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Jefferson Health System
Birmingham, Alabama

"Engaging girls and women in a system of care that is meaningful and relevant to the complexity of their lives."

Center Highlights:

The Jefferson Health System Community Center of Excellence in Women's Health is known as Women's Health Link by the local community. Women's Health Link is a consortium of leading public sector health care providers and community based organizations in the greater Birmingham area with the capacity and commitment to integrate, coordinate and strengthen health services and activities for underserved women in Jefferson County, Alabama. The goal of the program is to streamline patient care and to extend health services to accommodate women throughout their life span.

"The Jefferson Health System is leveraging relationships between partners, schools and community providers to extend the impact of its work through research; training for lay individuals and health professionals; promotion of health careers, internships, scholarships for young women; and the development of new organizations to address unmet needs of the community."

Women's Health Link plans to improve the health and quality of life for underserved women in Jefferson County through the coordination of health care services and the implementation of evidence based interventions to improve the delivery of health services.

To learn more about this CCOE, visit their web site at www.womenshealthlink.net.

Jefferson Health System
Rowell S. Ashford, II, MD
1515 6th Avenue South, Room 655
Birmingham, AL 35233
Phone: (205) 930-3310 or 3292
Fax: (205) 933-2905
E-Mail: ashford@jcc.co.jefferson.al.us or
ashrow@jccal.org
Clinical Services Contact: (205) 918-2364

Current as of May 2005