Following the planned UAB Health System acquisition announced last month, included Ascension St. Vincent’s operations and sites of care will have a new name: UAB St. Vincent’s.
UAB is closing its Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and taking steps to broadly serve and promote the success of all UAB students, faculty and staff.
The transaction will include current Ascension St. Vincent’s services, facilities, caregivers and associates, including a robust network of providers serving the region and is expected to be completed in the fall of 2024.
The exercise is part of the department’s ongoing efforts to train, as well as test and evaluate, the university’s ability to respond to an active shooter incident.
UAB is in compliance with laws governing autopsies and notes important facts and context given the incorrect and misleading assertions that have circulated about autopsies performed for the Alabama Department of Corrections.
Woodruff-Borden will join UAB on Feb. 1 from the University of Oregon, where she has served as interim provost and executive vice president for the past 15 months.
This study, performed in a pre-clinical human model, is the first time xenotransplanted pig kidneys have shown clearance of creatinine and shown a standard immunosuppression regimen may be sufficient.
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