Melissa George Neonatal Memorial Fund - Huntsville Hospital Foundation

The Melissa George Neonatal Memorial Fund has provided almost all of the equipment in our Neonatal ICU, helping 20,000+ babies!

The Melissa George Neonatal Memorial Fund at Huntsville Hospital Foundation gives our tiniest, most vulnerable patients the best chance of survival. More than 1,200 infants from across the region are cared for annually in Huntsville Hospital for Women & Children’s Regional Neonatal Intensive Care Unit – North Alabama’s only Level III NICU.

Generous community donors ensure the NICU – and Madison Hospital’s Level II Nursery – have cutting-edge technology so every baby receives the most appropriate level of care.

Miracle Bash

August 2, 2024

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Havoc Melissa George Night

January 18, 2025

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Honor your miracle on the NICU Miracle Tree!

A beautiful NICU Miracle Tree “grows” outside the NICU entrance. You can purchase a leaf (in honor) or butterfly (in memory) to celebrate a baby who spent time in the unit!

Click here to purchase a leaf or butterfly for your NICU miracle! 100% of your tax-deductible purchase will help provide equipment and programs to benefit our smallest patients and their families.

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“The level of community support for the Huntsville Hospital NICU means the world to me as a recent NICU mom. These preemies have a very big job to do as it is … We ask them to develop all of these skills that would have otherwise been done for them in the womb. Without the community's support, Palmer might not have had access to the necessary equipment and technology he so desperately needed to progress and thrive.”
Katie Vallely Martz, NICU mom

HOPE Group: Helping Other Parents Endure

As Amy and Chris know the devastating heartbreak of losing a child, they wanted to provide a safe place for other parents to navigate their grief journey. The HOPE Group (Helping Other Parents Endure) is a partnership between the Melissa George Neonatal Memorial Fund at Huntsville Hospital Foundation and Hospice Family Care for parents who have experienced infant loss. Facilitated by Amy and Caring House staff, the HOPE Group meets once a month in Huntsville.

For more information on group days and times, please call The Caring House at 256-650-1212.

About Melissa's Fund

In November 2005, Amy and Chris George established the Melissa George Neonatal Memorial Fund in memory of their infant daughter Melissa Suzanne. The Georges’ twin daughters, Melissa Suzanne and Ann Catherine, were born 14 weeks early, and Melissa passed away just a few hours after birth. Ann Catherine, now a healthy teen, spent the first 68 days of her life in the NICU at Huntsville Hospital for Women & Children. Amy and Chris were so grateful for the care their daughters received, that they felt compelled to give back. Since then, more than $5.6 million has been raised to make miracles possible.