Joycelyn A. Atchison, MD is a pediatric endocrinologist.
Claudette Lapage Poole, MD is a pediatric infectious diseases practitioner who practices pediatric infectious diseases medicine and pediatrics.
Randall Q. Cron, MD is a pediatric rheumatologist who practices pediatric rheumatology and pediatrics.
Daniel Reiff, MD is a pediatric rheumatologist who practices pediatric rheumatology and pediatrics.
Salman Rashid, MD is a neurologist with special qualifications in child / pediatric neurology.
Emily C. Collum, DPT is a physical therapist.
Hilary L. Haines, MD is a pediatric hematologist-oncologist who practices pediatric hematology-oncology and pediatrics.
Laura H. Patterson, AuD is an audiologist.
Michael B. Guffey, MD is a pediatric infectious diseases practitioner.
Jason A. Wicker, MD, PhD is a hematologist - pathologist.
Thomas S. Poore, MD is a pediatric pulmonologist.
Amanda D. Soong, MD is a pediatrician.
Frank A. Franklin, MD is a pediatric gastroenterologist.
Michael E. Seifert, MD is a pediatric nephrologist who practices pediatric nephrology and pediatrics.
Elizabeth S. Norris, AuD is an audiologist.
Marsha Sturdevant, MD is an adolescent medicine pediatrician.
Melissa L. Peters, MD is an emergency pediatrician who practices emergency pediatrics, emergency medicine, and pediatrics.
Ariana S. Barkley, MD is a neurosurgeon who practices neurosurgery and student in an organized health care education/training program.
William Britt, MD is a pediatric infectious diseases practitioner.
Lauren K. B. Nassetta, MD is a hospital medicine doctor / hospitalist who practices hospital medicine and pediatrics.
Allyson F. Brown, MD is a pediatric pulmonologist who practices pediatric pulmonology and pediatrics.
Isabel L. Virella-Lowell, MD is a pediatric pulmonologist who practices pediatric pulmonology and pediatrics.
Shaundra L. H. Blakemore, MD is a pediatrician.
Mark D. Baker, MD is an emergency pediatrician who practices emergency pediatrics, emergency medicine, and pediatrics.
Rachel E. Wilkinson, AuD is an audiologist.
John M. Bridges, MD is a pediatrician.
Teresa G. Magruder, MD is a pediatrician.
Paul S. Scalici, Jr., MD is a hospital medicine doctor / hospitalist who practices hospital medicine and pediatrics.
Ryne C. Simpson, MD is a pediatric pulmonologist who practices pediatric pulmonology, pediatrics, and student in an organized health care education/training program.
Susan C. Hutto, MD is a pediatric infectious diseases practitioner.
Marines Castillo Echevarria, MD is a pediatric endocrinologist who practices pediatric endocrinology and pediatrics.
Cassandra R. Newsom, PsyD is a clinical psychologist who practices clinical psychology, clinical child & adolescent psychology, neuropsychology, and intellectual & developmental disabilities psychology.
Emily F. Goodwin, MD is a pediatrician.
Christopher J. Guion, MD is a pediatric radiologist.
Kimberly F. Whelan, MD is a pediatric hematologist-oncologist.
Jeffrey D. Lebensburger, DO is a pediatric hematologist-oncologist who practices pediatric hematology-oncology and pediatrics.
Thomas H. Howard, MD is a pediatric hematologist-oncologist.
Meagan S. Crowell, DPT is a physical therapist.
Charles L. Torgerson, II, MD is a pediatric radiologist.
Guillermo J. Beltran Ale, MD is a pediatric pulmonologist who practices pediatric pulmonology and pediatrics.
Irene O. Gamra, MD, MPH is a pediatric gastroenterologist who practices pediatric gastroenterology and pediatrics.
Alicia C. Webb, MD is a pediatrician.
Meenu Sharma, DO is a hospital medicine doctor / hospitalist who practices hospital medicine and pediatrics.
Margaret K. Winkler, MD is a pediatric critical care practitioner.
Monisha Goyal, MD is a neurologist with special qualifications in child / pediatric neurology who practices pediatric neurology, clinical neurophysiology, and neurodevelopmental disabilities pediatrics.
Carin R. Kiser, MD is a pediatrician.
Vignesh H. Nayak, MD is a pediatrician.
Grant M. Imbrock, MD is an emergency pediatrician who practices emergency pediatrics and pediatrics.
Alexandria L. Broadnax, MD is a pediatric hematologist-oncologist who practices pediatric hematology-oncology and pediatrics.
Shannon A. Ross, MD is a pediatric infectious diseases practitioner.
Abigail G. Martin, MD is a pediatrician.
Rebecca A. Stefanek, AuD is an audiologist.
Hollea Ryan, AuD, PhD is an audiologist.
Christopher C. Barnett, MD is a pediatric hematologist-oncologist who practices pediatric hematology-oncology and pediatrics.
Candice C. Dye, MD is a pediatrician.
David P. Galloway, MD is a pediatrician.
Kara S. Huls, MD is an emergency pediatrician who practices emergency pediatrics and pediatrics.
Debra P. Bruns, PhD, PMHNP-BC is a psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioner.
Vida K. Laudarji, MD is a pediatrician.
William F. Tenney, MD is a pediatric nephrologist.
Mary F. Graham, DPT, PT is a physical therapist.
Hector H. Gutierrez, MD is a pediatric pulmonologist who practices pediatric pulmonology and pediatrics.
Tony Hwangpo, PharmD is a pharmacist.
Frederick D. Goldman, MD is a pediatric hematologist-oncologist who practices pediatric hematology-oncology and pediatrics.
Sandhya Kharbanda, MD is a pediatric hematologist-oncologist.
Audra T. Henegan, DPT is a physical therapist.
Raymond K. Lyrene, MD is a pediatric pulmonologist.
Karen Mccarty, CRNP is a pediatric nurse practitioner.
Laura K. Metrock, MD is a pediatric hematologist-oncologist.
Richard S. Sweitzer, EdD is an audiologist.
Kathy W. Monroe, MD is an emergency pediatrician who practices emergency pediatrics, emergency medicine, and pediatrics.
Janemarie F. Freeman, MD is a pediatric allergist & immunologist who practices pediatric allergy & immunology, allergy & immunology, and pediatrics.
Rahmath K. Althaf, DO is a pediatric gastroenterologist who practices pediatric gastroenterology and pediatrics.
Todd M. Cooper, DO is a pediatric hematologist-oncologist.
Kathleen W. Wallace, AuD is an audiologist.
Jeremy M. Loberger, MD is a pediatric critical care practitioner who practices pediatric critical care medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, and primary care medicine.
Santiago Borasino, MD is a pediatric critical care practitioner.
Blake A. Cochran, DNP, CRNA is a nurse anesthesiologist.
Erin E. Blodgett, PharmD is a pharmacist.
Erin E. Flemming, AuD is an audiologist.
Ryan M. Flaherty, DO is a hospital medicine doctor / hospitalist who practices hospital medicine and pediatrics.
David J. Askenazi, MD is a pediatric nephrologist who practices pediatric nephrology, emergency medicine, and pediatrics.
Sandeep K. Gupta, MD is a pediatric gastroenterologist.
Jonathan A. Knott, DPT is a pediatric physical therapist.
Emily L. R. Nolte, MD is a pediatrician who practices pediatrics and emergency pediatrics.
Lindsey E. Hastings, MD is a pediatric infectious diseases practitioner who practices pediatric infectious diseases medicine, primary care medicine, internal medicine, and pediatrics.
Eric J. Howell, MD is a pediatric radiologist.
Emily Gantz, DO is a neurologist with special qualifications in child / pediatric neurology.
Heather M. Relyea Ashley, MD is a pediatrician who practices pediatrics, internal medicine, and primary care medicine.
William L. Burton, MD is a pediatric critical care practitioner who practices pediatric critical care medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, and primary care medicine.
Tony M. McGrath, MD is a neurologist with special qualifications in child / pediatric neurology.
Aaron E. Fan, MD, PhD is a pediatric hematologist-oncologist who practices pediatric hematology-oncology and pediatrics.
Sheetal S. Phadnis, MD is a pediatric hematologist-oncologist who practices pediatric hematology-oncology and pediatrics.
Nancy M. Tofil, MD is a pediatric critical care practitioner.
Kimberlly L. Stringer, MD is a developmental - behavioral pediatrician who practices developmental - behavioral pediatrics and pediatrics.
Sophia Artusa, DPT, PT is a physical therapist.
Giovanna C. Beauchamp, MD is a pediatric endocrinologist.
Krisztina Harsanyi-Jilling, MD is a neurologist with special qualifications in child / pediatric neurology who practices pediatric neurology and pediatrics.
Robert P. Castleberry, MD is a pediatric hematologist-oncologist.
Robert P. Nuttall, MD is a pediatric radiologist.

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The Children's Hospital Of Alabama - I/P Psych Unit has been registered with the National Provider Identifier database since September 21, 2006 and its NPI numbers are 1689772683 (certified on 09/21/2006) and 1487096475. The Children's Hospital Of Alabama - I/P Psych Unit is also known as University Of Alabama Health Services Foundation (Children's General Acute Care Hospital).

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Psychiatric Hospital Unit

In general, a distinct unit of a hospital that provides acute or long-term care to emotionally disturbed patients, including patients admitted for diagnosis and those admitted for treatment of psychiatric problems on the basis of physicians' orders and approved nursing care plans. Long-term care may include intensive supervision to the chronically mentally ill, mentally disordered or other mentally incompetent persons; (2) For Medicare, a distinct part of a general acute care hospital admitting only patients whose admission to the unit is required for active treatment, whose treatment is of an intensity that can be provided only in an inpatient hospital setting, and whose condition is described by a psychiatric principal diagnosis contained in the Third Edition of the American Psychiatric Association Diagnostic and Statistical Manual or in Chapter 5 (Mental Disorders) of the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM). The unit must furnish, through the use of qualified personnel, psychological services, social work services, psychiatric nursing, occupational therapy, and recreational therapy. The unit must maintain medical records that permit determination of the degree and intensity of treatment provided to individuals who are furnished services in the unit; the unit must meet special staff requirements in that the unit must have adequate numbers of qualified professional and supportive staff to evaluate inpatients, formulate written, individualized, comprehensive treatment plans, provide active treatment measures and engage in discharge planning.

Psychiatric Hospital Units in Smithfield, Birmingham, AL