We are delighted to announce that officially starting February 1st, patients can receive infusions of biologics at the Infusion Services suite on the 4th floor of the MARC.

In honor of February as National Heart Month, your team is encouraged to wear red shirts with their uniform scrub bottoms EVERY Friday in February. In addition, they are permitted to wear Valentine’s Day-themed shirts with scrub their uniform bottoms Monday 2/14/20.

Researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio), reporting this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, identified a mechanism through which two antiviral genes, when mutated, promote a childhood cancer called pediatric myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). Scientists at Oklahoma State University and Cornell University collaborated on the study.

Construction has begun on the UT Health San Antonio outpatient and surgery center at Kyle Seale Parkway, which will be a five-story, 108,000-square-foot community medical facility at the southeast corner of Loop 1604 and Kyle Seale Parkway in San Antonio.

Heidi Ko, MD, joins our breast oncology team as an assistant professor focusing on breast medical oncology. Dr. Ko received her medical degree from Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine in Stratford, New Jersey. She completed her residency in internal medicine at McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. She received her fellowship training in hematology and oncology at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein Cancer Center in Bronx, New York. Dr. Ko is board-certified in internal medicine.

UT Health Physicians has opened its newest primary and specialty care clinic which provides care for the whole family with expertise in family medicine, internal medicine, sports medicine, cardiology, dermatology, gastroenterology, nephrology and imaging. RSVP to our Virtual Grand Opening event, taking place at noon on Feb. 18, and receive a virtual door-prize!

EVUSHELD™ is an investigational medicine used in adults and adolescents as a pre-exposure measure designed to prevent COVID-19 disease. When enough supply is received, UT Health San Antonio will make available EVUSHELD™ for those not currently infected with COVID who meet other certain criteria.

The All of Us Research Program, a part of the National Institutes of Health, stores health data from a diverse group of volunteers from across the country and is one of the largest sources of biomedical data. Approved researchers can access the All of Us Research Program Hub’s data and resources to fuel new insights into human health.

Jeffery L. Flowers, MBA, was appointed the inaugural chief executive officer for the UT Health San Antonio Multispecialty and Research Hospital. He will begin in early May.

UT Health San Antonio has partnered with Equifax to provide digital versions of your 1095-C tax form, which provides tax information about health care benefits you receive as an employee. To receive 1095-C forms digitally, employees must consent on the Equifax mytaxform.com website or paper forms will be mailed by Jan. 31.

To continue improving service and efficiency through the initial work of Enterprise Design for Growth and Effectiveness, we are transitioning the name of the effort and the team working on it as we continually drive process improvements.

Digital W-2 forms are now available for viewing and printing. Click on Paycheck in Quick Links on the My UT Health intranet to login to access it. If you didn’t consent to receive your W-2 electronically, a paper form has been sent to your current mailing address. Reprints will be available after Feb. 13, 2022.

The outage of our Kronos time and leave system which was caused by a ransomware attack in December has been resolved, and the system will be available again starting Feb. 1. We have validated that the system is stable, our data is intact and will be safeguarded going forward. Learn more here.