Local officials from Healthcare Access San Antonio (HASA), the entity putting together the Health Information Exchange (HIE) for this region, was joined today by the major health systems and Councilman Ron Nirenberg to celebrate that physicians at five of the six major hospitals in San Antonio are now able to share patient records. This is a first for our region and represents the first step to...

Respite Care of San Antonio, celebrating its 26th anniversary, provides specialized care to families caring for a child with special needs. Services offered provide families a temporary break from the demands of caring for a child. A developmental daycare also offers fulltime early childhood interventions for children with numerous needs including newborns and toddlers that are medically comple...

The first of three completed SPARK parks was unveiled with the help of 700 students at Sky Harbour Elementary School (Southwest ISD). SPARK is a school park program that turns public elementary and middle school property into neighborhood parks to be enjoyed by the community outside of school hours. The grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony was led by the Leader in Me student council, and i...

The San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo is pleased to announce the first two artists in their 2014 Rodeo lineup which is set to feature over two weeks of live entertainment from a variety of talented performers. The 2014 Stock Show & Rodeo will be held February 6-23rd at the AT&T Center/Freeman Coliseum Grounds. Saturday, February 8th, ground-breaking entertainer Tim McGraw will perform ...

Since training together in the fall of 2007, Donna and Huey have been a perfect match. Donna is visually impaired and Huey is a highly-trained guide dog. Donna and Huey live a great life; they have accomplished so much in their six years working together. Using a guide dog reconnected Donna with her world and it has provided immeasurable renewed freedom, independence and safety. Living in the r...

by Mike Pfieffer, 5th grade teacher It’s that time of the year again and Sunshine Cottage is gearing up for one of its longest standing traditions, a tradition which dates back over half a century. In 1955 the Cottage began selling Christmas cards as its single largest PTG fundraiser. Our group of students took pen and paper in hand, or more likely crayon and paper, and began designing the v...

Soccer for a Cause, a unique effort utilizing professional soccer to generate financial support for the special-needs community, made good on its pledge and this evening unveiled a check for $662,559 during halftime of the San Antonio Scorpions’ North American Soccer League (NASL) match with the New York Cosmos. “The Scorpions and their newly opened stadium home, Toyota Field, are de...

ON THE HORIZON Lisa Mochel Broadway Bank About the company: Broadway National Bank was established in 1941, and is the largest independent bank in the San Antonio and Hill Country region. As Vice President of Treasury Management Sales, Lisa is focused on consulting with businesses and commercial customers to provide financial products and services that help them manage their business more ...

SOCIAL U CHAIR Lisa Lewis CPS Energy About the Company: Lisa Lewis is Vice President of Corporate Communications & Media Relations for CPS Energy, the nation’s largest municipally owned energy utility providing both natural gas and electric service in and around the seventh-largest city in the nation. Lewis joined CPS Energy’s Marketing team in 2001, and manages internal and external c...

Here at the North SA Chamber, we recently changed our outgoing email provider. Now email messages are coming from email provider “Reflexion” and it may affect the email addresses that your email server may have previously allowed from domain name @northsachamer.com. As a result, legitimate messages from the North SA Chamber might be totally rejected as spam or be placed in a spam/junk folder...