UAB Health System Facts and Figures

Advances of UAB - An Academic Health System

UAB is Alabama's principal tertiary healthcare provider, serving local, regional, national, and international patients with state-of-the-science treatment modalities. Each component of the UAB Health System supports our threefold mission of patient care, teaching, and research.

The UAB Health System components include the following:

Members:

• UAB Hospital - licensed for 908 beds and dedicated to top quality patient care
  
  
• The Kirklin Clinic® - covering a full city block with 430,000 square feet, more than 30 distinct clinical units of multidisciplinary teams, and an adjacent covered parking deck that accomodates 1,450 vehicles
  
  
• The Kirklin Clinic® at Acton Road - offers a multidisciplinary approach to cancer care and provides a wide array of patient care services south of town
  
  
• UAB Health Centers - including five neighborhood clinics in Birmingham and a new one in Hoover, Alabama. For the convenience of our patients, UAB also has locations in Huntsville, Montgomery, Selma, and Tuscaloosa
  
  
• Callahan Eye Foundation Hospital - offering the latest ophthalmic microsurgery, corneal transplantation, and an emergency department dedicated to treating trauma to the eye
  
  
• UAB Highlands - a general acute care facility located in the Medical Center District of Birmingham, Alabama, at 1201 11th Avenue South.
  
  
• The University of Alabama Health Services Foundation, P.C. - a 790+ multi-specialty physician practice serving UAB through 16 departments, 59 divisions, and 32 centers of excellence
  
  
• The University of Alabama School of Medicine - with clinical training programs in Birmingham, Huntsville, Tuscaloosa, Selma, and Montgomery
  
  

Affiliates:

• UAB Medical West - a medical center to provide quality health care to west Jefferson County
  
  
• Baptist Health Montgomery - hospitals and healthcare programs serving the Montgomery, Alabama region
  
  

Access is geographically convenient, adapted for the physically challenged, and in a broader sense, extends to our Internet site (uabhealth.org), which includes a wealth of healthcare information.

Quality Recognitions
In addition to a long list of quality recognitions awarded over the years, the UAB Health System recently was named a national benchmark institution for the University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC) in patient satisfaction for adult inpatient and surgical outpatient care.

Seven programs from UAB are ranked in the 2006 U.S. News and World Report's annual "America's Best Hospitals" issue. UAB is the only Alabama hospital included in the listing. 235 UAB physicians were listed in the latest edition of The Best Doctors in America and the American Nurses Association’s Credentialing Center (ANCC) has designated UAB Hospital as a Magnet Nursing Service. The ANCC confers this prestigious award on those organized nursing services that exceed professional standards in nursing practice, leadership education, and research. Currently, there are fewer than 50 Magnet Nursing Services nationally, and UAB is the only one in the state of Alabama.

The UAB Health System is a remarkable place of healing. It enables patients in critical need to access some of the finest health care in the world.