Marshall Medical Centers
Marshall Medical Centers, an affiliate of the Huntsville Hospital Health System, is represented on three campuses in Marshall County.
Marshall Medical Center North, in Guntersville, is a 90-bed acute care facility that serves the northern part of the county and operates a Certified Trauma III Emergency Department. Its sister hospital, Marshall Medical South, in Boaz, is a 150-bed facility and also operates a Certified Trauma III Emergency Department. Wellness facilities at both hospitals offer the latest aerobic equipment, free weights and machines and a variety of classes and are home to the only Olympic-size pools in the county, providing opportunities for the public and therapy patients to participate in aquatic workouts.
The Gary R. Gore Medical Complex, in Albertville, is home to the Marshall Professional Center, which provides outpatient services including wound healing, imaging and rheumatology services, and the Marshall Cancer Care Center, a 22,000-square-foot facility that offers medical and radiation oncology and hematology services.
With more than 1,700 employees, Marshall Medical Centers is among the county’s largest employers. The medical staff consists of 186 physicians representing 27 specialties.
In August, the Health Resources and Services Administration, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, awarded Marshall Medical Centers the Rural Residency Planning and Development Program Grant to support planning and developing a new rural residence program to grow the physician workforce in medically underserved areas.
DeKalb Regional Medical Center
DeKalb Regional Medical Center, a 134-bed hospital in Fort Payne that provides health care services for DeKalb County and adjacent communities in west Georgia, joined the Huntsville Hospital Health System in April 2024. Its services include 24/7 emergency care, women’s and children’s services, orthopedic surgery, cardiac catheterization, diagnostic imaging, geriatric psychiatric care and sleep medicine.
DeKalb Regional is accredited by The Joint Commission and the American College of Cardiology as a primary stroke center and chest pain center. In 2025, the hospital was awarded the Get With The Guidelines Rural Stroke Gold and Get With The Guidelines Stroke Silver Quality Awards by the American Heart & Stroke Association.
This summer, DeKalb Regional announced that starting in September its Emergency Department will be managed by a new physician group, New Gen, as part of its ongoing efforts to enhance emergency care.
Highlands Medical Center
The Highlands Medical Center (HMC) in Scottsboro is part of the Huntsville Hospital Health System and operates a 170-bed hospital that offers a variety of emergency, inpatient and outpatient services. It also provides services through several related facilities across the community, including two rehabilitation and long-term care nursing homes. HMC supports more than 800 jobs and is one of the top employers in Jackson County.
In July, HMC, in partnership with Northeast Alabama Community College, offered a free six-week certified nursing assistant (CNA) course in the hopes of bringing more trained CNAs to rural parts of Jackson County.
This summer HMC also implemented EasyConnect Jaguar, an interface engine designed by iatricSystems that streamlines the transfer of data between health care systems, and added three new upgraded ambulances to its fleet.
Atrium Health Floyd Cherokee Medical Center
Atrium Health Floyd Cherokee Medical Center, in Centre, is a not-for-profit 50-bed hospital that provides emergency care, drug and alcohol treatment, lab work, respiratory care and surgical services.
The hospital is part of the Atrium Health Floyd system, which has locations throughout northwest Georgia and northeast Alabama. Other facilities in DeKalb County include a rural health clinic in Centre that provides immediate and after-hours non-emergency care to patients and a rural health clinic in Piedmont that offers chronic disease management and preventive care services and sick visits for patients of all ages.
In March, the hospital opened a Women’s Imaging Suite that will provide easier access to mammograms for people in northeast Alabama.
This article appears in the November 2025 issue of Business Alabama.
