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Revision as of 10:42, 12 September 2016
The UAB Women and Infants Center is a $164 million hospital within the UAB Medical Center. The 430,000 square-foot facility includes an emergency delivery suite, the country's largest private-room neonatal nursery, wireless communication infrastructure, luxurious patient rooms with hidden medical equipment, and several amenities for long-term patients and visiting families. The building faces onto the Limbaugh Park of Hope.
National architecture firm Perkins+Will served as executive architect and Gresham, Smith & Partners served as architect of record for the project, completed in 2010. Brasfield & Gorrie was general contractor.
The hospital occupies Block 176 between 5th and 6th Avenue South and 17th and 18th Street South. It shares a nine-story building with the Hazelrig-Salter Radiation Oncology Center and other faculty and medical offices. It connects on three levels to the UAB North Pavilion also to the new Benjamin Russell Hospital for Children.
References
- Velasco, Anna (December 27, 2009) "UAB Women and Infants Center opening will cap dream." Birmingham News
External links
- UAB Women and Infants Center website