Huntsville Hospital Health System is acquiring DeKalb Regional Medical Center, a 134-bed hospital in Fort Payne. Terms of the deal, which includes related physician clinics and other outpatient facilities, were not disclosed.
UMass Memorial Health plans to convert the former Beaumont Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center on Plantation Street to a 72-bed hospital building.
As of Friday, December 29, the Kimball community was using the current hospital, even as work is taking place a few blocks away on the new facility. Kimball Health Services CEO Ken Hunter said the new hospital is needed because the current hospital does not always meet requirements or needs