About Us

The Birmingham areas only freestanding, full-service psychiatric hospital, Hill Crest draws from a rich tradition while staying on the cutting edge of new developments in treating psychiatric illnesses and while enhancing mental health.

The Facility and Programs

Hill Crest Behavioral Health Services, an operating unit of parent company Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS), has a history as a medical institution dedicated to mental health for more than seven decades. Hill Crest is a fully licensed, psychiatric and residential treatment facility which operates out of a three-story, 88,000 square-foot hospital complex. The medical staff manage separate programs in adult, adolescent, and child psychiatry, adolescent residential treatment programs, and intensive adolescent therapeutic group homes located in Jefferson County Alabama.