Mike West may be the only person you’ll ever meet who owes his career to a tornado outbreak. Rewind to April 3, 1974 – one of the most infamous weather events in U.S. history. A powerful storm system roared across the country that day, spawning nearly 150 twisters that killed 319 people. Limestone County’s Tanner community […]

Thirteen new Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) have completed HEMSI’s rigorous 10-week EMS Academy, made official by a graduation ceremony on Thursday, Nov. 21. This diverse group is now ready to join the frontlines responding to medical emergency calls across Madison County. HEMSI’s hands-on EMS Academy is a unique “earn-as-you-learn” workforce development program that helps fill […]

Huntsville Hospital is adding 154,000 square feet of new clinical space to better serve patients in the Rocket City and its fast-growing suburbs. On Nov. 20, the Alabama Certificate of Need Review Board unanimously approved a five-story addition to the hospital’s Madison Street Tower.  “Expanding the Madison Street Tower will give us the space to […]