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North Alabama Medical Center Names 2025 Mercy Award Winner
June 18, 2025FLORENCE, Alabama – North Alabama Medical Center has recognized Kyle Roberts as the facility’s 2025 Mercy Award winner. The Mercy Award recognizes one employee from each of Lifepoint Health’s facilities who profoundly touches the lives of others and best represents the spirit and values on which the company was founded.
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NAMC Welcomes Melissa Armstead as New Chief Nursing Officer
June 12, 2025North Alabama Medical Center (NAMC), a part of Lifepoint Health, is thrilled to announce the appointment of Melissa Armstead, MSN, RN, as its new chief nursing officer (CNO) effective June 1, 2025. A native of Muscle Shoals, Melissa brings over 18 years of nursing leadership experience and a deep commitment to patient-centered care to her role.
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North Alabama Medical Center Celebrates Donate Life Month
April 12, 2025North Alabama Medical Center and Legacy of Hope partnered to celebrate National Donate Life Month on Friday, April 11th in the hospital’s main lobby.
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North Alabama Medical Center Welcomes 2025 With New Baby
January 03, 2025After waiting more than 38 hours for the first baby born in 2025, North Alabama Medical Center (NAMC) rang in the new year with its first bundle of joy Thursday afternoon.
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Mike Howard named Market President and CEO of North Alabama Medical Center and North Alabama Shoals Hospital
November 25, 2024FLORENCE, Ala., – North Alabama Medical Center (NAMC) and North Alabama Shoals Hospital (NASH), part of Lifepoint Health, are pleased to announce the appointment of Mike Howard as the new market president and chief executive officer (CEO), effective immediately. Howard, who has been serving as interim CEO since September, brings a deep understanding of the facilities and the community, having previously served as chief operating officer at NAMC from 2015 to 2022.
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NAMC Performs Northwest Alabama’s First Procedure with WATCHMAN FLX Pro
July 30, 2024FLORENCE, Ala., – North Alabama Medical Center (NAMC) recently became the first hospital in Northwest Alabama to offer patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation (AF) an alternative to oral anticoagulation therapy with the WATCHMAN FLX™ Pro Left Atrial Appendage Closure (LAAC) Device. The procedure was performed by Tom McElderry, MD.
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Newborn Meets Great, Great Grandmother at NAMC
July 18, 2024FLORENCE, Ala., – North Alabama Medical Center (NAMC) was the location of a story five generations in the making. Ninety-four year-old Peggy Murphy concluded her recent stay at NAMC by meeting her great, great grandson, John Bradley Turner, who was born on July 11.
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North Alabama Medial Center Completes EP Cardiology Procedure on 700th Patient
June 24, 2024FLORENCE – The Cardiac Catheterization Lab at North Alabama Medical Center reached another milestone on Tuesday, June, 18th, by completing a cardiac electrophysiology (EP) procedure on its 700th Patient.Tom McElderry, Jr., MD, performed a cardiac ablation on NAMC cardiac patient, Vernon Russ.
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North Alabama Medical Center Receives HRSA Platinum Recognition
June 03, 2024FLORENCE, Ala., – North Alabama Medical Center (NAMC) has earned Platinum Recognition from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) for educating and promoting organ donation awareness.
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Check out the 2023 Community Benefit Report
May 20, 2024North Alabama Medical Center and North Alabama Shoals Hospital are proud to serve the Shoals area and thankful for the trust we have from the community to allow us to provide the best possible care. Check out our latest community benefit report to see how we're working to improve how we care for you and our community.
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North Alabama Medical Center Names 2024 Mercy Award Winner
May 06, 2024FLORENCE, Alabama (May 6, 2024) – North Alabama Medical Center has recognized Bethany Tyree as the facility’s 2024 Mercy Award winner. The Mercy Award recognizes one employee from each of Lifepoint Health’s facilities who profoundly touches the lives of others and best represents the spirit and values on which the company was founded.
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North Alabama Medical Center Celebrates Donate Life Month
April 15, 2024FLORENCE, Ala., –North Alabama Medical Center and Legacy of Hope are partnered to celebrate National Donate Life Month on Friday, April 12th in the hospital’s main lobby.
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NAMC Lends Classroom Space to NWSCC for Enhanced Educational Opportunities
April 08, 2024FLORENCE, Ala., –North Alabama Medical Center has agreed to partner with Northwest Shoals Community College to provide over 5,100 square feet of space at its Cloyd Blvd. campus to assists with healthcare education initiatives.
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North Alabama Medical Center Celebrates Leap Day Babies
March 01, 2024FLORENCE, Alabama (Friday, March 1, 2024) –Labor and Delivery staff at North Alabama Medical Center had a busy day on Thursday, February 29 with the most babies born on any Leap Day since 1980 at the facility.
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NAMC Welcomes 2024 With New Baby
January 03, 2024FLORENCE, Ala., – North Alabama Medical Center (NAMC) is ringing in 2024 with one of the first bundles of joy of the year. Weighing six pounds and 11 ounces and measuring 21 inches, Jay’Leigh Faith Southward was born to Danielle Lowery and Devarious Southward, Jan. 2nd, at 5:30 p.m.
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North Alabama Medical Center to Celebrate Five-Year Anniversary Wednesday
December 04, 2023FLORENCE, Ala., – North Alabama Medical Center (NAMC) will celebrate the five-year anniversary of the opening of the new hospital on Wednesday, Dec. 6th. Following more than a year of planning and 25 months of construction, the $230 million, 450,000-square-foot facility off Veterans Drive officially opened its doors on Friday, Dec. 6, 2018.
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NAMC’s Dr. Valvani Earns Certified Medical Director Designation
November 30, 2023FLORENCE, Ala., – Rachna Valvani, MD, CMD, has earned the designation of Certified Medical Director (CMD) by the American Board of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (ABPLM). Best known as ‘Dr. Rich,’ she is an internal medicine and geriatrics faculty physician at North Alabama Medical Center.
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Rutherford Named Director of Critical Care Services at NAMC
October 23, 2023FLORENCE, Ala., – Officials at North Alabama Medical have announced Charity Rutherford as the new director of Critical Care services.
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Dr. Kristen Reed Joins North Alabama Surgery
October 03, 2023FLORENCE, Ala., – North Alabama Medical Center is pleased to welcome Kristen Reed, MD, to the medical staff as our newest general surgeon. Dr. Reed comes to NAMC from Oregon Health & Science University in the Portland area where she completed her surgical residency.
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North Alabama Medical Center Receives Primary Stroke Certification
September 13, 2023FLORENCE – North Alabama Medical Center has earned the Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval®, certifying the facility as a primary stroke center. The certification comes weeks after the hospital received the Get With The Guidelines® - Stroke Gold Plus quality achievement award from the American Heart Association.
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