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RESOURCES
FACILITIES
UAB Hospital
The center of UAB’s clinical enterprise, UAB
Hospital is located in Birmingham’s medical
district. In the midst of UAB’s major research
centers and clinics, the 1,157-licensed-bed
hospital is among the 20 largest and bestequipped in the nation. We provide patients
with a complete range of primary and specialty
care services and the most up-to-date
treatments and innovations in health care.
Here patients will receive tomorrow’s medicine
today for both routine and complex diagnoses.
As a major center for clinical research, patients
may be offered treatments at UAB Hospital
that are unavailable elsewhere in the area.
The Kirklin Clinic of UAB Hospital
Opened in 1992, The Kirklin Clinic of UAB
Hospital is a specially designed “superclinic”
for outpatient care, housing more than 600
physicians in 35 specialties and serving more
than 2,000 patients each day. It is one of the
busiest outpatient centers in America and is
world-renowned for its focus on compassion,
dedication, and excellence for patients
and families.
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