The well-regarded Healthsouth Rehab Hospital, 70-beds strong, an arm of the once giant nationwide hospital chain based in Birmingham. It proudly stands out on the Narrow Lane Road, looking so crisp and tony, that no one would ever suspect that it is a remnant of the Richard Scrushy accounting scandal of a decade ago. At that time the chain boasted outlets in every State, employed over 60,000 people, and earned $4 ½ billion in annual revenue. The affair shook the nation’s legal, financial and medical worlds, to say nothing of Alabama’s political arena. Bankruptcy and restructuring followed, but fortunately the Montgomery facility was allowed to stay in play.

-Charles Humphries