Father/Son Donations Honor Bruno Cancer Center
A father/son duo recently expressed gratitude for life-saving treatment rendered to the son at the Bruno Cancer Center with separate gifts to UAB St. Vincent’s Foundation. The donations were directed to the radiation oncology department. “It was just a token of our appreciation to St. Vincent’s,” said John Blackwell, the father of 42-year-old Austin Blackwell. […]
One NICU Family Donates to Benefit Others
The arrival of Samuel “Sam” Hinton on September 19, 2019, was a big surprise to his parents, Tyler and Jessica Hinton. Not that they weren’t expecting him. They just didn’t expect him to arrive quite so soon. Born at UAB St. Vincent’s Birmingham two months ahead of schedule, Sam spent the first six weeks of […]
Expansion of Behavioral Health Unit Provides Older Patients with Continuity of Care
A small shift is set to occur at UAB St. Vincent’s East that can make a big difference in the lives of older patients. Six beds in the adult behavioral health unit will be converted to geriatric beds to meet the rising need for treatment of neurocognitive disorders in older individuals. This, according to Suzannah […]
Why One Physician Gives: Supporting Others Makes Lives Better, Souls Brighter
Third-generation physician Susan Salter, MD, a radiation oncologist at UAB St. Vincent’s Birmingham Bruno Cancer Center, is a giving person by nature. As a physician, she spends countless hours tending to her patients; as a wife and mother, she devotes herself to caring for her family. She also strives for greater good as a church […]
Grateful Hearts Give: How Comfort and Care Eased a Family’s Sorrow
On September 7, 2022, Caroline McClain learned during a routine 20-week ultrasound that the baby, whose arrival she and husband Jason were happily anticipating in the coming year, had no heartbeat. “It was a complete and total shock after a healthy pregnancy thus far,” McClain, former executive director of the Forge Breast Cancer Survivor Center, […]
Why We Give: St. Vincent’s Shows the Love of Jesus
Rebecca DiPiazza thought she knew St. Vincent’s. After all, she was project director for a St. Vincent’s Foundation-initiated breast cancer survivor program. She serves as Foundation Junior Board chair. She and her husband, Trey Hamer, included the Foundation in their wills and funded NICU cameras. DiPiazza, a cancer survivor, knows the Foundation’s influence extends through […]
Why I Volunteer: Ruth White’s Time-Talent-Treasure Mission Investment
When Ruth White retired as director of the St. Vincent’s Birmingham Emergency Department last year, she thought she had closed her 41-year chapter of “serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable.” However, after being asked to serve as a hospital volunteer, she remembered how her personal and professional goals […]
Ministry Expansion: Donors Help Fund St. Vincent’s First Freestanding Emergency Department
When the world shut down in March 2020, hospital emergency departments became more essential than ever. While the emergency department (ED) at UAB St. Vincent’s East has always played a vital community role, the pandemic posed significant challenges. More than two years later, those challenges continue. “Since the beginning of the pandemic we have seen […]
Jeremiah’s Hope Expanded to Jefferson State Community College
In March 2020, COVID shuttered the restaurant where Kayla Hollon waited tables. Soon she couldn’t pay her mortgage. Buying groceries for her eight-year-old son became a challenge. Today, thanks to UAB St. Vincent’s Foundation-funded Jeremiah’s Hope medical jobs training program, Hollon is an St. Vincent’s certified clinical medical assistant. Working alongside a nurse practitioner at […]
Why We Give: Wadsworths’ Endowment Supports Chilton County “Family”
Jim Wadsworth remembers the moment he heard St. Vincent’s might build a hospital in Clanton. “I thought that would be a home run,” says Jim, who owned Clanton-based Wadsworth Oil Company before his 2020 retirement. “I knew I wanted to support that effort. Since 2016, St. Vincent’s has been the best thing that ever happened […]