medical records, and virtual care access
• CHRISTUS Health Plan

Products and services

• Emergency Pediatric Care

Quantifiable outcome

• Level 4 Epilepsy Center designation - highest level of accreditation available
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• CHRISTUS Ochsner Lake Area HospitalcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint venture partnership between CHRISTUS Health and Ochsner Health for operating CHRISTUS Ochsner Lake Area Hospital in Southwest Louisiana, featuring innovative maternal health services and new model maternal health rooms

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Children's Healthcare of Atlanta: Major nonprofit pediatric health system operating multiple children's hospitals. Comparable in mission and operating model as a freestanding nonprofit pediatric provider with broad specialty depth.
• Nemours Children's Health: Multistate nonprofit pediatric health system with children's hospitals and specialty care. Comparable in scale, geographic spread, and mission-driven operating model.
• Dell Children's Medical Center: Austin-based pediatric hospital within Ascension. Comparable children's acute-care provider in the same Texas regional market, with overlapping specialty services.
• Boston Children's Hospital: Nationally top-ranked pediatric academic medical center. Comparable on high-acuity pediatric subspecialty capability, research intensity, and tertiary referral positioning.
• Children's Hospital Los Angeles: Major freestanding nonprofit pediatric academic center on the West Coast. Comparable as a large children's hospital with broad pediatric subspecialty and research programs.
• Texas Children's Hospital: Houston-based, nationally ranked freestanding pediatric hospital and health system. Direct competitor for tertiary pediatric referrals across Texas, with significantly larger scale and research footprint.
• Cook Children's Medical Center: Fort Worth-based pediatric health system providing inpatient, outpatient, and specialty pediatric services. Competes head-to-head with CHRISTUS Children's for North/Central Texas pediatric specialty cases.

Broad incumbents

• HCA Healthcare: Largest investor-owned U.S. hospital operator with significant pediatric service offerings. Comparable in providing acute and specialty hospital care, though with different capital structure and profit orientation.
• Ascension Health: Large Catholic nonprofit health system with multiple children's hospitals including Dell Children's. Comparable as a faith-based nonprofit system operating pediatric acute care.
• CommonSpirit Health: One of the largest U.S. nonprofit health systems with extensive pediatric service lines through its hospitals. Comparable as a faith-based, multistate nonprofit system with overlapping geographic and mission alignment.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/CHRISTUSChildrens

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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