UAB Medicine St. Vincent’s St. Clair
Pell City, AL 35215
Main Hospital
Located in Pell City, UAB Medicine St. Vincent’s St. Clair is a full-service hospital with a 24/7 emergency room and serves as a destination for specialty care. It includes the Bruno Cancer Center and the Cataract Treatment Center, along with a full-service maternity care team that offers a personalized birthing experience.
Opened in 2011, UAB Medicine St. Vincent’s St. Clair is licensed for 40 beds. It features medical-surgical nursing and ICU units and both inpatient and outpatient surgical services – including a gastrointestinal (GI) lab. It performs a wide range of minimally invasive procedures using robotic-assisted technology and offers advanced imaging scans and on-site laboratory testing.
Our services include:
- Cancer care
- OB/GYN and maternity care
- Pediatric care
- Respiratory care
- Neurological services
- Orthopaedics
- Sports medicine
- Physical therapy
- Occupational health
- Speech therapy
- Diabetes education
- Pain management
- Advanced wound care center
- Sleep disorders center
- Transitional care
- Weight loss
Emergency
UAB Medicine St. Vincent’s St. Clair Emergency is staffed by cardiovascular, stroke, and trauma specialists. It provides 24/7 emergency care for life-threatening conditions and severe illness and injury, including heart attack, stroke, concussion, broken bones, and more. Patients are connected with the appropriate follow-up care before leaving.
Our ER features private treatment rooms, complete digital imaging services (including X-ray, CT scan, and ultrasound), and an on-site laboratory. Admission to UAB Medicine St. Vincent’s can be arranged, when needed.
Life-threatening symptoms
Call 911 or go directly to the nearest emergency room if you or a family member is experiencing any of the following symptoms or health events:
- Abdominal pain (moderate to severe)
- Back pain (severe)
- Chest pain
- Coughing up or vomiting blood
- Major trauma
- Pregnancy labor pains
- Severe allergic reactions
- Severe burns
- Shortness of breath
- Severe skin infections or complicated abscesses
- Sudden neurologic changes such as weakness, difficulty speaking, numbness, difficulty walking, or loss of consciousness
Advanced Wound Care Center
UAB Medicine St. Vincent’s Advanced Wound Care Center-St. Clair provides expert care for when a wound isn’t healing as it should. We listen carefully to your needs and concerns and create a customized care plan to help.
We specialize in treating complex, slow-healing wounds, including diabetic foot ulcers and leg ulcers. Our treatments include:
- Cellulitis therapy
- Compression therapy
- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
- Infection management and prevention
- Wound cleaning
- Wound dressing
Wound-healing
Wound care after surgery is critical for your health. Performing regular self-checks, especially in hard-to-see places, may help prevent infection and serious complications.
Wound-healing services include:
- Advanced wound dressings
- Bio-engineered skin substitutes
- Compression therapies
- Epidermal autografting
- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (see below)
- Negative pressure vacuum therapy
- Weekly debridement of devitalized tissue or biofilms
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
A hyperbaric chamber is a sealed environment that delivers oxygen-rich therapy to promote wound healing. During hyperbaric oxygen therapy, concentrated oxygen quickly increases in your bloodstream and helps heal the wound from the inside out. This painless therapy is used to treat multiple conditions, in addition to diabetic foot ulcers and slow-healing wounds. When hyperbaric oxygen therapy is recommended, our care team takes the time to answer your questions.
Hyperbaric chamber for other conditions
Our wound care doctors use hyperbaric oxygen therapy to treat many adult health conditions, including:
- Severe anemia
- Air bubbles in blood vessels (arterial gas embolism)
- Burns, including radiation injury
- Carbon monoxide poisoning
- Crush injury to skin or bone
- Decompression sickness
- Diabetic foot ulcers
- Venous leg ulcers
- Gangrene
- Skin infections
- Sudden hearing or vision loss
- Traumatic brain injury or brain abscess
We also show you how to improve your wound-cleaning hygiene at home as part of a personalized recovery plan. Slow-healing wounds can be frustrating, but we will help you get better. Our goal is to help prevent rehospitalization for infection or wound-healing complications.