Infirmary Health
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Central Gulf Coast (BBBSCGC) and the Eastern Shore Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s Student Training and Exploration Program (STEP) are joining missions to serve Eastern Shore students by providing one-to-one, professionally supported mentorship with access to career pathways exploration. During the 2024-2025 school year, BBBSCGC will help the chamber enhance…
Infirmary Health and UnitedHealthcare (UHC) have reached a new, long-term commercial insurance hospital-services contract. Effective immediately, all UHC patients will resume in-network coverage at Infirmary Health hospitals, and any care administered during the period of contract suspension, which began on June 4, will retroactively be covered as in-network. Infirmary Health said it will communicate with…
Infirmary Health has released a statement regarding contract negotiations with UnitedHealthcare (UHC): “Infirmary Health’s commercial insurance hospital-services contract with UHC ended at 12:01 a.m. June 4. Therefore, effective June 4, UHC commercial insurance patients will no longer have in-network coverage for inpatient or outpatient services at Infirmary Health hospitals (Mobile Infirmary, Thomas Hospital, North Baldwin…
Infirmary Health has announced a new fall event: Sunshine Sprint, which is scheduled for September 28 and will feature an 8K race and 1-mile fun run. The race will start on the campus of North Baldwin Infirmary and will wind through Downtown Bay Minette. Early registration is open for the inaugural race, which marks the…
Anna Szymanski, an athletic trainer with Infirmary Health’s sports medicine program who works with Saraland City Schools, was recently awarded the Alabama Athletic Trainers Association Life Saver Award for her role in an event at Saraland High School in 2023. The award, created in 2024, is given to an athletic trainer who has represented the…
For the 12th consecutive year, Infirmary Health has committed an excess of $100,000 to charitable organizations in Mobile and Baldwin counties. Through the health system’s iHelp program, Infirmary Health made donations to more than 40 organizations, including the American Cancer Society, American Heart Association, 100 Black Men of Mobile, Drug Education Council, Big Brothers Big…
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Central Gulf Coasts is celebrating its match of Big Brother Arthur and Little Brother Jayce at Fairhope West Elementary. This officially begins the nonprofit’s partnership with Infirmary Health’s Thomas Hospital in Baldwin County. Infirmary Health has served as a Corporate Big Partner for more than a decade, a partnership…
Infirmary Health’s Heart & Vascular Institute (HVI) completed its 300th case utilizing the latest-generation Watchman FLX Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) Closure Device. Dr. Mina Jacob, an interventional cardiologist with Diagnostic & Medical Clinic, successfully completed the 300th case at Mobile Infirmary. The Watchman FLX is an alternative to the lifelong use of blood thinners for…
Infirmary Health is now offering a new treatment for chronic back pain with the Intracept procedure. It said that Dr. Leslie Rush, a pain management physician with Gulf Orthopaedics, performed the first Intracept procedure in the Gulf Coast Region at Infirmary Health’s Daphne Surgery Center. Intracept is a minimally invasive procedure that targets a specific…
Dr. Ashley B. Steffens has joined Infirmary Health Rehabilitation Specialists after completing her residency at University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Hospital. Steffens specializes in treating patients with physical and cognitive disabilities caused by injuries. Physical medicine and rehabilitation physicians use a range of treatments such as physical therapy, medication and injections to address a…
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