When you need medical care right away, emergency care and urgent care is close to home. The UAB St. Vincent’s emergency care team is here 24/7 for life-threatening and severe illness and injury.
If it’s not an emergency but you still need to be seen right away, you’ll get the same level of compassionate care at our urgent care clinics and during in-person or online visits with a care provider.
24/7 emergency care
Acting quickly to get someone to the nearest emergency room (ER) can save their life. The doctors, nurses, and support staff in our ERs work quickly to understand your condition and provide care that’s right for you. Also, our 24/7 emergency care team is specially trained to care for children and their specific needs.
Call 911 or go immediately to an ER if you or a family member has any of these conditions:
- Chest pain
- Coughing up or vomiting blood
- Fainting
- Major head injury or trauma
- Numbness/weakness on one side of the body
- Open bone fracture
- Pregnancy labor pains
- Severe allergic reaction
- Severe bleeding
- Severe burns
- Severe shortness of breath
- Severe skin infections or complicated abscesses
- Sudden abdominal pain (moderate to severe)
- Sudden back pain (severe)
- Sudden or unexplained weakness, difficulty speaking or walking, numbness, or loss of consciousness
Urgent care
If you need care quickly and unexpectedly but it’s not quite an emergency, visit one of our urgent care clinics. Patients may check in online or simply walk in. If you need more advanced care, your care team will connect you with specialist and other care services.
Urgent care is ideal for conditions such as:
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