UMC expands companies over summer season

University Medical Center, operated by the College of Community Health Sciences, just lately expanded companies to enhance the standard of healthcare offered for The University of Alabama and West Alabama communities.

UMC Tuscaloosa now provides life-style medication companies to assist sufferers stop, handle and even reverse persistent illness by wholesome life-style modifications.

Dr. Ansley Baccus, a household medication doctor at UMC, mentioned the strategy provides extra complete care by serving to sufferers construct sustainable wholesome habits.

“The goal is to focus on what’s causing disease and give patients the tools and support they need to make lasting lifestyle changes,” she mentioned. “These changes can significantly improve health and, in some cases, reduce the need for medications.”

UMC’s life-style medication companies will give attention to six key areas of wholesome dwelling: diet, bodily exercise and sleep, together with stress administration, social connection and avoidance of dangerous substances. Appointments embrace hour-long visits with life-style assessments, diet counseling and individualized wellness plans that key in on wholesome consuming, train routines, and methods to enhance sleep and handle stress.

The effort additionally goals to enhance entry to care by addressing obstacles reminiscent of transportation and entry to wholesome meals in partnership with neighborhood sources.

The companies are referral-based, that means sufferers are usually referred by their major care supplier.

UMC can be growing entry to obstetrics and gynecology care with the addition of Partlow, Harbin & Poist OBGYN, a number one medical group for ladies’s healthcare.

“This group is very experienced and well respected in the community,” mentioned Dr. John McDonald, medical professor and chair of the division of obstetrics and gynecology at CCHS and a training obstetrician and gynecologist at UMC. “Their doctors bring more than 65 years of serving the West Alabama community to UMC. We are very fortunate to have them join University Medical Center and continue to provide very high-quality women’s health services in Tuscaloosa and the surrounding area.”

Partlow, Harbin & Poist have three extremely educated and board-certified physicians who present each routine and specialised care for ladies. Services embrace gynecology, obstetrics and primary infertility, in addition to bladder dysfunction testing and enhanced ultrasound for uterine fibroids.

The physicians at Partlow, Harbin & Poist are board licensed fellows of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, acknowledged for his or her excessive skilled standing, moral conduct and experience in ladies’s healthcare.

“The physicians and staff of Parlow, Harbin & Poist are proud to be joining the UMC family, said Dr. James Poist. “We have worked alongside our UMC colleagues for years, and now we feel energized and excited to be partnering with them.”

Current Partlow, Harbin & Poist sufferers ought to expertise a seamless transition. Though the apply identify will change to UMC OBGYN Associates, affected person appointments will proceed to happen at Partlow, Harbin & Poist’s present location within the DCH Medical Tower.

UMC has lengthy offered OB/GYN and different ladies’s well being companies, and the addition of Partlow, Harbin & Poist will develop entry to that care, mentioned Dr. Richard Friend, dean of CCHS.

“This will provide much-needed access to women’s healthcare services for the community, and it will provide additional learning and training experiences for the College’s medical students, resident physicians and fellows,” Friend mentioned.