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Save the Date! San Antonio Technology Center Event is November 5th!

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Connect. Collaborate. Innovate.

Join the San Antonio Technology Center (SATC) on November 5th for an evening bringing together San Antonio’s medical, biotech, and life-sciences community.

The event will bring together physicians, researchers, diagnostic and medical-device companies, biotech entrepreneurs, laboratory professionals, and other leaders in the healthcare community for an opportunity to meet, exchange ideas, and explore new opportunities for collaboration.

Enjoy food, drinks, and good conversation while connecting with others who are helping shape the future of healthcare and life sciences in San Antonio.

Come meet your neighbors in the medical and biotech community—and discover what we can accomplish together.

Further details and registration link coming in October!  Save the Date!

The Best Marketing Tool You Have Is Your Membership in Healthcare Leaders of San Antonio

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In the competitive landscape of Bexar County’s burgeoning healthcare sector, finding a single platform that simultaneously drives business growth, uncovers top-tier talent, and establishes industry authority is rare. Whether you operate a medical practice, provide B2B healthcare services, or manage health technology operations in San Antonio, your primary marketing challenge remains constant: reaching decision-makers efficiently without wasting budget on broad, unfocused general business channels.

Healthcare Leaders of San Antonio (HLSA) serves as the premier nexus for healthcare professionals, executives, and service providers across San Antonio and the surrounding Bexar County region. By leveraging the targeted promotional avenues available through HLSA, your organization gains direct, highly credible access to thousands of prospective clients, top-performing professionals for recruitment, and strategic partners who can elevate your business.

Why HLSA Is Your Primary Venue for Healthcare Reach

Generic business associations and digital advertising campaigns often fail to deliver a meaningful return on investment for healthcare organizations. They lack the hyper-local focus and specialized demographic concentration required to move the needle. HLSA eliminates that inefficiency. Every event, newsletter, and digital output from HLSA is engineered specifically for the local medical and health services economy. When you engage with HLSA, you position your brand directly in front of an active, highly engaged community of decision-makers.

Top Promotional Resources to Accelerate Your Growth

HLSA provides a broad spectrum of high-visibility promotional opportunities designed to suit every marketing objective and budget level:

  • Special Event Sponsorship: The Flagship Spotlight

 

For organizations seeking maximum market impact, sponsoring a special HLSA event stands out as the single most powerful tool in the regional healthcare market. Sponsoring a special event places your organization at the center of attention. You maintain full freedom to present custom content, showcasing your expertise, clinical advancements, or unique service offerings directly to key stakeholders. Benefits include:

    • Maximum brand positioning and audience focus
    • Direct access to a list of 3,000+ member invitees
    • Option for professional video recording and placement on the HLSA YouTube channel
    • Postings on HLSA’s social media sites
    • A featured article in HLSA’s monthly newsletter
    • Ad placement in three consecutive monthly newsletters

 

  • Monthly Mixer Buffet Sponsorship

Sponsoring our monthly mixer buffet offers an exceptional balance of prominence and direct audience interaction. Benefits include:

    • A dedicated speaking segment before attending members
    • Prominent venue signage at the food display, along with designated space for your pull-up banners, brochures, and promotional flyers
    • A featured article in HLSA’s monthly newsletter
    • Ad placement in our newsletter for one month

 

  • Webinar & Digital Educational Marketing

Educational marketing is a proven strategy for reaching healthcare decision-makers. HLSA can market your webinar to our network of 3,000+ members. To help convert prospective attendees into active clients, this package also includes:

    • A featured follow-up article highlighting your webinar content in HLSA’s monthly newsletter
    • Ad placement in our newsleter for one month
  • Raffle Gifts: Interactive Monthly Mixer Highlights

Providing a raffle gift delivers instant, room-wide brand recognition. Corporate swag, promotional items, and premium gifts (such as wine or curated gift baskets) are excellent choices. Attaching your business card and literature to your contribution ensures your brand makes a lasting impression with attending members.

 

The Core Advantage: Active Membership

HLSA creates a welcoming, highly productive environment specifically tailored for professional networking. By attending monthly gatherings, reading the newsletter, and sharing HLSA publications across your professional network, you stay continuously tuned to the pulse of Bexar County’s healthcare ecosystem. Over time, this consistent visibility builds deep community trust—making your company the first call when new projects, referral needs, or employment opportunities arise.

 

Timing Is Everything

Whether you are launching a new facility, recruiting top talent, or seeking to double your clinical referral base, HLSA provides the exact audience and platform you need to achieve your goals.

Let’s discuss custom event packages tailored to your organization. Contact us today to maximize your membership and reserve your sponsorship slot for our next monthly mixer.

 

By August Trevino, Sponsored Content: Views expressed are those of the advertiser. Features, pricing, and availability are subject to change without notice.

Some thoughts on our newsletter and our networking philosophy…

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July marks one year of publishing our very first monthly HLSA newsletter. It has been challenging, a great learning experience, quite a bit of fun and very rewarding. It would also not have been possible without the inspiration and guidance we received from our mentor, Michael Loschke of Arista Advisors, to whom we are incredibly grateful. We (our board) had been talking for some time about doing a newsletter to expand our community outreach, and Michael was the catalyst that made that happen. We wanted to provide added value to our sponsors while also sharing some great information from some of the very smart and experienced individuals we have met through our networking events.

We have been hosting our monthly mixers and special events for well over a decade now with one mission in mind, to thoughtfully connect healthcare professionals as a means to grow connections and opportunities. Most people think of that when they think of networking- you’re looking for new business, new clients, maybe a new job- and those are reasonable and practical goals. But over the years we have also forged some very meaningful connections and friendships, and learned a lot about business in San Antonio.

If asked to point to one source of inspiration for starting a networking group, I would have to point to Johnny Johnson. His real name was Phil Johnson, but I always remember him being introduced as “Johnny” at our regional ACHE conferences in the mid-90s when he was the CEO of what was then McKenna Hospital in New Braunfels. Johnny was of course a fellow in ACHE and had also enjoyed a distinguished health administration career in the US Army, rising to the rank of Colonel before returning to civilian life. He was also a huge proponent of networking and always brought very sizeable stacks of business cards in rubber bands (this was in the earliest days of the internet) to the conference podium to drive home his points when he spoke about its importance to our careers. He would say it is something you have to do continually, a career discipline that can  be rewarding in ways beyond the next job lead.

He was right.

 

David Neathery

HLSA Founder