Hospital
Currently licensed beds: 908
Average beds in service: 813
Discharges: 38,780
Average % of occupancy: 71.9%
Average length of patient stay (days): 6.04
Kirklin Clinic
Outpatient visits: 368,364
Procedures performed: 289,097
MIST Calls: 138,139
HealthFinder Calls: 70,546
(includes HealthFinder, Cancer Answers, & UAB MedWise Wellness Works)
RESEARCH
Active Grants/Contracts, 9/98 (does not include federal/state student aid): $258M
All-UAB ranking in NIH Funds, 1997 (total direct costs): 19*
School of Medicine ranking in NIH Funds, 1997
(total direct costs): 13*
UAB ranking in federal funds for R&D, FY 1996: 30
*Revised to reflect total direct costs ranking. Former data reflected total dollars awarded ranki