South Texas Medical Clinics, P.A. is the product of over 60 years of personal effort by dedicated physicians to build a premier health care organization for their patients and themselves. STMC, is a multi-specialty clinic with five satellite locations continuing to provide healthcare for patients in Wharton, Matagorda, Fort Bend, Jackson, Colorado and Brazoria Counties.

May 1967, Caney Valley Memorial Hospital and the Outlair Blair Clinic

This picture was taken in 1943. The originators of the Rugeley and Blasingame Clinic are pictured as follows: C.H. Rugeley, Business Manager; George Kopecky, Dentist; F.R. Rugeley, M.D., and F.J.L. Blasingame, M.D.

STMC's roots go back to the Outlar-Blair Clinic and Rugeley and Blasingame Clinic, two highly respected local medical organizations, which competed aggressively for decades and raised the quality of care to new heights for our rural communities. The clinics were among the first medical clinics outside the Houston area to offer specialists. Consequently, Wharton, Texas became the choice for many patients on the Gulf Coast in need of quality specialty care who did not want to travel to Houston. With the advent of managed care, these longtime competitors set aside their differences in 1985 and joined forces to face the challenges of the changing health care system.

Following the clinics' merger, the physicians of STMC, P.A. personally financed and built a modern medical facility at its present location to continue the tradition of medical growth, excellence, and expansion of ancillary services available to the patients. In addition to the lab and radiology services available at that time, the group added a pharmacy and optical shop for the patient's convenience.