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Shelton State Community College employees and their families have the opportunity to receive non-emergency health-care services at University Medical Center’s Faculty-Staff Clinic. The clinic also offers services to UA employees and their families. The Faculty-Staff Clinic is staffed by master’s prepared nurse practitioners who provide walk-in care and scheduled appointments for illnesses, minor medical urgencies,…

March is National Nutrition month and having healthy eating habits lowers risks for serious conditions such as heart disease, diabetes and other health problems. At University Medical Center, our registered dietician, Suzanne Henson, provides nutritional services and guidelines for healthy eating that includes planning meals, exercising and eating more fruits and vegetables. To make an…

University Medical Center holds Patient-Centered Medical Home certifications at its Northport location and at its Family Medicine and Pediatric clinics at its Tuscaloosa location. PCMH is a model of primary care that focuses on providing high-quality, coordinated and patient-centered care.

March 10 – 14, 2025 UMC Location Operating Hours UMC – Tuscaloosa 8:30am – 2:30pm UMC – Northport 8:30am – 2:30pm UMC – Demopolis 8:30am – 2:30pm UMC – Fayette CLOSED UMC – Livingston 8:30am – 2:30pm UMC – Carrollton 8:30am – 12:30pm

CCHS’s monthly Art of Medicine Rounds lecture, “Helping physicians become better healers: A prescription of poetry and art,” is Thursday, March 6, 2025, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm in the CCHS Classrooms (850 Peter Bryce Blvd, Tuscaloosa, Ala., 35401). The guest speaker is Stacy Nigliazzo, author of three books of poems: Scissored Moon, Sky the Oar…

Exercise is a cornerstone for the prevention and treatment of disease and should be prescribed by physicians to their patients and added to the curriculum of medical schools and residency programs, said Dr. Irfan Asif, endowed professor of sports and exercise medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine. “There’s an…

The University of Alabama College of Community Health Sciences is launching a new residency program to help address the critical need for psychiatrists in the state. The newly accredited University of Alabama Tuscaloosa Psychiatry Residency Program is a four-year education and training program for medical school graduates that will prepare board-eligible residents in the field…

Dr. Ginger Medders joined University Medical Center in Tuscaloosa as a family medicine and sports medicine physician. She is also an assistant professor in the Department of Family, Internal, and Rural Medicine at the College of Community Health Sciences, which operates UMC. In addition, Medders teaches resident physicians at The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa Family…

Medicare Annual Wellness Visits (MAWVs) provide preventive health care that can help people stay healthy longer and catch potential health issues early, when they are most treatable, said Danielle Spree, a clinical care quality manager at University Medical Center. MAWVs are yearly prevention-focused visits where patients and their primary-care providers develop a personalized health-care plan…

Members of The University of Alabama’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) had the opportunity to ask health-related questions to Drs. Jane and Tom Weida, family medicine physicians at University Medical Center, during a February Mini Medical School presentation. Mini Medical School is a collaborative program of UMC and OLLI that provides lectures by UMC health-care…