The University of Alabama at Birmingham Health System Authority has assumed ownership of Ascension St. Vincent’s Health System in central Alabama.
UAB had announced the $450 million deal in June. It includes all of Ascension St. Vincent’s care sites, including hospitals at Birmingham, Blount, Chilton, East and St. Clair, the One Nineteen Campus, the Trussville Freestanding Emergency Department, and imaging centers and other clinics.
Former St. Vincent’s sites are now officially UAB St. Vincent’s.
“We are thrilled to welcome St. Vincent’s patients, caregivers and associates to the UAB Medicine community,” said UAB Health System CEO Dawn Bulgarella. “We are grateful and excited for how well this acquisition has been received by patients, as well as the St. Vincent’s and UAB teams. I look forward to seeing how the combining of these two great health systems enhances patients’ access to a larger network of care, creates exciting opportunities for our people and makes Alabama’s healthcare system more sustainable.”
