The UAB Department of Pathology is proud to announce the expansion of its Community Practice Pathology Program (CPPP) deeper into Northeast Alabama with the addition of the Riverview Regional Medical Center, effective August 1.
The Department will provide a full range of anatomic pathology services at the site.
Jennifer Gordetsky, M.D., Associate Professor, Anatomic Pathology, UAB Department of Pathology, will serve as Medical Director and Site Chief.
"The new relationship between the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Pathology and Riverview Regional Medical Center will allow more patients to have access to high-quality diagnostics,” Gordetsky says. “It is my pleasure to serve as Medical Director for the Department of Pathology at Riverview Regional Medical Center as a part of this effort to bring the excellence associated with UAB pathology to the patients here in Gadsden."
Ian Martin, M.D., joins the team as assistant professor of pathology. Faculty performing work at RRMC will be overseen by Walter Bell, M.D., Professor and Chief of the CPPP, and by Gene Siegal, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Anatomic Pathology and Interim Chair, UAB Department of Genetics. The faculty will be credentialed by the MDSO + Health System Foundation to meet the UAB Standard of Care.
Riverview Regional Medical Center is a short-term acute care facility located at 600 South Third Street, Gadsden, AL, opened in 1931. Owned by Prime Healthcare Services (purchased from Community Health Systems March 2015), Riverview has 281 total beds, and 500 Medicare inpatient surgeries per year. Annually, it serves more than 350,000 residents in Etowah and surrounding counties.
The volume in surgical pathology procedures prior to UAB Pathology enhancing services is 3,500 annually. Expected volume in the next two years, under the expansion program is 6,000 annually.
Additional locations where the Department has a community based health system practice throughout the state include:
Northeast Regional Medical Center, Anniston
Baptist Medical Center East, Montgomery
Baptist Medical Center South, Montgomery
RMC Stringfellow Memorial Hospital, Anniston
Prattville Baptist Hospital, Prattville
The CPPP Program is also supported by UAB Department of Pathology faculty assistant professors Darryl Sanders, M.D., and Manjula Garapati, M.D., in Anniston; Ian Martin, M.D., Evan Alston, M.D., and Sam Borak, M.D., in Montgomery. These faculty will also help support the UAB Pathology work load.
“This program is vital to our support of the community providing the same quality of service expected at a leading academic medical center like UAB,” said George Netto, M.D., Chair of the Department of Pathology.