Company Profile
The Austin Diagnostic Clinic
Company Overview
We are a group of over 115 doctors and providers in 15 medical specialties working together to coordinate your care and keep you healthy. Whether you need a family doctor, or a specialist to treat a complex medical issue, we are here to help.
If you need lab, imaging services, chemotherapy, mammography, outpatient surgery or eyeglasses from our optical shop, our staff and doctors can arrange these visits in a matter of minutes.
Company History
The Austin Diagnostic Clinic (ADC) is the realization of the dream of Dr. Henry Renfert. He wanted to build a ”junior-size” Mayo Clinic — the first of its kind in the Austin area.
After completing his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan, he moved to Austin in 1952 and opened his practice. Over time, Dr. Renfert added partners to the practice.
In 1995 The Austin Diagnostic Clinic, in a partnership with HCA, opened the Austin Diagnostic Medical Center in north Austin on the MoPac frontage road just south of Parmer Lane.
After five years, The Austin Diagnostic Clinic and HCA (which had joined with St. David’s Healthcare System) decided to end the partnership. The hospital became St. David’s North Austin Medical Center (NAMC) and ADC remained an independent, physician-owned multi-specialty clinic. ADC resides as a tenant inside NAMC and has its largest number of specialites and providers housed within the hospital – this location is referred to as the “Main Clinic”.
Notable Accomplishments / Recognition
ADC was the first clinic in Austin to have available in-house diagnostic radiology and a clinical laboratory.
We were the first to offer nuclear scanning, outpatient stress testing, echocardiography, and 24-hour cardiac monitoring.
Our doctors staffed the first intensive care unit and performed the first heart catheterization in Central Texas.
Austin’s first specialty-trained invasive Cardiologist, Nephrologist, Endocrinologist, Rheumatologist and Pulmonary Disease specialists were also ADC doctors.