West Alabama’s largest hospital starting shuttle service while new parking deck is constructed

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (WBRC) – DCH Regional Medical Center will begin providing its own shuttle service Wednesday after using money donated to the DCH Foundation to pay for the two shuttles, affectionately called “shuttle bugs.”

One of the new shuttles is red and black while the other is yellow and black. They’re wrapped to resemble a lady bug and a bumble bee, thus the nickname shuttle bugs.

Each shuttle can carry as many as six people.

“We have the guest service team staffing the shuttles,” said Mallary Myers, Senior Vice President and COO for DCH. “They’re driving around, actively available to pick up patients, visitors, and team members.”

Parking at the DCH campus has been disrupted during the construction of a new parking deck.

The shuttles will serve people who must park in parking lots farther away from the hospital’s entrances due to the construction.

“I love the shuttle service because I wear high heels and it saved me today because I was parked way in the far end,” Ottia Phillips said.

Shuttles will run routes to all parking lots on the Regional Medical Center campus.

Drop off locations include the north and south entrances of the hospital, the Outpatient Center lobby entrance, and the Manderson Cancer Center.

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