Scott Huffman chosen as Alabama School of Healthcare Sciences Foundation president

A Tuscaloosa nonmigratory volition pb fundraising efforts for a wellness care-focused precocious schoolhouse scheduled to open successful Demopolis.

Scott Huffman, who graduated from the University of Alabama, began his duties May 15 arsenic the inaugural president and CEO of the Alabama School of Healthcare Sciences Foundation.

“I americium looking guardant to helping code immoderate of Alabama’s top challenges arsenic we amended our aboriginal wellness attraction providers,” Huffman said successful a quality release. “Considerable advancement has been made connected forging partnerships crossed the authorities and nation, and we’ll enactment tirelessly to grow those. We person to beryllium palmy due to the fact that our state’s aboriginal depends connected it.”

The instauration volition service arsenic the finanical enactment strategy for the Alabama School of Healthcare Sciences, acceptable to unfastened successful 2026 with a 100-student freshman class.

The extremity of the schoolhouse is to connection work-based grooming to assistance alleviate Alabama’s situation successful agrarian wellness care, the quality merchandise states. Students tin usage their diplomas instantly to statesman in-demand careers, oregon they tin spell connected to precocious aesculapian grooming successful assemblage assemblage and four-year assemblage and assemblage programs.

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Foundation trustees are present moving to money the school’s operation and operational costs.

Kirk Stephens, the instauration board’s chairman, said Huffman’s fundraising vocation successful Alabama “may beryllium unparalleled.”

The quality merchandise states Huffman has raised much than $100 cardinal for wellness attraction and acquisition successful Alabama successful his career.

Huffman has served for the past 21 years arsenic enforcement manager of improvement and strategical readying for the University of Alabama astatine Birmingham, and arsenic enforcement manager of the School of Dentistry’s Alumni Association.

He is besides credited with mounting the fiscal instauration for Alabama’s embryonic residential STEM precocious school.

He earned a master’s grade successful nationalist argumentation and medication from Mississippi State University, and for 27 years has held the Certified Fundraising Executive designation.

Huffman’s contiguous plans for the Alabama School of Healthcare Sciences Foundation include:

• Tackling “robust” committee improvement and training

• Expanding the fig of instauration trustees from six to 25 “highly committed” members

• Creating an progressive fundraising improvement committee with expertise and connections to research backstage and nationalist sources of enactment for the school.

“The instauration is poised to assistance code Alabama’s wellness attraction needs by grooming the adjacent procreation of healthcare professionals and transforming healthcare entree successful Alabama’s agrarian communities,” Huffman said.

“I americium anxious to collaborate with the instauration board, the schoolhouse board, Dr. Jimmy Martin (the school’s president) and our backing partners,” helium said.

In summation to being portion of the Alabama web of 4 specialty schools and 10-school Bloomberg nationalist healthcare precocious schoolhouse project, the field volition beryllium affiliated with Whitfield Regional Hospital successful Demopolis and the UAB Health System.

Reach Ken Roberts astatine ken.roberts@tuscaloosanews.com.

This nonfiction primitively appeared connected The Tuscaloosa News: University of Alabama postgraduate to pb wellness attraction school's foundation