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UAB Medical Center

The UAB Medical Center is an area of constant growth and development, ever improving to meet the needs of the people it serves. Established in 1945 as a four-year medical school in Birmingham, today the Medical Center complex encompasses approximately twelve city blocks and is ranked among the top academic medical centers in the United States.

University Hospital

UAB University Hospital is Alabama’s major general/acute and tertiary care center and the centerpiece of the UAB Medical Center. A teaching hospital for more than 50 years, UAB Hospital is licensed for 908 beds.

Children’s Hospital

Children’s Hospital is Alabama’s only freestanding pediatric hospital, and it is conveniently located just one block from UAB Hospital.  The close relationship between the two facilities is evident in their frequent collaboration.  Children’s Hospital serves as the primary teaching hospital the UAB Department of Pediatrics, and it is also where the Medicine-Pediatric residents gain half their educational experience.

Veterans Affairs Medical Center

The Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center (BVAMC), structurally connected to UAB Hospital through the VA Research Wing, houses 135 beds 56 of which are assigned to the medical service.
The BVAMC is a major site for the clinical teaching activities of the Department of Medicine.  BVAMC physicians hold full faculty appointment at UAB, providing educational services as attending physicians the general medicine and consultative services.

Cooper Green Hospital

The municipal hospital for Jefferson County, Cooper Green Hospital provides a broad range of primary, secondary, and tertiary care.  It is staffed by the Jefferson Clinic, P.C., a multispecialty group of physicians closely affiliated with UAB’s training programs.  Eight active members represent the specialties of general internal medicine, pulmonary medicine, cardiology, rheumatology, hematology, oncology, and infectious diseases.  The hospital is adjacent to the UAB Medical Center.

Cooper Green Hospital’s internal medicine section complements UAB Hospital’s  educational programs by promoting efficient management of the complex social and medical needs of a diverse group of patients.  Residents may also participate in the BIrmingham Health Care for the Homeless program, which is linked with the Cooper Green Internal Medicine section.  This outstanding program has established one of the nation’s premier models of service delivery for the socially disadvantaged.