Aransas Pass, Texas

North Bay Hospital is a 75-bed acute care medical facility on a 6-acre site in Aransas Pass, Texas.  The hospital’s service area includes the surrounding communities of Rockport, Fulton, Port Aransas, Ingleside and Ingleside-on-the-Bay, Gregory and Portland.  The combined population in the 12-mile radius of the hospital is estimated at 70,000.  It is the only hospital in the two counties of San Patricio and Aransas, immediately across the bay north of Corpus Christi, Texas.  

The facility, originally named Coastal Bend Hospital was built in 1982 by the Coastal Bend Hospital Foundation to replace 2 other hospitals in town; the Aransas Pass Hospital and the Lyman-Roberts Hospital, which had a combined total of 12 beds. 

Since then, the hospital has been owned and operated by several companies: 

• In 1982 the foundation sold the hospital to LifeMark Hospital Corporation.
• Only a few weeks after this transaction, LifeMark was bought by American Medical International (AMI).
• In 1986 Coastal Bend Hospital was part of a spin-off from AMI and thus became an ESOP (Employee-owned Stock Ownership Plan) company, under the name of Epic Healthcare Group.
• In 1993 Epic Healthcare Group was acquired by HealthTrust Corporation.
• A merger between HealthTrust and Columbia/HCA became final in May 1995.
• HCA was removed from Columbia/HCA and our parent company’s name became known as Columbia.
• In 1998 Columbia was dropped from the name and the parent company became known as HCA – The Healthcare Company; or simply HCA.
• On January 1, 2002 North Bay Hospital was sold to American MedTrust.
• The name change from Coastal Bend Hospital to North Bay Hospital became official in May 1996.

North Bay Hospital has Medicare and Medicaid certification and operates 2 rural health clinics in the area, designed for primary care.  These clinics are located Rockport and Ingleside, respectively.

The hospital’s Emergency Room averages 1,300 visits a month, and some other services include: