News at USA Health

Several hundred people attended the first NICU reunion since the start of the pandemic, to celebrate life and hope.

USA Health employees, patients and others can participate in a daylong event at University Hospital to learn more about creating an advance directive, which can communicate their wishes regarding future medical care.

Spiritual care extenders will be trained through the Spiritual Care Department to provide emotional and spiritual support for people of all faiths.

Women may be small in number in some medical specialties overall, but they embrace the advantages – and challenges – of being in the minority.

Constance Dabezies, M.D., treats patients at USA Health Eastern Shore OB-GYN, located at the Eastern Shore Centre in Spanish Fort.

During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Natalie Fox, D.N.P., PNP-BC, led USA Health’s efforts to provide timely and convenient COVID testing and, later vaccine administration through a partnership with the City of Mobile.

The Office of Graduate Medical Education recently received approval from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) for the five-year residency program to begin in July.

Match Day is an annual event where future physicians at medical schools across the United States and Canada simultaneously learn where they will be completing their residency training

Bassam Bassam, M.D., recently presented at the CNSA annual meeting and will be presenting at two upcoming national conferences.

The NICU Reunion serves as a celebration of life and a reminder of hope for the caregivers “who were never willing to give up, even when the chances of progress were bleak.”

Ashley Williams Hogue, M.D., won the 2023 Cox-Templeton Injury Prevention Paper Competition from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma.

The initiative, led by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in partnership with Merck for Mothers, aims to understand how to best support changes to clinical and administrative processes that will lead to safer and more equitable postpartum care and support for all mothers.