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USA Health is the most comprehensive healthcare organization on the Alabama Gulf Coast, employing 3,800 employees. As an academic health system, USA Health provides advanced and innovative patient care through its hospitals and clinics, as well as first-class training experiences for the next generation of healthcare providers and scientists. In doing so, USA Health has a significant positive impact on the quality of life for all residents across the Gulf Coast. The USA College of Medicine has graduated over 2,600 physicians, and one-third of local physicians trained at the USA College of Medicine and/or USA Health.

The services of USA Health are critical to the city’s economic success. Without these essential health services, many of our large international employers could not locate here. Austal, Airbus and Evonik, to name a few, must have these services to operate in our community. In addition, the City of Mobile and the Chamber of Commerce rely heavily on having these services to recruit new corporations and businesses to the region.

USA Health also has provided the community with more than $1.1 billion in unreimbursed care since 1969, including $73,000,000 in unreimbursed medical care in 2017. USA Health is the safety net provider for the City of Mobile, Mobile County and the region, providing more uncompensated healthcare than all other healthcare providers combined.

University Hospital is on the front line in delivering nationally recognized quality care to the area’s most critically ill patients, with the region’s only Level I trauma center and a burn center that provides care from injury to recovery. The life-saving care that stroke and heart patients receive has been recognized year after year by the American Heart Association.  University Hospital also plays a key role in the education of tomorrow’s healthcare professionals, each year training 
hundreds of future professionals from the colleges of Medicine, Nursing and Allied Health Professions.

USA Children’s & Women’s Hospital, among a handful of freestanding hospitals in the United States devoted exclusively to the care of children and women, offers the region’s most advanced neonatal intensive care and pediatric intensive care units. The hospital delivers nearly 3,000 babies each year and specializes in high-risk OB/GYN patients. Hospital staff offer a variety of innovative programs for hospitalized children, teens and their families to meet their developmental, educational, social and emotional needs.

Combining cutting-edge research with advanced care, the USA Mitchell Cancer Institute fights cancer from the laboratory bench to the patient’s bedside. With more than 40 clinical trials and 50,000 annual patient visits, MCI is the only academic-based cancer research and treatment facility on the Gulf Coast. In July 2017, MCI opened the Kilborn Clinic in Fairhope, an 11,000-square-foot space that includes exam rooms, cancer treatment areas and physicians’ offices.

USA Physicians Group includes nearly 200 physicians and provides more than 190,000 patient visits each year. It is the region’s largest multispecialty practice and the only academic physicians group on the Gulf Coast. Physicians are on faculty at the USA College of Medicine, and the majority of USA Health clinics are now located in the new Judith Susan and Samuel Joseph Strada Patient Care Center, which contains 153 patient exam rooms, 16 nurses stations and seven educational conference rooms. The 133,000-square-foot building houses clinics for pediatrics, neurosciences, surgical specialties, obstetrics & gynecology, orthopaedics and therapy services, as well as a breast and mammography center.