Birmingham, Alabama - Healthcare facilities

Birmingham Alabama healthcare services are classified as follows: behavioral health, home healthcare, hospice care, long term care, rehabilitation, and skilled nursing (Berry, Blaine, Rogers, McBride, Schor, Birmingham & Feudtner, 2014). This study attempts to identify one example of each category and provides a brief description of the identified facility in terms of name/address, size, ownership, and services supplied.

Hill Crest is a private psychiatric hospital with 94 beds located at 6869 5th Avenue South Birmingham, Alabama 35212. (Berry et al., 2014). It offers highly structured Residential treatment program for persons aged twelve to eighteen years who require long term treatment due to emotional and behavioral illnesses. In addition Hill Crest offers Acute Child Program for children with emotional or psychiatric diseases.

Home healthcare

Name: St. Vincent’s Home Health

Website address: stvhs.com.

St. Vincent is privately and locally owned certified home health facility in Alabama with a capacity of 409 beds. It offers home health care services such as physical therapy, skilled nursing, occupational therapy and many others (Berry et al., 2014). Besides offering home healthcare services, St. Vincent Home Health provides comprehensive Programs like Diabetes Management Program, Psychiatric Program, Orthopedic Joint Replacement Program and many others.

Hospice Care

Name: Comfort Care Hospice

Website address: http://www.comfortcarehomehealth.com, Physical address: 1249 5th Street SW Alabaster, Alabama 35007 Unite States

Comfort care Hospice is privately owned and has bed capacity of about 123 (Berry et al., 2014). Comfort Care Hospice offers therapy and skilled nursing to aid every medical condition. Additionally, it provides skilled specialty programs.

Rehabilitation

Name: Arlington Rehabilitation & Healthcare center

Address: 1020 Tuscaloosa Avenue Birmingham, Alabama 35211

Arlington Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center is corporate owned health facility with 117 beds. Some of services offered in this rehabilitation care include therapeutic activities and rehabilitation, tracheostomy care, long-term restorative nursing, speech therapy and occupational therapy (Berry et al., 2014).

Skilled Nursing

Name: Galleria Woods Skilled Nursing Facility

Address: 3050 Galleria Woods Dr, Birmingham, AL 35244

Galleria Woods Nursing Facility is private owned nursing home with 30 certified beds (Berry et al., 2014). I t provides health care services such as physical therapy, medication management and skilled nursing.

Long term care

Name: St. Martin’s in the Pines

Address: 4941 Montevallo Road Birmingham, AL 35210

St. Martin’s in the Pines is corporate owned health care facility with 138 certified beds (Berry et al., 2014). It provides both Medicare and Medicaid services.

References

Berry, J. G., Blaine, K., Rogers, J., McBride, S., Schor, E., Birmingham, J., ... & Feudtner, C. (2014). A framework of pediatric hospital discharge care informed by legislation, research, and practice. JAMA pediatrics, 168(10), 955-962.