UAB Health System

UAB is among the largest academic medical centers in the nation (1,132 beds) and UAB Health System is providing the highest quality of health care to its state and region, treating well over one million patients annually. With its rich history of medical breakthroughs, UAB excels at not only delivering, but developing leading-edge care—effectively translating discoveries made in its laboratories into the newest generation treatments and therapies. 

This caliber of care and services continues to attract patients in increasing numbers—with more than 42,000 discharges last year from UAB Hospital, the largest hospital in Alabama and 3rd largest public hospital in the nation--as physicians, researchers and staff work in a unique culture of collaboration and innovation that continues to earn international renown.

The Preferred Academic Medical Center of the 21st Century

The Health System--comprising UAB Hospital, the I.M. Pei-designed Kirklin Clinic, Kirklin Clinic at Acton Road, UAB Highlands, Callahan Eye Foundation Hospital, Spain Rehabilitation Center, affiliates UAB Medical West and Baptist Health (Montgomery), and recently opened Hazelrig-Salter Radiation Center and UAB Women & Infants Center--continues to and earn high marks at the local and national level.

• UAB Hospital is the only hospital in the state listed in every issue (23 straight years) of U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Hospitals,” which recognizes only about 3 percent of hospitals nationwide. 
• UAB Hospital was recently recertified as a Magnet Hospital for Nursing Excellence for the third time, a rare accomplishment nationally and putting us among fewer than 400 hospitals globally—a testament to both the quality care offered by the Health System and the exceptional training of nurse-leaders in UAB School of Nursing.
• UAB Hospital and UAB Callahan Eye Hospital are among WomenCertified’s Top 100 Hospitals in female patient satisfaction for extraordinary service in meeting the needs of women and their families.
• Ranked #1 locally in patient satisfaction (per HHS surveys).
  
  
  Nationally-Renowned Physician-Researchers
  
  UAB physican-researchers are at the top of their fields, serving as president-elect of the American Heart Association, president of the Society for Gynecologic Oncology, and president and president-elect of the American Society of Transplantation (making the first time in two decades that the both officers come from the same institution), among other national leadership posts.
  
  The 2011-12 issue of Best Doctors in America lists 291 UAB physicians in 55 specialties, putting them among the top 5 percent of clinicians in the U.S. as voted by their peers.
  
  80% of Alabama-trained physicians are graduates of UAB School of Medicine.
  
  Unique Services for the State and Region
  
  
• Only NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center in Alabama and a six-state region
• State’s only Level 1 (highest level) trauma center
• State’s only Level 3 (highest level) regional neonatal ICU
• State's only burn unit
• State’s only solid organ transplant program, and one of the busiest kidney transplant programs in the nation
• Only Level 1 ocular trauma center in the Southeast (1 of 2 nationally)

A Patient-Centered Environment

As telling as rankings and credentials might be, the quality of UAB’s care is more evident in the intangibles, chiefly the compassionate, patient-centered approach practiced daily by physicians, nurses and staff. Patients come first at UAB Hospital; help with clinic appointments, hotel-style room service, meditative spaces, and other amenities make for more exceptional service and care.This distinctive focus on patient and family is reflected particularly in two of UAB's newest facilities:


 

UAB Women and Infants Center features private labor, delivery and recovery rooms for a family-centered birthing experience, and the nation’s largest all-private-room special care nursery consisting of the Regional Newborn Intensive Care Unit and Continuing Care Nursery. There are also special rooms for Caesarean deliveries, expectant mothers experiencing severe pregnancy-related complications, and women undergoing advanced gynecological procedures or treatment for gynecologic cancers.

The Hazelrig-Salter Radiation Oncology Facility offers state-of-the-art radiation equipment and cancer treatments, as well as patient rooms and an adjoining “Park of Hope” that provide a warm, soothing environment for patients and their families.

For more on UAB Health System, please visit www.uabmedicine.org.