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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.
UAB Callahan Eye Hospital: Birmingham: Jefferson: 12: Level I-Ocular Trauma: Was the first Level I ocular trauma center in the nation [8] UAB Hospital: Birmingham: Jefferson: 1,242: Level I: Verified by the American College of Surgeons [6] UAB Hospital Highlands: Birmingham: Jefferson: 73: None: Formerly HealthSouth Medical Center: UAB Medical ...
Friarage Hospital is a 189-bed hospital located in Northallerton, North Yorkshire, England. The hospital covers a large section of rural North Yorkshire and the Vale of York which amounts to over 120,000 people in 390 square miles (1,000 km 2 ).
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.
In 1945, the Medical College of Alabama was moved from Tuscaloosa to Birmingham and the university's medical center was founded. [5] In November 1966, the Extension Center and the Medical Center were merged to form the "University of Alabama in Birmingham", an organizational component of The University of Alabama.
Cooper Green Mercy Health Services is owned by Jefferson County, Alabama. It first opened as Mercy Hospital in 1972 as a 319-bed acute care facility and was renamed for former Birmingham mayor Cooper Green three years later. It is located at 1515 6th Avenue South, adjacent to UAB Hospital on Birmingham's Southside. After four decades, the ...
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 hospital became the James Cook University Hospital in 2001 to reflect the local heritage and growing academic links. [4] New facilities were procured under a Private Finance Initiative contract to replace Middlesbrough General Hospital, North Riding Infirmary in Middlesbrough and the neuro-rehabilitation unit at West Lane Hospital in 1999. [5]