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Hospital name City County Hospital beds Trauma designation Year founded Year closed Notes Carraway Methodist Medical Center: Birmingham: Jefferson: 617 None 1908 2008 Chilton Medical Center Clanton: Chilton: 60 None 2012 [10] Cleburne Community Hospital and Nursing Home [11] Heflin: Cleburne: 1990 Cooper Green Mercy Hospital: Birmingham ...
The population inside Birmingham's city limits has fallen over the past few decades, due in large part to "white flight" from the city of Birmingham proper to surrounding suburbs. The city's formerly most populous ethnic group, non-Hispanic white, [ 17 ] has declined from 57.4 percent in 1970 to 21.1 percent in 2010. [ 18 ]
In late 2014, Tenet Healthcare announced it was interested in merging its 600-bed acute care hospital in Birmingham, Brookwood Medical Center, with Baptist Health System. [5] On October 2, 2015, Tenet announced it had finalized the merger.
Children's of Alabama is a pediatric acute care children's hospital located in Birmingham, Alabama. The main hospital has 332 beds and 54 bassinets. [ 1 ] The hospital is affiliated with the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine . [ 2 ]
Dr. Charles N. Carraway founded the hospital in 1908, in a house in Pratt City, now a neighborhood in Birmingham, with the capacity to treat 16 patients. [5] Carraway was an innovator in many ways: "Carraway financed the new facility by getting Birmingham businesses to agree to pay $1 a month per employee, or $1.25 per family, for treatment.
The Health Campus opened on 21 June 2006 at the former Kirwan Hospital for Women. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Kirwan Health Campus cost $20 million to redevelop, and is staffed by 230 health care professionals that can provide treatment and medical services to more than 150 families each day.
The 12-bed Druid City Infirmary was quickly seen to be insufficient to serve the town's medical needs. With land donated by the University of Alabama, a bond issue and public subscriptions were used to fund a new hospital on a nearby site. Dubbed Druid City Hospital, it officially opened on March 25, 1923. [3]
The Birmingham metropolitan area, sometimes known as Greater Birmingham, is a metropolitan area in north central Alabama centered on Birmingham, Alabama, United States.. As of 2023, the federal government defines the Birmingham, AL Metropolitan Statistical Area as consisting of seven counties (Bibb, Blount, Chilton, Jefferson, St. Clair, Shelby, and Walker) centered on Birmingham. [2]