Children's of Alabama Named to Newsweek's America's Greatest Workplaces and America's Greatest Workplaces in Healthcare 2025

Newsweek and Plant-A Insights Group named Children’s of Alabama among “America’s Greatest Workplaces” and “America’s Greatest Workplaces in Healthcare” for 2025. These awards recognize Children’s impact and commitment to the wellness and growth of their employees. This recognition builds on Children’s of Alabama’s list of 2025 accolades, which includes being named one of Newsweek’s “America’s Greatest Workplaces for Women.”

More than 250,000 U.S. employees were interviewed for the ranking. The survey covered topics like compensation and benefits, training and career progression, work-life balance, and company culture. 

Children's of Alabama Community Health Needs Assessment

Children's of Alabama produces a community health needs assessment to identify issues and prioritize our efforts. This needs assessment reviews existing public health data on key pediatric issues and identifies existing programs and resources in the community that are working to address issues in child health. The information we receive from the assessment determine areas where we will lead and who we will partner with to address what the community tells us is important to pediatric health and well-being.

The 2025 survey is up and running, and we want and need your input to help develop our next plan. Your thoughts and feedback are critical to guiding our efforts. Please help us with this important process by clicking the link below to take the survey.

Pediatric ENT Associates Now Offering Nurse Practitioner Clinics

Pediatric ENT Associates is now offering nurse practitioner clinics for children without complex health conditions. Please send referrals through EpicCare Link or fax to 205-638-2223. Once the referral has been processed, a representative from the office will contact the family to schedule the appointment.

Children's Imaging Center Update

The PIC - Pediatric Imaging Center at Children’s South will temporarily not be performing contrast exams during the months of July and August. They will resume performing contrast exams in September. The office will continue performing all other exams, including sedation services and sedation contrast exams during July and August.

June 2025 ToxUpdate

Visit the link below to view the Alabama Poison Information Center's June 2025 E-newsletter.

Children's of Alabama Dialysis Selected for 2025 Tweety Lasker Award

The Dialysis Clinic at Children’s of Alabama has been selected as the recipient of the 2025 Tweety Lasker Award. This honor is presented annually by Hand in Paw to recognize an outstanding program partner for their exceptional efforts in bringing Animal-Assisted Therapy to their community.

Established in 2007 by Dr. Jim and Katie Lasker in memory of their beloved greyhound, Tweety, this award recognizes organizations that have partnered with Hand in Paw to serve the community with excellence. This marks Children’s of Alabama's fourth time receiving the honor, having previously been recognized in 2007 (hospital overall), 2017 (Outpatient Clinic), and 2018 (Occupational & Physical Therapy).

Children's of Alabama's Newest MD (Medical Dog) Reporting for Duty

Meet Sydney, MD (Medical Dog), the newest addition to the Children's of Alabama's PetsRX team!

Sydney was raised at Canine Assistants where she learned how to be a companion to pediatric patients and their families in the hospital setting. She works alongside her handlers, Julianna, Katie, and Mary, child life specialists in our hematology/oncology department. Together, they will support patients and families, helping them cope with their healthcare journey.

Thank you to Nucor for their generosity and support in sponsoring Sydney!

Nemours® KidsHealth® Available as a Resource to Share with Families

Children’s of Alabama partners with Nemours® KidsHealth® as a trustworthy resource to provide families with dependable information on hundreds of children’s health topics. The Children’s of Alabama (COA) KidsHealth® website offers doctor-reviewed advice on physical, emotional, and behavioral topics by providing easy-to-follow videos, articles, animations and print publications.

Medical professionals, parents, teens, and kids can find a range of content tailored to the health concerns, needs, and interests of a wide range of conditions and challenges. Visit the KidsHealth link to access information for thousands of topics to provide information to support our medical care, instructions, and education.

Live Accredited Continuing Education Opportunities

Visit the link below for live Accredited Continuing Education opportunities,

updated weekly with registration links for Grand Rounds.

2023-2025 Directory of Pediatric Services

Check Out the Latest PedsCast

The Children’s of Alabama PedsCast is a pediatric sub-specialist peer-to-peer podcast focused on research, innovative programs and advances in pediatric health care at Children’s of Alabama. Featured speakers include physicians, surgeons, clinical specialists and other experts in the field of pediatrics.

Click the link below to hear our PedsCast episodes.

Children's Epic EMR

Epic is now live at Children's of Alabama! This new electronic medical record (EMR) platform aims to help improve the care of our patients, their families experience and the day-to-day work operations of our employees and providers.

As we adjust to this transition, we want to ensure that referring offices are receiving all patient notes, discharge summaries and other information needed.

Please submit any issues you may be experiencing and we will work to resolve them as quickly as possible.

Fax FYIs

Please make note

of the below fax number updates!

Nephrology: 205-638-2517

Department of Surgery: 205-638-2513

Pediatrics East: 205-638-7102

Sports Medicine: 205-638-2879

*Sports Medicine Phone Number Change: 205-638-6921