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The multi-year grant will fund a comprehensive approach to improving healthcare access in underserved communities.

The team prepared food and played bingo and cards with residents of the home.

Jatinder Kumar, M.B.B.S., M.D., specializes in reconstructive procedures involving the urinary tract and certain reproductive organs. He will be the only reconstructive urologist on the upper Gulf Coast.

Hospital staff coordinated the special evening for young patients, their families and caregivers to celebrate the joy of the season.

The new Whiddon College of Medicine building will provide state-of-the-art laboratory spaces that will create flexibility and efficiency for research today and in the future. It will also allow for expanding the class size of first-year medical students from 80 to 100, with the capability of increasing to 120 in the future, at the same time the nation faces a projected shortage of healthcare providers.

Don’t let this holiday season cause you to feel fear and dread. Be proactive and take steps to prepare for the potential flood of sadness, grief and stress.

USA Health clinicians are experts in their fields, making them trusted sources on a variety of healthcare-related news topics.

Pediatrician Michael Strickland, M.D., is accepting new patients at USA Health offices in Mobile and Fairhope.

Vicki Curtis, M.S.N., RN, previously served as director of women’s services, overseeing development of the new Mother/Baby Unit and Women’s Complex Care, among other important initiatives.

This month’s safety behavior is part of the universal skill "Communicate Clearly."

With so many fast, healthy, inexpensive, tasty and variable options, skipping the most important meal of the day shouldn’t be one of them.

As we reflect, it is important to remember the stories of joy, those of challenge, the people who are with us, and those who have left their legacies of love for us to carry forward.