University of Alabama Hospital at Birmingham

Badge: nationally ranked Nationally Ranked Hospital

Badge: regionally ranked Ranked #1 in Birmingham, AL

University of Alabama Hospital at Birmingham in Birmingham, AL is ranked nationally in 9 adult specialties. It was also high-performing in 3 adult specialties, as shown below. University of Alabama Hospital at Birmingham is a 1,052-bed general medical and surgical facility with 45,667 admissions in the most recent year reported. It performed 19,179 annual inpatient and 12,665 outpatient surgeries. Its emergency room had 76,085 visits. University of Alabama Hospital at Birmingham is a teaching hospital. It is accredited by the Joint Commission (JC).

These institutions were also considered in this hospital's specialty rankings:

UAB Highlands

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Adult Specialties

This hospital was among 140 facilities—fewer than 3 percent of the 4,825 analyzed for the latest Best Hospitals rankings—to be ranked in even one of the 16 specialties.

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Patient Satisfaction

Under a federal program, most U.S. hospitals now sample recently discharged patients and ask them about their stay. In a year's worth of surveys, here's how this hospital's patients responded to a key question, along with averages within the state and nationally.

Good

Whether patients would recommend the hospital to friends and family:

Definitely
83%
State Average
70%
National Average
69%
Probably or definitely not
3%
State Average
5%
National Average
5%

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Details

For more about this hospital, see hospital details. The information shown is provided by the American Hospital Association, which compiles data on all U.S. hospitals through an annual survey and from other sources. Hospital ownership, number of doctors and nurses, volume of births and ER visits, and available services such as sports medicine are just a few examples of data collected by the AHA. Find out more at www.ahadata.com.

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Affiliated Hospitals or Services

Contact

University of Alabama Hospital at Birmingham

619 19th Street South

Birmingham, AL 35249

(205) 934–4011

www.health.uab.edu

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