December specials for employees include discounts on treatments and savings on skin care procedures and products. Please be sure to bring your employee badge to receive the discount.

The Coker family hopes sharing DeVyn’s experience may help others who are fighting similar battles: “God knew that she was the strongest of us all. She is the strongest and most gracious warrior we know.”
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The multi-year grant will fund a comprehensive approach to improving healthcare access in underserved communities.

The team prepared food and played bingo and cards with residents of the home.
Jatinder Kumar, M.B.B.S., M.D., specializes in reconstructive procedures involving the urinary tract and certain reproductive organs. He will be the only reconstructive urologist on the upper Gulf Coast.

Hospital staff coordinated the special evening for young patients, their families and caregivers to celebrate the joy of the season.

The new Whiddon College of Medicine building will provide state-of-the-art laboratory spaces that will create flexibility and efficiency for research today and in the future. It will also allow for expanding the class size of first-year medical students from 80 to 100, with the capability of increasing to 120 in the future, at the same time the nation faces a projected shortage of healthcare providers.

Don’t let this holiday season cause you to feel fear and dread. Be proactive and take steps to prepare for the potential flood of sadness, grief and stress.

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Pediatrician Michael Strickland, M.D., is accepting new patients at USA Health offices in Mobile and Fairhope.

Vicki Curtis, M.S.N., RN, previously served as director of women’s services, overseeing development of the new Mother/Baby Unit and Women’s Complex Care, among other important initiatives.

This month’s safety behavior is part of the universal skill "Communicate Clearly."

With so many fast, healthy, inexpensive, tasty and variable options, skipping the most important meal of the day shouldn’t be one of them.