Boeing Opens First-Ever Combined Clinic at Port San Antonio, Eyes Bigger Worker Health Push

Boeing has opened a combined primary care and dental clinic for employees and their families at Port San Antonio, marking the first facility of its kind the aerospace giant has ever built for workers at any of its sites. The clinic, called Crossover at the Port, recently held a soft opening, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony scheduled for September 10. It sits inside a 1920s bungalow originally built as housing for military officers and their families, a detail that underscores just how much the sprawling South Side campus has changed since its days as an Air Force base.

According to the San Antonio Express-News, which first reported the opening, the clinic is operated jointly by Crossover Health and Onsite Dental at 112 Robins Drive in the Bungalow Colony. It's Boeing's first clinic built in a public setting and open to other employers, and the company says it's designed to address primary care needs unrelated to the workplace — everything from routine checkups to dental cleanings. Boeing said the clinic will offer affordable, convenient and high-quality care to both Boeing and Port San Antonio employees, and that its operating model is meant to improve health outcomes, lower costs and strengthen the workforce and local community.

A Historic Building Gets a New Purpose

The clinic also carries some symbolic weight for the former Kelly Air Force Base, which the federal Base Realignment and Closure Commission selected for shutdown in 1995 before it officially closed in July 2001 and its 1,900 acres were handed to a local redevelopment authority that became Port San Antonio, according to the Texas State Historical Association. Per the Express-News report, Crossover at the Port is the first primary care facility at the former base since military clinics there closed in 2012.

Crossover at the Port will serve Boeing employees, Port San Antonio employees, workers from other participating companies, and family members of eligible workers. The facility offers primary care, dental care, preventative care, mental health support, health coaching, physical therapy and chiropractic care, per the same account. Crossover Health, founded in 2010, already provides tech-enabled, employer-sponsored primary care for major clients including Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Boeing, and operates roughly 50 physical health centers nationwide, according to Startup Intros. Onsite Dental, which partners with Crossover Health, runs fixed and mobile dental clinics at corporate and institutional sites across the country.

Port San Antonio Leaders Weigh In

Jim Perschbach, president and CEO of Port San Antonio, called the clinic a very nice step forward, the Express-News reported. Port San Antonio invested $250,000 to prepare the roughly 15,000-square-foot clinic site. Perschbach has also been a visible face of the campus's broader push to grow high-tech and high-paying employment across the region, a role Hoodline has previously covered locally.

Boeing employs about 5,000 people at Port San Antonio, where it performs aircraft maintenance and modification work that includes transforming two 747-8 aircraft into new Air Force One platforms and modernizing B-52 bomber engines and radars. The company established its maintenance presence at the campus in 1998 and now occupies more than 1.6 million square feet of enclosed facilities, anchored by Building 375 — recognized as the world's largest freestanding, high-bay aircraft hangar, able to house 15 wide-body planes at once, according to Port San Antonio.

Expanding the On-Site Occupational Clinic

Separately, Boeing plans to expand its existing on-site occupational health clinic at 375 Airlift Drive, adding 5,000 square feet to the current 1,500-square-foot facility. That clinic handles noncritical workplace injuries, vision and hearing screenings, drug testing and other occupational health concerns tied directly to the job, distinct from the new Crossover clinic's broader family-care mission. The expansion is expected to begin in October 2026 and run through October 2027, with Boeing spending $2.27 million on the project and citing the campus's growing employee count as the driving factor. Boeing said it also plans to add more vision and hearing screening services and additional exam rooms.

The occupational clinic's growth comes as federal regulators have scrutinized safety conditions tied to Boeing's heavy maintenance work. OSHA inspectors have visited Boeing's Port San Antonio operation several times since 2023, with inspections including concerns about hexavalent chromium exposure, respiratory protection and fall hazards. Hexavalent chromium is a toxic, carcinogenic byproduct of chromate-based paint removal, and OSHA's standard sets a permissible exposure limit of 5 micrograms per cubic meter of air over an eight-hour average, according to guidance from VESTMed.

OSHA fined Boeing $16,550 over scaffolding and fall-safety issues, a penalty that was later reduced to $10,000 in a settlement finalized in June 2026, per the Express-News report. A Boeing subcontractor, Brand Energy Solutions, was separately fined $34,755 by OSHA over an October 2025 incident, with that penalty reduced to $11,585.

Part of a Bigger Campus Health Push

The new clinics arrive as Port San Antonio continues to expand rapidly. The campus now generates nearly $9 billion in annual economic impact for the San Antonio region, hosting more than 80 commercial and military tenant organizations that employ roughly 18,000 to 19,000 workers, according to the San Antonio Report. Port officials have also approved $7.5 million to design a 300,000-square-foot, $300 million office building called Innovation Tower, which is planned to include 27,000 square feet of dedicated health and wellness amenities as the campus prepares for employment to potentially double over the next seven to 10 years.

Boeing also offers workers access to direct primary care options through its separate Primary Care+ benefits program, which partners with plan administrators to provide low-cost primary, preventive and mental health services without replacing core medical coverage. Together with the new Crossover at the Port clinic and the planned occupational clinic expansion, the moves reflect how Boeing and Port San Antonio are building out healthcare infrastructure to match a workforce that keeps growing alongside the campus's aerospace, cyber defense and advanced manufacturing operations.