Corpus Christi Memorial Hospital

In May 2014, Christus Spohn administration announced its Our PATH initiative to reorganize the Spohn healthcare system.[5] The initiative included the construction of a new patient care tower and emergency department at sister hospital Christus Spohn Shoreline, the construction of the Hector P. Garcia (HPG) Memorial Family Health Center adjacent to Spohn Memorial, and the closure of Spohn Memorial Hospital. Services from Spohn Memorial would be transferred to two other hospitals in the Spohn system: Spohn Shoreline, which would become the major trauma center for Corpus Christi, and Spohn South, which had already received Memorial's labor and delivery services in 2011.

In May 2017, with construction underway for the Shoreline expansion and the HPG Clinic opened in January, services began shutting down at Memorial. The level II trauma designation was transferred to Spohn Shoreline on May 1, 2017,[2] and Memorial stopped admitting patients to wards. By the end of 2017, the only admitting beds open at Memorial were for psychiatric patients. The 10-bed emergency department remained open, though all admitted patients were transferred to other facilities.

In August 2017, the hospital was damaged by water from Hurricane Harvey, temporarily shutting down the emergency department and behavioral health services that were still open at the time.

The Nueces County Hospital District voted in October 2018 to sell the hospital and surrounding land, excluding the HPG Clinic, under the condition that the purchaser destroys the hospital building; no buyer has been announced.[1]

On October 1, 2019, the emergency department closed all services and completed the transfer of emergency services to Christus Spohn Shoreline. Since then, the only services still open are the behavioral health services run in conjunction with Nueces County. They consist of the psychiatric evaluation service and two inpatient psychiatric units. No announcement has been made as to when the service will close or move. In June of 2020, Christus Spohn announced a new partnership with behavioral healthcare system Oceans Healthcare; Oceans took over operations of the two inpatient psychiatric units and evaluation service still in place at Memorial.[6]