The U.S. Army Review ran this story about Northington General Hospital in 1945. The publication explored the high value of soldier/patient care in Tuscaloosa while praising Northington's long-term rehabilitation innovations.
Note the soldier aimed…
The World War II Army hospital in Tuscaloosa was named in memory of Lt. Col. Eugene Garland Northington, born Feb 12, 1880 in Prattville, Alabama, and who was a former student at the University of Alabama. He received his medical degree from Tulane…
The Northington General property was built as a temporary Army hospital in World War II. Work started on the hosptial in the early part of 1942 and eventually sprawled over 160 acres. After three years, the Army left at the end of the war and…
This 1912 charter of The Medical Society of Tuscaloosa County indicates that the group was originally chartered in 1877. Physicians in the area were granted membership by the Medical Association of the State of Alabama.
Groundbreaking of the South Wing of Druid City Hospital
On the ground - Col. Bryan Culberson and possibly Mr. Bramlett (?)
On the machine - Congressman Walter Flowers, D.O. McClusky, Frank Moody, Charles Snyder (behind post).
Governor George Wallace speaks at the opening of the new south wing of Druid City Hospital. University of Alabama President David Matthews is in the background on the right.