State’s only juvenile arthritis clinic helps our kids

Thanks to support from all around our community, children who face juvenile arthritis can get high quality care right here at home.
Since its creation in 2007 through a critical partnership between UAB and Children’s Hospital, the Alabama Clinic for Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatic Diseases has helped more than 1,000 boys and girls receive appropriate diagnosis [...]

Community health gets boost with $133,000 in grants

The Community Foundation and the Jefferson County Department of Health are powerful partners. Add to the team the other 60 or so organizations that make up the Health Action Partnership, all doing whatever they can to follow “Our Community Roadmap to Health” and make the people of Jefferson County as healthy as they can be.
The [...]

Health plan guarantees results, if we work together

If you’ve ever picked up a self-help book from the shelf, particularly one of those that promises miracles from a particular diet, you may be glad to know that our community’s plan for health comes from a much more reliable source — the community itself.
In developing the strategic document called “Our Community Roadmap to [...]

UAB Hospital programs make list of ‘bests’

The dynamic medical and economic engine known as UAB once again puts us on a list of bests, this time with eight UAB Hospital specialty programs making the list published by U.S. News & World Report.
It’s great to have bragging rights, for example, that the UAB Hospital rheumatology program ranks eighth out of programs offered [...]

Green, eggs and ham — great start to the day

So it’s been a busy week in Lake Wobegon, er, Birmingham, starting with the 50th anniversary annual meeting of the Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham. So many people, all kinds, sizes, ages, places – all celebrating the accomplishments of this public endowment and experiencing together 50 Ways to Love Our Community at the reception that [...]

Congratulations to future health leaders

Sometimes the connections made by the Community Foundation link individuals to opportunities that will help them and the community. That’s the case with the recent selection of 21 winners for the Ladder to Leadership program, which awarded fellowships through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Center for Creative Leadership in nine locations across the [...]