Health Care

Birmingham city leaders and representatives of Christ Health and The Salvation Army in construction attire use shovels to break ground at the clinic's construction site.

Salvation Army and Christ Health Center break ground on a new health clinic in North Birmingham

Vahini Shori

The planned clinic in the Acipco-Finley neighborhood, which is backed by the two faith-based organizations, will provide basic medical services and spiritual support.

Reverend Paul Eknes-Tucker, Senior Pastor of Pilgrim Church stands among chairs in the sanctuary smiling and holding up a bottle of Narcan, nasal spray.

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Faith communities step up to fight the opioid crisis in Birmingham

Vahini Shori

A program backed by the Clinton Foundation offers formal training to clergy and others to address opioid overdoses in their communities.

Keisha Taylor, a UAB clinical research coordinator, takes Laura Dudley's blood pressure as part of a Mobile Wellness clinic event held in conjunction with the Titusville Senior Wellness Expo.

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Living HealthSmart in Alabama is getting easier thanks to a growing UAB initiative

Olivia McMurrey

One of Laura Dudley’s last stops at the Senior Wellness Expo, held at Sixth Avenue Baptist Church in Birmingham’s Titusville neighborhood, was the Live HealthSmart Alabama Mobile Wellness clinic. She chatted with Keisha Taylor, who checked her vital signs.