b'C o m m u n i t yCommercial Development Planned by Orthopedic GroupNew business opportunities available on Crosstown Expressway near Holly Rd. and new medical campus.Continuing to build on a 50-year tradition of orthopedic excellence, South Texas Bone & Joint has constructed a new office with an adjoining ambulatory surgery center, Texas Orthopedic Center of Excellence in southwest Corpus Christi. The medical complex housing both buildings is on a nearly 40-acre site at Crosstown Expressway near Holly Road, adjacent to Los Encinos Elementary School, directly across from the new AEP Texas Corpus Christi Service Center.These state-of-the-art-facilities are positioned in the rapidly growing epicenter of Corpus Christi and allow for smart growth and strategic alliances with other medical partners aimed at delivering an exceptional level of service throughout the Coastal Bend and beyond. The newly built, premier orthopedic office, which opened in February 2023, is seeing the vision of its plan to create a healing en-vironment coupled with innovative design, accommodate its current, as well as future growth. It is truly a first-class setting and triumph for our community.Before relocating, South Texas Bone & Joint was officially approved for a zoning change by the Corpus Christi Planning Commission, which allowed the undevel-oped site to be utilized for office and commercial use. The new office building houses their medical, front and business office teams, human resources, book-keeping, accounting, public relations, medical records department, physical ther-apy and rehabilitation department, walk-in orthopedic clinic, diagnostic imaging, musculoskeletal ultrasound, digital x-ray, wound care services, and full-service laboratory. Surgical procedures are performed next door immediately outside the main office.The current satellite clinics in Alice, Beeville, Portland, on South Alameda andThe new space on Crosstown will welcome additional physicians and advanced Saratoga offer patients additional convenient locations for care with planned fu- practitioners arriving in 2024, 2025 and 2026. This includes fellowship trained sur-ture expansion to other cities soon. The group also provides distress care throughgeons Dr. Cody Ramirez, Reconstructive Sports Medicine, Dr. Austin Mike-Mayer, its Trauma Department at CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital. Adult Spine Surgery and an additional Joint Reconstruction, Hip and Knee Re-Adjacent to their new office and the ambulatory surgery center will be future de- placement doctor.velopments, including other medical related facilities, businesses, eateries andThe group looks forward to cultivating and developing new and future services for potentially a hotel. best outcomes, close to home, with emphasis on making patient care a priority.70THE COASTAL BEND MAGAZINE TheCoastalBend.com'