Mobile: Health Care

Mobile offers a full range of basic and specialty health care in five general hospitals, a women's and children's hospital, both a public and a private mental health hospital, a rehabilitation hospital, outpatient surgery centers, and more than 850 physicians and 175 dentists. A designated regional trauma center, the University of South Alabama Medical Center has a Level I Trauma Center, an emergency helicopter, the region's only burn center, and a cancer center. The University also boasts the USA Children's and Women's Hospital, with sophisticated facilities and services, and Knollwood Park Hospital; the institution also provides instruction through its colleges of medicine, nursing, and allied health professions. The Mobile Infirmary Medical Center is the state's largest not-for-profit hospital and includes cardiac and cancer services plus a 50-bed rehabilitation hospital. Mobile's other hospitals include Providence Hospital, Springhill Medical Center, Thomas Hospital, and Mercy Medical.