Trinity Medical Center
Trinity Medical Center (originally Baptist Medical Center Montclair) is an affiliate of Community Health Systems of Brentwood, Tennessee. It is currently located on a 120 acre campus at 800 Montclair Road near the intersection of 52nd Street South in Crestline. Vicki Briggs is the hospital's chief executive officer.
The Birmingham Baptist Hospital was founded in West End in 1922. The Montclair Road campus was constructed in 1966 to serve eastern Birmingham and to replace the Highland Avenue Baptist Hospital. Samford Univeristy's Ida V. Moffett School of Nursing, which was founded as the nursing school of Baptist Hospital in West End, has facilities at Trinity.
The hospital has since expanded to include three professional buildings, three parking decks, a cancer treatment center and a newly-renovated women's center for a total of about 1 million square feet of space for 447 beds in service.
In October 2005, Baptist Health System sold a 65% stake in the hospital to Triad Hospitals of Plano, Texas which became a managing partner. The name was changed to Trinity Medical Center in 2006. Triad was sold in July 2007 to Community Health Systems. BHS sold its remaining stake of Trinity in June 2008 for an undisclosed amount.
In 2007 Trinity announced that they were planning to relocate to a more accessible site. Their current plans are to construct a new $315.8 million facility on the site once slated for the Falls at Grants Mill shopping center off I-459 at Grants Mill Road near Irondale. Other sites in Leeds and at Liberty Park were also under consideration. The City of Birmingham requested to work with the hospital to find a site within the city limits, but was unsuccessful.
References
- Velasco, Anna (August 29, 2006) "Hospital working on relocating in Irondale". Birmingham News
- Velasco, Anna (July 22, 2008) "Baptist Health System will seek approval to build and operate a hospital in Hoover." Birmingham News
External links
- Trinity Medical Center web site
- Trinity Medical Center at Baptist Health System