Uab Medicine Enterprise

“Uab health system ("uabhs" or "the organization") has two members, the board of trustees of the university of alabama and the university of alabama health services foundation, p.c. Each member appoints 9 of the directors of the uabhs board.”

“Member approval is required for: 1) sale, lease or other disposition, other than in the ordinary course of business, of any uabhs material operating assets; 2) uabhs assignment of its rights to a third party; 3) addition of new members to uabhs; 4) issuance or incurrence of debt by uabhs; and 5) any capital expenditure by uabhs with its own funds over $5,000,000.”

“The form 990 is prepared by pricewaterhousecoopers, llp. After the form 990 is prepared, it is reviewed by the organization's finance staff, the chairman of the board, two additional board members, and the chief executive officer.”

“Annual disclosures are required and are reviewed by the university of alabama at birmingham health systems board.”

“A compensation consultant is engaged to advise the board of directors on the ceo's compensation and the compensation of other key members of management. The compensation committee of the board annually reviews the ceo's total compensation and submits its recommendation of the ceo's compensation for the coming year to the board for its approval.”

“The organization makes its governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements available to the public upon request.”

“To provide common management of the existing and future healthcare delivery operations of the board of trustees of the university of alabama and the university of alabama health services foundation.”

“Section 1: mission statement and uabhs introduction the uab health system (uabhs) is an alabama nonprofit corporation that oversees the academic medical center activities of its two members, the university of alabama board of trustees and the university of alabama health services foundation, which collaboratively provide quality health care to the citizens of alabama and individuals from across the nation and the world. Uabhs' mission is to improve the health and well-being of society, particularly the citizens of alabama, by providing innovative health services of exceptional value, quality, and patient safety, a superior environment for the education of health professionals, and support for research to advance medical science. Uabhs supports the activities of the uab school of medicine by overseeing hospital and clinic operations, fostering residency and fellowship training programs, supporting the recruitment, training, and retention of faculty, and creating highly innovative, well-coordinated interdisciplinary clinical programs and partnering relationships that serve as a model for health care education and service delivery. Uabhs is internationally recognized for its tripartite mission of providing the highest level of patient care, outstanding education of medical professionals, and the advancement of science in medicine through groundbreaking research in areas such as oncology, neurosciences, transplantation, cardiology, trauma and burn treatment, rehabilitation, immunobiology, virology, gene therapy, and genomics. Uabhs encompasses the largest multispecialty group of health care professionals in alabama, with more than 1,319 physicians serving patients from every state in the nation and many countries around the world. It is a major regional, tertiary referral center that treats some of the most critical patients in the southeast. In fy 2015, uabhs entities discharged nearly 87,000 patients and had 316,155 emergency department visits. Despite the financial strain it places on the organization, uabhs cares for the sickest, most vulnerable patients, serving as a safety net for those who are turned away from other care providers. Uncompensated care costs do not include other unfunded costs of care, such as underpayment from medicaid and medicare. Uabhs provides significant charity care to indigent individuals who are not covered by insurance. Uabhs' estimated cost incurred for charity care provided to indigent individuals in fiscal year fy 2015 was $71,036,984. Uabhs also provides care to a large number of individuals covered by governmental programs that may reimburse below cost. In fy 2015, uabhs' unreimbursed cost for treating medicaid patients was $94,512,354. In addition, uabhs entities provide health care services to many individuals who cannot pay for all or any of their medical care. In fy 2015, the cost for this bad debt was $112,810,308. Section 2: uabhs entities uabhs' flagship facility is the 1,157-bed uab hospital, one of the nation's largest public hospitals. It includes the uab women & infants center, spain rehabilitation center, the center for psychiatric medicine, and the freestanding uab hospital-highlands. As alabama's only level 1 trauma center (as designated by the american college of surgeons), uab hospital provides care for many of the most serious injuries that occur anywhere in the state through its emergency department, operating rooms, trauma/burn unit, and spain rehabilitation center, one of the southeast's foremost providers of comprehensive rehabilitation care. The women & infants center offers advanced services and the latest medical technology to care for healthy and high-risk pregnant women, healthy and high-risk newborns, and women receiving care for a variety of gynecological problems, including gynecological cancers. It includes uab's regional newborn intensive care unit (rnicu), the state's largest. Together with children's of alabama, uab offers the only level iv nicu in alabama - des”

“Uabhs is dedicated to providing health care and screening and prevention programs to poor and underprivileged individuals. Uabhs' many programs include the uab comprehensive cancer center's deep south network for cancer control, which works to eliminate disparities in cancer death rates between blacks and whites, targeting two poor rural and two poor urban areas in alabama and mississippi, to promote community awareness programs, minority enrollment in clinical trials, and development of minority junior biomedical researchers. Still another program that focuses on minorities and the medically underserved is the minority health and health disparities research center, a comprehensive educational, research, and community outreach center focused on eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities; among its many programs is a health awareness and intervention storefront in downtown birmingham. Other programs that provide essential health care services to poor and medically underserved individuals include the tot shots program that offers free, walk-in, immunization services in community-based clinics in partnership with the jefferson county department of health and others; the valley foundation childhood immunization program, a program designed to remove educational and financial barriers to increase immunization rates of underserved children age 19 to 35 months; and equal access birmingham, a free clinic run by an interdisciplinary team of uab volunteer physicians, medical students, and other healthcare professionals who provide free medical care and health education to medically uninsured residents of birmingham. Uabhs affiliate baptist health has developed the careadvisor program, which provides patients at home with primary care services, medications, and transportation to office visits at no cost to those patients. The program was designed to reduce readmission rates and improve outcomes for the recently discharged, as well improve as the health and wellness of patients in the baptist health community. Uab mental health services include the community psychiatry program, which serves more than 2,000 adults with serious mental illness residing in the catchment area of central jefferson county. It provides psychiatric evaluation, state-of-the-art treatment, an assertive community treatment team with outreach into the community, and a day treatment program. The adult psychiatry program offers evaluation and treatment, including psychotherapy. The engel school, that serves preschool and school age children, provides a day treatment program that allows children to maintain academic progress. Special populations are served, including children and adults with attention deficit disorder, young adults who are experiencing their first episode of psychosis, and an lgbtq clinic. The center for psychiatric medicine reserves 10 beds for the alabama department of mental health for the care of adolescents who are wards of the state, filling a needed gap in the existing continuum of care. The hospital also renovated, equipped, and staffed a new 20-bed unit in response to another community need: housing patients who are in the process of legal commitment to the state mental health hospital or who are expected to need a more prolonged hospitalization. Psychiatric consultation is readily available for patients in emergency or inpatient services. The uab substance abuse program supports the community with substance abuse prevention, treatment, offender supervision, and research, including: treatment alternatives for safer communities, a program that works to improve the criminal justice system including adult(i.e. Problem solving courts, community corrections, and pretrial release) and youth efforts (i.e. Adolescent substance abuse program, electronic monitoring, prevention, juvenile drug court); the beacon addiction treatment center, which provides abstinence-based outpatient and intensive outpatient substance abuse treatment for adults and adole”

“Uab school of medicine faculty direct the civitan international research center (circ) which has as its mission improving the well-being and the quality of life of individuals and families affected by intellectual and developmental disabilities, including individuals with rare disorders that often have difficulty finding a medical home that offers state-of-the-art treatment from qualified specialists. Circ faculty seek to expand knowledge about human development and developmental disabilities through conducting basic and applied research and to use this knowledge to develop and provide high quality, exemplary services and programs, interdisciplinary clinical and research training in developmental disabilities, and a timely exchange of information with consumers, practitioners, scientists, and society. The uab department of genetics, a component of the uab school of medicine, delivers outstanding care for patients and families with or at risk for genetic conditions. The department provides community education; comprehensive prenatal, pediatric, and adult inpatient and outpatient genetic services, including diagnosis, medical management, clinical trials of new treatments, and genetic counseling; state-of-the-art laboratory services, including cytogenetics, molecular genetics, and biochemical genetics; and exceptional clinics that offer uncommon services, such as the marfan syndrome clinic. For some conditions, such as neurofibromatosis, tuberous sclerosis complex, and lysosomal storage disorders, the department is a national and international referral source. The department also is home to the uab undiagnosed diseases program, which offers comprehensive assessment of children and adults with complex multi-system disorders that have been difficult to diagnose. The program is able to offer whole genome sequencing to help identify rare genetic causes for complex disorders. Section 5: provision of essential health services uab hospital has been ranked on u.s. News and world report's "best hospitals" list for 23 consecutive years, and it is ranked no. 1 in alabama. The clinical enterprise offers cutting-edge patient care, technologically advanced facilities, doctors at the top of their fields of expertise, and nurses and medical staff who go above and beyond for their patients every day. To maintain and extend its excellence, uabhs has undertaken major processes to keep patient satisfaction, quality, safety, and other factors at a high level. Uabhs is a major referral center offering a comprehensive range of primary health care services as well as specialty and subspecialty care, including the provision of cardiovascular care, minimally invasive cardiac, urological, and gynecological surgical procedures; robotic surgery, neurosurgery, comprehensive cancer services, comprehensive treatment of hiv/aids, geriatrics, emergency hyperbaric wound care, rheumatology, dermatology, reconstructive surgery for adults and children, transplantation, and many others. Alabama's diabetes and obesity rates are among the highest in the nation, and uabhs facilities include a comprehensive diabetes center whose faculty are engaged in providing the highest quality innovative care to diabetes patients; conducting cutting-edge research into the causes and mechanisms of diabetes; and training future generations of diabetes clinicians and researchers. Uab hospital's inpatient diabetes and glycemic control program now identifies and treats all patients entering the hospital and refers new or problematic patients to newly formed follow-up clinics. The uab center for aids research (cfar) is one of the seven original centers established in 1988 by the national institute for allergy and infectious diseases to stimulate research and scientific advancement concerning aids and hiv. From its inception, the birmingham cfar has played a pivotal role in stimulating and supporting research in both the basic and clinical sciences. In keeping with our strategic plan, the ua”