Health Care
Access to high quality medical care is yet another leading characteristic of the Auburn-Opelika community. The area is replete with physicians and clinics offering care in everything from optometry and dentistry to chiropractic, family medicine and surgery.
The vast collection of healthcare resources in Auburn-Opelika is anchored by one of the region’s leading medical resources – East Alabama Medical Center. Serving a five-county area in east central Alabama, the 340-bed EAMC stands as a regional referral center equipped with more than 2,600 employees and 150 physicians on staff – establishing the hospital among the area’s largest employers.In the last six decades, the hospital has grown tremendously, experiencing a number of significant modernization and expansion initiatives. The hospital offers complete medical and surgical services on both an inpatient and outpatient basis in a comfortable, state-of-the-art environment. It has continually been recognized for its quality care on both the state and national level.
On average, more than 100,000 patients a year utilize the health care services, programs and facilities at EAMC. In addition, each year, around 320 open-heart surgeries are performed and approximately 17,000 surgical procedures are successfully conducted at the medical center.
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