by MBJ Staff Published: May 29,2013
Tags: clinic, expand, expansion, health, health care, hospital, laboratory, medical, medicine, move, public health, relocate, relocation
FLOWOOD — Cardiovascular Services of Central Mississippi, presently located in the Medical Office Building on the campus of Central Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, has expanded its location and services to include a clinic and vascular lab in Flowood to provide comprehensive evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of vascular diseases effective June 11. Cardiovascular Services of [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: May 19,2013
Tags: acquisition, appeal, bench, buy, case, clinic, court, decision, health, health care, hospital, judge, lawsuit, medical, medicine, motion, public health, purchase, ruling, sale, sell, stay, trial
CANTON — The Mississippi Supreme Court has granted a motion from St. Dominic Health Systems to dismiss its appeal of a judge’s order that it did not have a binding contract to buy an outpatient surgery clinic in Canton. The dismissal order was made public by the court late last week. St. Dominic had argued [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: May 10,2013
Tags: build, building, clinic, construction, dermatologist, dermatology, ground breaking, health, health care, public health
HATTIESBURG — Dermatology-South, a service of Hattiesburg Clinic, recently held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new facility. The new facility will be located at #3 Thompson Park Drive, just off Highway 11 in Hattiesburg,. Upon completion, the Dermatology-South facility will be home to Hattiesburg Clinic dermatologists William L. Waller III, MD, and Beth Rose, MD, [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: May 1,2013
Tags: bed, certificate of need, clinic, construction, expand, expansion, health health care, hospital, medical, medicine, state agency
AROUND MISSISSIPPI — The Mississippi State Department of Health has issued certificates of need (CONs) for three projects. Universal Health System (d/b/a Parkwood Behavioral Health System) in Olive Branch has received a CON for the construction, renovation and addition of 20 acute adult psychiatric beds. These beds will be housed in new construction to be [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 28,2013
Tags: appeal, bench, case, clinic, contract, court, health, health care, hospital, judicial, justice, law, lawsuit, legal, medical, medicine, outpatient, surgery, trial
CANTON — St. Dominic Health Systems can prove during a trial that it has a binding contract to buy an outpatient surgery clinic in Canton that was improperly sold to a competitor, attorneys for the hospital system told the state Supreme Court yesterday. St. Dominic attorney Sheldon Alston told the high court that a Madison [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 27,2013
Tags: bench, case, clinic, court, health, health care, judge, justice, law, lawsuit, legal, medical, medicine, outpatient, surgery, trial
JACKSON — The Mississippi Supreme Court will hear arguments today in a lawsuit involving St. Dominic Health Systems’ efforts to buy an outpatient clinic in Madison County. A judge ruled against St. Dominic in 2011. In 2008, St. Dominic agreed to buy the ambulatory surgery center for $800,000. Although the center was no longer in [...] [...]
MERIDIAN and D’IBERVILLE — The Mississippi State Department of Health has issued certificates of need (CONs) for two projects. Meadowbrook Health and Rehab, LLC, of Meridian has received CON authority for the cost overrun to CON #R-0802 (construction of Northpointe Health & Rehab for the replacement of 21-bed Kemper County Nursing Home and the relocation [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: February 28,2013
Tags: abortion, baby, birth, clinic, health, health care, hearing, license, medical, medicine, state government, state law
JACKSON — Mississippi’s only abortion clinic is scheduled for an April 18 license revocation hearing before the state Department of Health, and officials say a decision could come days or weeks later. The Health Department told the clinic in late January that it intends to take away its license because the facility had failed to [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: February 6,2013
Tags: abortion, baby, bill, birth, clinic, health care, law, legislation, legislator. legislative, preganacy, public health, state government, women's rights
JACKSON — Mississippi could restrict the use of abortion-inducing drugs and make women visit a physician an additional time after using them. Senate Bill 2795 also would restrict a woman from taking the pills to seven weeks after their last menstruation. Many doctors now prescribe the medicine up to nine weeks into a pregnancy. The [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 18,2013
Tags: appeal, bench, city government, clinic, court, decision, health, health care, judge, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, legal, location, mental health, minicipal, municipality, psychiatric, psychiatrist, Psychiatry, ruling, site, treatment
OCEAN SPRINGS — The city of Ocean Springs is taking a fight over a location for a mental health clinic to the Mississippi Supreme Court. Jackson County Circuit Judge Robert Krebs ruled Dec. 21 that the city erred in denying a use permit to the Psycamore mental health clinic. The Mississippi Press reports the board [...] [...]