Living in Montgomery

Montgomery area hospitals offer comprehensive medical services and facilities, as well as cutting-edge specialty services and practices. Montgomery residents have access to neonatal intensive care, open-heart surgical and cardiac treatment facilities and physicians, rehabilitative and therapeutic orthopedic medicine, cancer treatment centers, and more. Additionally, there are many walk-in clinics that offer general medicine, and private practice physician offices with services ranging from family practice to internal medicine and ophthalmology. Montgomery and surrounding area Veterans also are served by the VA Medical Center.

Additionally, active duty and retired military personnel may take advantage of a new, state-of-the-art ambulatory care clinic at Maxwell Air Force Base. The Maxwell AFB Clinic changed from a hospital to a clinic on 1 Jul 99. This facility now functions as an ambulatory healthcare center. Only outpatient services are provided and this facility does not provide emergency room services. In essence this facility provides primary care with limited specialty care to an estimated beneficiary population of 38,000. Primary care services include Family Practice, Pediatrics, Flight Medicine and Internal Medicine. Additional patient care services provided are Same Day Surgery, Ear, Nose and Throat, Orthopedics, General Surgery, Life Skills, Optometry, Ophthalmology, Active Duty Dental, Women's Health, and Physical Therapy. Maxwell has contracted with Haynes Ambulance Paramedics of Alabama, Inc., operates directly from the clinic for emergency response. Please access this web site for more information on medical services for Maxwell/Gunter personnel and families: http://www.maxwell.af.mil/msd/newcomer/healthcare/healthcare.htm.

HOSPITALS

Baptist Medical Center South 2105 E. South Boulevard Montgomery, AL 36116 (334) 288-2100 www.baptistfirst.org Baptist Medical Center East 400 Taylor Road Montgomery, AL 36117 (334) 277-8330 www.baptistfirst.org Jackson Hospital 1725 Pine Street Montgomery, AL 36106 (334) 293-8888 www.jackson.org VA Medical Center 215 Perry Hill Road Montgomery, AL 36109 (334) 272-4670