UAB Women & Infants Services

Services Overview:
Ranked among the nation’s top 20 best hospitals for gynecology by U.S.News & World Report 2011-2012, the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is one of the top medical centers in the nation for obstetric and gynecologic care and research. UAB’s Women & Infants Services provides comprehensive care for women – from routine gynecology and obstetrics, to high risk pregnancy, infertility, urogynecology and women’s cancers. As part of a university medical center, specialized care for health concerns like heart disease and a multitude of other specialties and sub-specialties are also immediately available. And this top quality care extends to infants as well, including family-centered well newborn care and specialized care for premature and sick newborns. UAB Hospital’s Regional Newborn Intensive Care Unit (RNICU) is like nowhere else in Alabama and few places in the country, offering the highest and most comprehensive level of care anywhere. Our physicians are highly trained leaders in their fields, many of whom consistently rank among the best by The Best Doctors in America, Inc. And our nursing staff is Magnet-certified, meaning they are recognized by the American Nurses Credentialing Center for providing the highest quality care in the most compassionate manner one patient at a time.

Facilities Overview:
UAB Hospital’s new 430,000-square-foot Women & Infants Center opened in 2010 and has received numerous design and construction awards. It features a five-story glass rotunda and wood, granite and tile mosaic finishes combining beauty with advanced world-class medical technologies and hotel-like amenities such as all private patient rooms, room service meal choices developed by renowned chef Frank Stitt of Birmingham’s national award-winning Highlands Bar and Grill restaurant, flat screen TVs and DVD players, wireless internet access, family lounges and computer centers, chapel, quiet rooms and much more. It also houses the nation’s largest all private room special care nursery consisting of the RNICU and continuing care nursery (CCN).