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St. Vincent's Hospital, circa 1903. St. Vincent's Hospital (now St. Vincent's Birmingham) was founded in 1898 and is Birmingham's oldest hospital. It was founded by the Daughters of Charity and named after the 17th century Parisian St. Vincent de Paul, who started the Daughters of Charity in 1633.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is a public research university in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.Founded in 1969 and part of the University of Alabama System, UAB has grown to be the state's largest employer, with more than 24,200 faculty and staff and over 53,000 jobs at the university.
UAB Hospital (also known as University Hospital) is a 1,207 bed tertiary hospital and academic health science center located in Birmingham, Alabama.It serves as the only ACS verified Level I Trauma Center in Alabama, [2] and is the flagship property of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and the UAB Health System, a part of the University of Alabama System.
Selwyn Maurice Vickers is an American gastrointestinal surgical oncologist. He serves as President and CEO of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.Previously, Dr. Vickers was the senior vice president for Medicine and Dean of the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine and the CEO of both the UAB Health System and the UAB/Ascension St. Vincent's Alliance.
The Kirklin Clinic is the primary adult outpatient clinic of the medical staff of UAB Hospital, and of the faculty of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Heersink School of Medicine. Kirklin Clinic also is the site for many clinical rotations in the medical school's doctoral and residency programs.
In 2021, the UAB School of Medicine received a $95 million single lead gift from a longtime supporter of UAB, Dr. Marnix E. Heersink, resulting to naming the medical school in honor of his name to UAB Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine, with an additional $5 million from Triton Health Systems, that total in $100 million, the largest single ...
The Kirklin Clinic of UAB Hospital, an outpatient clinic of UAB Hospital; Callahan Eye Foundation, founded independently as the Eye Foundation Hospital in 1963 and merged into UABHS in 1973, [3] UAB Medicine Women and Infants Center; UAB Hospital-Highlands. Formerly HealthSouth's flagship medical center in the Southside, UABHS acquired it in ...
St. Vincent's sites of care and operations officially became UAB St. Vincent's. Watts said, "Both of us [UABHS and St. Vincent's] are very mission focused organizations. We take care of everyone who needs our care, regardless of their station in life. Welcoming everyone, taking care of the most vulnerable, that really resonates with us.