Editing Mobile, Alabama (section)

===Healthcare===
[[File:Mobile Infirmary front facade.jpg|thumb|Mobile Infirmary Medical Center]]
[[File:Providence Hospital Mobile 01.jpg|thumb|Providence Hospital]]

Mobile serves the central Gulf Coast as a regional center for medicine, with over 850 physicians and 175 dentists. There are four major medical centers within the city limits.

Mobile Infirmary Medical Center has 704 beds and is the largest nonprofit hospital in the state. It was founded in 1910. [[USA Health Providence Hospital|Providence Hospital]] has 349 beds. It was founded in 1854 by the [[Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul|Daughters of Charity]] from [[Emmitsburg, Maryland]]. The University of South Alabama Medical Center has 346 beds. Its roots go back to 1830 with the old city-owned [[Mobile City Hospital]] and associated medical school. A teaching hospital, it is designated as Mobile's only [[level I trauma center]] by the [[Alabama Department of Public Health]].<ref name="trauma">{{Cite web |last=Sharp |first=Jon |date=December 4, 2018 |title=USA trauma center gets state boost as governor eyes rural health problem |url=https://www.al.com/news/mobile/2018/12/usa-trauma-center-gets-state-boost-as-governor-eyes-rural-health-problem.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201212222423/https://www.al.com/news/mobile/2018/12/usa-trauma-center-gets-state-boost-as-governor-eyes-rural-health-problem.html |archive-date=December 12, 2020 |access-date=December 30, 2020 |publisher=AL.com}}</ref><ref name="usatrauma">{{Cite web |title=Our Facilities: USA Family Medicine |url=http://fammed.usouthal.edu/residencyprogram/facilities.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190407171959/http://fammed.usouthal.edu/residencyprogram/facilities.html |archive-date=April 7, 2019 |access-date=December 30, 2020 |website=University of South Alabama College of Medicine}}</ref><ref name="Alabama Trauma Centers">{{cite web |url= https://www.alabamapublichealth.gov/aths/trauma-center-levels.html |title=Trauma Centers |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=December 15, 2020 |website=Alabama Public Health |publisher=Alabama Department of Public Health |access-date=December 31, 2020 |quote=}}</ref> It is also a  regional burn center. Springhill Medical Center, with 252 beds, was founded in 1975. It is Mobile's only for-profit facility.<ref name="mobchamber3">{{cite web |title=Healthcare |work=Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce |url=http://www.mobilechamber.com/healthcare.asp |access-date=January 28, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509124546/http://www.mobilechamber.com/healthcare.asp |archive-date=May 9, 2008 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all}}</ref>

Additionally, the University of South Alabama operates the University of South Alabama Children's and Women's Hospital with 219 beds, dedicated exclusively to the care of women and minors.<ref name="mobchamber3"/> In 2008, the University of South Alabama opened the USA Mitchell Cancer Center Institute. The center is home to the first academic cancer research center in the central Gulf Coast region.<ref>{{cite news |first=Casandra |last=Andrews |title=USA Mitchell Cancer Institute opens in Mobile |url=https://www.al.com/live/2008/09/usa_mitchell_cancer_institute.html |work=Press Register |publisher=al.com |date=September 18, 2008 |access-date=March 23, 2009}}</ref>

Mobile Infirmary Medical Center operated Infirmary West, formerly Knollwood Hospital, with 100 acute-care beds, but closed the facility at the end of October 2012 due to declining revenues.<ref>{{cite news |first=Brendan |last=Kirby |title=Citing Obamacare, Infirmary Health System announces it will close Infirmary West Hospital |url=https://www.al.com/live/2012/10/citing_obamacare_infirmary_hea.html |work=Press Register |publisher=al.com |date=October 15, 2012 |access-date=December 4, 2021}}</ref>

BayPointe Hospital and Children's Residential Services is the only psychiatric hospital in the city. It houses a residential unit for children, an acute unit for children and adolescents, and an age-segregated involuntary hospital unit for adults undergoing evaluation ordered by the Mobile Probate Court.<ref name="baypointe">{{cite web |title=Children's Hospital and Residential Services |work=AltaPointe Health Systems |url=http://www.altapointe.org/baypoint.htm |access-date=February 2, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080614020724/http://www.altapointe.org/baypoint.htm |archive-date=June 14, 2008}}</ref>

The city has a broad array of outpatient surgical centers, emergency clinics, home health care services, assisted-living facilities and [[Nursing home|skilled nursing facilities]].<ref name="mobchamber3"/><ref name="nursing homes">{{cite web |title=Alabama Nursing Home Association |url=http://www.anha.org/ |access-date=January 29, 2008}}</ref>