News at USA Health

During their commencement ceremony, graduate students in basic medical sciences receive doctoral degrees and hoods as they embark on the next stage of their careers.

USA Health is now offering the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to those who seek care in the emergency department at University Hospital and those who are hospitalized there.

A casserole dinner is being sent home with patients who deliver at USA Health Children’s & Women’s Hospital.

Nathan Polite, D.O., F.A.C.S., F.A.C.O.S., joins the Level I trauma team at the Fanny Meisler Trauma Center at USA Health University Hospital.

Allen Broome, Pharm.D., the director of health system pharmacy at USA Health, reflects on the Pharmacy Residency Program's first-year achievements.

Rebecca Borneman, a fourth-year medical student at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, has won three awards for research on an anti-cancer compound at the USA Health Mitchell Cancer Institute.

USA Health University Hospital now is equipped with the LUCAS Chest Compression System, a battery-powered device that performs automated chest compressions during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).

The three-year fellowship, one of 61 in the United States, significantly will improve access to gynecologic cancer care for women in Alabama.

Kelsey McKee, M.D., recently returned to join the plastic and reconstructive surgery team and help increase the reconstructive opportunities for patients fighting breast cancer.

Officials with USA Health caution those with travel plans to “know before you go” by getting tested for COVID-19.

USA Health marked a milestone today on the Alabama Gulf Coast, giving its 50,000th dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.

vNOTES is an innovative technique that inserts a device through the vagina to perform common procedures such as hysterectomies. The technique is used to replace laparoscopic surgery, an operation performed using small incisions through the abdomen or pelvis.