Cooper Green Mercy Hospital

Cooper Green Mercy Health Services
Geography
Location 1515 6th Avenue South, Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Coordinates 33°30′12″N 86°48′23″W / 33.50333°N 86.80639°W / 33.50333; -86.80639Coordinates: 33°30′12″N 86°48′23″W / 33.50333°N 86.80639°W / 33.50333; -86.80639
Organization
Hospital type General
Services
Beds 319
History
Founded 1972
Links
Website www.coopergreen.org
Lists Hospitals in Alabama

Cooper Green Mercy Health Services is owned by Jefferson County, Alabama. It first opened as Mercy Hospital in 1972 and was renamed for former Birmingham mayor Cooper Green three years later. It is located at 1515 6th Avenue South, adjacent to UAB Hospital on Birmingham's Southside. The hospital closed its inpatient beds on December 31, 2012, and transitioned to a multi-specialty outpatient clinic. The clinic offers both primary and specialty care, behavioral health, and urgent care. In addition, it has an onsite pharmacy, radiology, and clinical laboratory. The clinic's executive director is Roger McCullough, appointed as Interim in 2014.The clinic continues to offer healthcare to the citizens of Jefferson County regardless of their ability to pay.

Funding for indigent care was established by the Alabama Legislature in 1965, using revenues collected from county sales and liquor taxes. As a county hospital, Cooper Green Mercy provides health-care services to all Jefferson County residents with fees based on family size and income. In addition to staff physicians, the hospital coordinates with UAB Hospital as a training site for medical residents and to provide patients with diagnostic tests and procedures outside of Cooper Green Mercy's capabilities.

From October 2005 to March 2008 the hospital underwent a $28 million program of extensive renovations and modernization of systems, focusing on patient care rooms and public areas of the hospital. Brasfield & Gorrie was general contractor for the project.

In May 2009 Birmingham mayor Larry Langford suggested that the city of Birmingham take over operation of the hospital, predicting that the county would try to shut it down amid cost-cutting measures in the wake of a massive debt crisis.

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