UAB Health System

The UAB Health System (UABHS) is a partnership between UAB and the University of Alabama Health Services Foundation (UAHSF), a private nonprofit medical practice made up of the faculty of the UAB School of Medicine. UABHS is governed by a board of directors which has representatives of UAHSF, the University of Alabama Board of Trustees, and UAB administrators. The UAB president is the ex officio chairperson of the UAB Health System. The CEO of the UABHS reports directly to the UAB Health System board and is appointed by the chairman of the board.

In 2024 UAB Health System reached an agreement to purchase the Ascension St Vincent's Health System for $450 million. The acquisition is subject to approval by the Vatican and by US regulators.

UAB Health System components

• UAB Hospital
  • UAB Hospital Emergency Department, 1802 6th Avenue South
  • UAB Russell Clinic
  • UAB Inpatient Rehabilitation Center, 1717 6th Avenue South
  • UAB Medicine Women and Infants Center, 1700 6th Avenue South
    • Hazelrig-Salter Radiation Oncology Center
    • The Workplace Occupational Medicine
  • Whitaker Clinic, 500 22nd Street South
• UAB Hospital-Highlands, 1201 11th Avenue South
  • UAB Medicine Orthopaedics Urgent Care Clinic
  • UAB Family & Community Medicine
  • UAB Vein Clinic
• UAB Medical West, 995 9th Avenue Southwest
• Ascension St Vincent's Health System (acquired 2024)
  • Ascension St Vincent's Birmingham, 810 St Vincent's Drive, Birmingham (409 beds)
  • Ascension St Vincent's East, 50 Medical Park Drive, Birmingham (362 beds)
  • Ascension St Vincent's St Clair, 7063 Veterans Parkway, Pell City (40 beds)
  • Ascension St Vincent's Blount, 150 Gilbreath Drive, Oneonta (40 beds)
  • Ascension St Vincent's One Nineteen, 7191 Cahaba Valley Road, Hoover
    • UAB Sports and Exercise Medicine at St. Vincent's 119
  • Ascension St Vincent's Chilton, 2030 Lay Dam Rd, Clanton, AL (30 beds)
• UAB Medicine Health Centers, clinics operated and staffed by UABHS located throughout central Alabama
  • Camellia Medical Group, 1521 11th Avenue South
  • Gardendale Primary & Specialty Care / Gardendale Freestanding Emergency Department, 960 Rocket Way, Gardendale
  • Hoover Primary & Specialty Care, 501 Emery Drive West, Hoover
  • Lee Branch Primary & Specialty Care, Village at Lee Branch, Hoover
  • UAB Center for Psychiatric Medicine, 1737 6th Avenue South
  • UAB Medicine Inverness, Inverness Center
  • UAB Medicine Leeds, 1141 Payton Way, Leeds
  • UAB Medicine Neurosurgery at Greystone, 7500 Hugh Daniel Drive
  • UAB Medicine Urgent Care, Station 121, Midtown
  • UAB Medicine - The Cancer Center at RMC, Alexander City
    • UAB Heart & Vascular Clinic at Russell Medical
  • UAB Medicine Huntsville, Huntsville
  • UAB Montgomery Internal Medicine, Montgomery
  • UAB Multispecialty Clinic Baptist Medical Center South, Montgomery
  • UAB Medicine Selma, Selma
  • UAB Pediatric Primary Care Clinic, Children's Park Place, 1601 4th Avenue South
  • UAB Plastic Surgery Of Mountain Brook, 2850 Cahaba Road, Mountain Brook
  • UAB eMedicine
• 1917 Clinic, 3220 5th Avenue South, Lakeview
• Beacon Recovery, 530 Beacon Parkway West
• Civitan-Sparks Clinics, 920 20th Street South
• UAB Callahan Eye Foundation Hospital, 1720 University Boulevard
  • UAB Callahan Eye – Cahaba River, 2801 Old Cahaba Court, Vestavia Hills
  • UAB Callahan Eye – Children's South, 1940 Elmer J. Bissell Road
  • UAB Callahan Eye – Gardendale, 960 Rocket Way, Gardendale
  • UAB Callahan Eye – Homewood, 1 Independence Plaza, Homewood
  • UAB Callahan Eye – Hoover, 501 Emery Drive West, Hoover
  • UAB Callahan Eye – Medical West, 985 9th Avenue Southwest
  • UAB Callahan Eye – Oneonta, 150 Gilbreath Drive, Oneonta
  • UAB Callahan Eye – Pelham, 3143 Pelham Parkway, Pelham
  • UAB Callahan Eye – Pell City, 7067 Veterans Parkway, Pell City
  • UAB Callahan Eye – Sylacauga, 209 W. Spring Street, Sylacuaga
  • UAB Callahan Eye – Trussville, 1960 Gadsden Highway, Trussville
  • UAB Callahan Eye – Tuscaloosa, 1030 Fairfax Park, Tuscaloosa
  • UAB Callahan Eye – Vestavia, 1009 Montgomery Highway, Vestavia Hills
• Kirklin Clinic
  • Kirklin Clinic at Acton Road, 2145 Bonner Way
    • O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at Acton Road
    • UAB Heart & Vascular Clinic at Acton Road
• Viva Health, insurance provider

Former UAB Health System components

• Spain Rehabilitation Center, 1717 6th Avenue South
• UAB Proton Therapy Center, 400 20th Street South

Chief executives

• Michael Geheb, August 21, 1995–August 31, 1999
• David Fine, September 1, 1999–May 2004
  • David Hoidal (interim), May–August 4, 2004
• David Hoidal, August 5, 2004–January 3, 2008
  • Ray Watts (interim), January 4–September 2008
• Will Ferniany, September 2008–July 2020
• Reid Jones, July 2020–June 2022
  • Dawn Bulgarella (interim), June 2022–February 2023
• Dawn Bulgarella, February 2023–

History

• October 1, 1996: UAB Health System, a nonprofit entity, established in a joint operating agreement between The University of Alabama Board of Trustees and the University of Alabama Health Services Foundation.
• July 1, 1997: The independent Eye Foundation Hospital was acquired by the UAB Health System and renamed the Eye Foundation Hospital at UAB.
• 2001: The UAB Health System and the Children's Health System announced the approval of a joint operating agreement that covered all pediatric and inpatient women's services and created the nonprofit entity, CWH.
• August 1, 2005: The UAB Health System took over management of the Healthsouth Medical Center while a $33 million sale of the center in Birmingham’s Southside remained pending. The center campus included the main hospital complex, two professional office buildings, parking for over 1,400 cars, and several outlying structures.
• July 1, 2020: The University of Alabama Board of Trustees approved the creation of the UAB Health System Authority. Will Ferniany became the first CEO of the new authority. He was also named as the CEO of the new UAB Health System/Ascension St. Vincent's alliance.
• June 25, 2024: The University of Alabama Board of Trustees approved the purchase of the Ascension St Vincent's Health System.

References

• Leech, Marie (June 25, 2024) "UAB to acquire Ascension St. Vincent's Health System." Birmingham Business Journal
• Morris, Williesha (July 3, 2024) "UAB merger with St. Vincent’s ‘a devastating loss for our Catholic community,’ bishop says." AL.com
• Harwell, Harper (July 8, 2024) "What UAB's acquisition of Ascension means for employees, patients and the overall health care landscape." Birmingham Business Journal

External Links

• Chronological History of UAB