South Texas Health System

South Texas Health System is a for-profit proprietary hospital located in Edinburg, TX, holding CMS certification number 450119. The Brownsville covers Edinburg-area healthcare news, including major facility changes, regulatory ratings, and service-line developments at South Texas Health System.

As an acute-care hospital, South Texas Health System treats short-term, severe medical conditions including emergencies, surgeries, trauma, and critical illness. The facility operates a 24-hour emergency department.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) assigns South Texas Health System an overall quality rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on its most recent public reporting cycle. The CMS overall rating is a composite of mortality, safety, readmission, patient experience, effectiveness of care, timeliness of care, and efficient imaging measures. The Brownsville tracks rating changes year-over-year for every hospital in our coverage area; a one-star change typically reflects meaningful shifts in clinical performance.

For Edinburg residents, South Texas Health System is one of the hospital options to weigh when choosing emergency care, surgical care, or specialty services. The Brownsville regularly reports on hospital expansions, closures, leadership changes, and major regulatory actions affecting Edinburg-area healthcare facilities — including South Texas Health System.

Story tip about South Texas Health System? Email editor@nexcom.media. For more healthcare coverage, visit thebrownsville.org/news. This profile uses public data from the CMS Provider Data Catalog (Hospital General Information dataset) and is updated as CMS releases new reporting cycles.