The Melissa George Neonatal Memorial Fund at Huntsville Hospital Foundation gives our tiniest, most vulnerable patients the best chance of survival. More than 1,100 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.

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 that time, the Georges and generous donors to Huntsville Hospital Foundation have raised millions of dollars to provide lifesaving equipment, innovative technology and meaningful programs that otherwise wouldn’t be possible.