Governor Ivey Helps Cut Ribbon for Wellstone’s New $10 Million Mental Health Facility

It was a packed house on Monday as seven state legislators, one governor, several news cameras and dozens of citizens from all over north Alabama gathered at the Wellstone campus on Memorial Parkway. Wellstone CEO Jeremy Blair was joined by Gov. Kay Ivey and the state’s Mental Health Commissioner Kim Boswell as they cut the […]

Huntsville Hospital Health System Ranked Among America’s Best Employers by Forbes

HUNTSVILLE, AL – Huntsville Hospital Health System is one of only two North Alabama-based  companies ranked among the nation’s best employers by Forbes.  For its America’s Best Employers by State 2022 rankings, Forbes partnered with market research company Statista to survey 70,000 Americans working for businesses with at least 500 employees. The surveys were conducted anonymously, […]

Huntsville’s Free Dental Clinic Seeking Funds to Keep Helping Patients

Huntsville’s Community Free Dental Clinic held a press conference on Tuesday to remind city officials how important their work is within the community and stressed the need for continued funding from the city’s budget.  The Community Free Dental Clinic opened in 2013 and is the only organization of its kind, providing free dental services to […]

Liz Hurley Ribbon Run Back In Person For 2022

Huntsville Hospital Foundation’s Liz Hurley Ribbon Run is back in person to run for the future. Registration is now open for the 19th annual 5K and Survivors’ Walk taking place Saturday, Oct. 15, throughout downtown Huntsville. This is the first time in three years that the Ribbon Run has been held in person, after two straight virtual races […]

Local, national hospitals deal with staffing shortages amid rising COVID numbers

A recent challenge for hospitals across Alabama, along with the rest of the nation, has been staffing. Dr. Don Williamson, with the Alabama Hospital Association explained in a recent interview that less health care professionals are working now than during the omicron and delta spikes. “We might have substantially greater difficulty dealing with 1,500 people […]

WellStone announces mental health hiring event

HUNTSVILLE, AL – Do you want to be a part of building better access to mental healthcare across our state? Quality mental healthcare workers play a vital role in achieving this reality. WellStone, North Alabama’s nonprofit mental health center, is hosting a job fair on Friday, July  22, from 9am –4pm in hopes of filling […]

Hometown Lenders Donates $500,000 to Huntsville Hospital for Women & Children Pediatric Unit Upgrade

Thanks to a $500,000 donation from Hometown Lenders, the Huntsville Hospital Foundation recently announced that it will fund a full renovation of the Pediatric unit at Huntsville Hospital for Women & Children. Not only is this one of the largest outright one-time corporate contributions in the Foundation’s history, but it will also be the first […]

A Work in Progress: WellStone’s New Crisis Diversion Center

There are two places that a person in the throes of a mental health crisis might find themselves. The local hospital emergency room or jail. Neither one is a truly workable option, both are often overcapacity and understaffed. For someone in crisis, they become drop off destinations of last resort.  Statistics have shown that one […]

Huntsville Hospital Foundation Launches “MyHospital” Campaign to Celebrate Madison Hospital’s 10th Anniversary

Since opening its doors on February 28, 2012, Madison Hospital has provided the Madison community with access to world-class, lifesaving healthcare that’s closer to home. 10 years later, the hospital is nearly bursting at the seams and ready for future expansion. To celebrate this milestone and to help raise funds for equipment and facility upgrades, […]

COVID Update: Vaccination Talks and Declining Case Numbers

As skepticism of COVID-19 vaccines continue to keep a large portion of the country’s population from taking the shots, Dr. Roger Smalligan, regional dean at the UAB Huntsville Regional Medical Campus, said he understood the apprehension. He, too, hesitated to take one of the vaccines before he did his research and decided it was the […]