A feasibility study, due in February, will determine if a health science high school is in needed in Alabama, and where it should be located. Demopolis is pushing hard to have it next to a downtown hospital.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey is eying some major construction projects in West Alabama, and is facing pushback from her fellow Republican lawmakers who believe the limited state funds could be better spent elsewhere. A high school focused on training future healthcare professionals is still on the table in Alabama, and West Alabama officials hope it can be paired with a controversial highway project to bolster the state’s Black Belt region.
It is a statewide residential high school, meaning that students will live on campus and will be recruited throughout Alabama. It is also connected to Whitfield Regional Hospital, a rural hospital that has been managed by UAB Health for the past six years. The hospital’s accessibility would provide students with hands-on clinical and laboratory resources during their education.
The proposed West Alabama Highway Corridor runs through a rural, and mostly poor region of Alabama from Thomasville to Moundville. The highway project is not proposed to run through Demopolis, but it would connect just east of the Marengo County city. The highway’s corridor intersects and connects with U.S. 80, which runs through the south end of Demopolis.Supporters say the high school in downtown Demopolis would be an economic boon for the Black Belt.
McCampbell and other Black Belt lawmakers support having the health sciences high school built on 10 acres adjacent to Whitfield Regional Hospital in downtown Demopolis – in the heart of the Black Belt region. The new school is proposed to be connected to the hospital via by a walking bridge to provide students easy access to hands-on clinical experiences.
. Lawmakers instead OK’d spending for the feasibility study to see if the high school is even needed.
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