A major expansion is underway at USA Health System’s medical campus in midtown Mobile, where crews have spent recent weeks pouring concrete and running utility lines for a new physicians building that will significantly expand outpatient care options for families across the region.
The new facility rises directly across from USA Children’s & Women’s Hospital and, once finished, will house 153 exam rooms along with 16 dedicated nurses’ stations and seven conference rooms set aside for medical education and training. The scale of the project reflects how much the health system’s outpatient practice has grown in recent years.
According to Becky S. Tate, who oversees ambulatory services and network development for USA Health System, the building is designed to consolidate a wide range of specialty care under one roof. She said a substantial share of the USA Physicians Group’s clinical operations — including general pediatrics, pediatric subspecialties, obstetrics and gynecology, orthopaedics and orthopaedic rehabilitation, and neurosciences — will relocate to the new site once construction wraps up.
The move will also bring ancillary services closer to patients who currently have to travel between multiple buildings for testing, follow-up visits and specialty referrals.
Perhaps the most notable addition tucked into the new building is a breast and mammography center that will work in tandem with the Mitchell Cancer Institute, providing oncology care to patients whose treatment often requires coordination across several departments. Housing those services near existing children’s and women’s care means patients dealing with a cancer diagnosis, along with the families supporting them, will not have to travel as far across the medical campus for appointments.
For neighbors and commuters who pass the Children’s & Women’s Hospital corridor, the construction has been hard to miss, with heavy equipment and reddish dirt piled along the site for months. Project leaders have documented the building’s progress with periodic video updates, giving the public a look at how the structure has taken shape from foundation work through framing.
No firm completion date has been announced, but the project represents one of the more visible healthcare investments in Mobile in recent years, adding capacity for a hospital system that already serves as a regional referral center for South Alabama families seeking specialized pediatric, women’s and cancer care.