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Emergency Departments

USA Health treats emergencies at the region's only Level I trauma center at University Hospital, as well as emergency departments at Children's & Women's Hospital, Providence Hospital, and the Freestanding ED in west Mobile.

USA Health Emergency Departments

USA Health University Hospital offers the region’s only Level I trauma center. We also staff the only pediatric emergency center at USA Health Children’s & Women’s Hospital, and in west Mobile, we have both the emergency department at Providence Hospital and a state-of-the-art freestanding emergency department.

University Hospital's Emergency Department and Fanny Meisler Trauma Center

We treat patients throughout the upper Gulf Coast at the USA Health Fanny Meisler Trauma Center on the campus of University Hospital. Persons suffering injuries from automobile accidents, fires, or gunshot wounds or stabbings are transported to the Trauma Center, where a dedicated staff of emergency medicine physicians, trauma surgeons, and other specially trained clinical staff are ready to help. Patients experiencing major illnesses and emergencies are typically treated by our emergency medicine team. Using the most advanced technology, they are trained to take care of cardiac, orthopaedic, stroke and other emergencies.

Children's & Women's Hospital Pediatric Emergency Center

The Pediatric Emergency Center at Children’s & Women’s Hospital is the region’s only healthcare facility dedicated to caring for sick and injured children 24 hours a day, every day. It also is Alabama's only emergency department certified to have 100% pediatric readiness as determined by the Alabama Department of Public Health. The newly expanded center opened in spring 2024 and is nearly 19,000 square feet, more than double the size of the former emergency department.

Providence Hospital Emergency Department

The Emergency Department at USA Health Providence Hospital provides emergency care, including a Level III trauma center, to residents of west Mobile. It operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Before you leave the ER, you will be connected with specialists who can provide follow-up care as you continue your recovery.

Freestanding Emergency Department in west Mobile

The USA Health Freestanding Emergency Department provides people who live and work in west Mobile convenient access to the most advanced emergency and diagnostic care available in the region. Led by board-certified emergency medicine physicians, patient care is supported by significant imaging capabilities, including a CT scanner, an MRI, mammography, X-ray and ultrasound.

Contact Us

If you have a medical emergency, call 911 immediately.

If you want to speak with someone directly in one of our emergency departments, call the numbers below:

University Hospital
Fanny Meisler Trauma Center:
251-471-7300

Children's & Women's Hospital
Pediatric Emergency Center:
251-415-1144

Providence Hospital
Emergency Department:
251-266-1900

Freestanding Emergency Department:
251-341-3800

When to go to the ER?

Sometimes it's hard to know if you should go to an emergency room, urgent care clinic or wait and schedule an appointment with your regular doctor.

These are just a few examples of reasons to call 911 and have an ambulance take you to one of USA Health's emergency departments:
 

  • Choking
  • Breathing difficulties or failure to breathe
  • Head injury with loss of consciousness
  • Injury to neck or spine, especially if there is loss of feeling or inability to move
  • Electric shock or lightning strike
  • Severe burn
  • Severe chest pain or pressure
  • Seizure
  • Passing out, fainting
  • Pain in the arm or jaw
  • Unusual or severe headache, especially if it started suddenly
  • Inability to speak, see, walk or move
  • Sudden weakness or drooping on one side of the body
  • Dizziness or weakness that does not go away
  • Inhaled smoke or poisonous fumes
  • Sudden confusion
  • Heavy bleeding
  • Possible broken bone, especially if the bone is protruding through the skin
  • Deep wound
  • Serious burn
  • Coughing or throwing up blood
  • Severe pain anywhere on the body
  • Severe allergic reaction with trouble breathing, swelling, hives
  • High fever with headache and stiff neck
  • Nausea or diarrhea that does not subside
  • Poisoning
  • Drug or alcohol overdose
  • Suicidal thoughts

Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine

Our physicians are also educators in the Department of Emergency Medicine of the Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine at the University of South Alabama. Visit the Department of Emergency Medicine to learn about its academic mission and residency program.

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