Posts Tagged ‘hospitals’

Nurse practitioners fill void in state health care

by Lynn Lofton Published: February 1,2013

Tags: Delta, hospitals, Mississippi, Mississippi Nurses Association, nursing, nursing shortage

The number of nurse practitioners is increasing in Mississippi. Their role in health care is also increasing as these highly trained nursing professionals are specializing and giving patients a higher level of care. According to Gayle Harrell, president of the Mississippi Nurses Association, there are 3,300 advanced practicing nurses and approximately 2,800 to 2,900 of [...] [...]

July 16, 2012- Chuck McIntosh

by Chuck McIntosh Published: July 13,2012

Tags: hospitals, Medicaid, Phil Bryant

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Supervisors mulling sale or lease of Grenada Lake Memorial

by Associated Press Published: June 14,2012

Tags: attorney, county government, health, health care, hospitals, law, lawyer, lease, medical, medicine, sale

GRENADA — Grenada County supervisors have hired a Jackson law firm to offer advice on the possibility of selling or leasing the publicly owned Grenada Lake Memorial Hospital in Grenada. WCBI-TV reports supervisors received a report this past week on the financial impact of leasing or selling the facility. The details of that report have [...] [...]

Associate director at VA hospital arrested for prescription drug fraud

JACKSON — An associate director at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Mississippi has been arrested and charged with prescription fraud as part of an ongoing investigation, authorities said Thursday. Dorothy White-Taylor, 59, the associate director of patient care services at the G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery VA Medical Center in Jackson, was arrested Tuesday and released on [...] [...]

UMMC unveil plans to build new $35M research facility

by Associated Press Published: May 21,2012

Tags: colleges, construction, education, health, health care, higher education, hospitals, medical, medicine, research, universities

JACKSON — University of Mississippi Medical Center officials say a new research building will include space for startup biotechnology companies. UMMC officials say construction could start in January 2013 at cost of $35 million for the eight-story shell of the Cancer and Biomedical Science Research Center. They say $20 million in funding comes through the [...] [...]

Prosecutors say medical kickback charges shouldn’t be dismissed

by Associated Press Published: May 14,2012

Tags: charges, courts, health, health care, hospitals, judges, judicial, judiciary, kickbacks, medical, medicine, scheme

OXFORD — Federal prosecutors say the owner of a nursing services company acknowledged paying a hospital executive for “procuring business” and a judge should not dismiss the corruption charges against him. Earnest Levi Garner Jr. of Batesville was convicted in March on charges including conspiracy and embezzlement related to work at Tri-Lakes Medical Center in [...] [...]

Natchez Regional, UnitedHealthcare form network partnership

by MBJ Staff Published: May 6,2012

Tags: health, health care, hospitals, medical, medicine, network, partnership

NATCHEZ — UnitedHealthcare and Natchez Regional Medical Center have formed a new network relationship, providing access to Natchez’s physicians and inpatient/outpatient services for UnitedHealthcare employer-sponsored and individual plan participants in Southwest Mississippi and Louisiana. “Natchez Regional Medical Center is an important provider of health care services, and our new network relationship gives UnitedHealthcare plan participants [...] [...]

River Oaks physician performs new surgery for first time in state

by MBJ Staff Published: April 30,2012

Tags: doctors, health, heatlh care, hospitals, medicasl, medicine, physicians, surgeons, surgery

FLOWOOD — River Oaks Hospital reports it is pioneering the use of a minimally invasive surgical device to treat the sacroiliac (SI) joint. Dr. Winston Capel, a neurosurgeon, has performed the state’s first SI joint fusion surgery at River Oaks Hospital using the minimally-invasive iFuse Implant System, according to the hospital. Capel, who according to [...] [...]

St. Dominic’s new behavioral health facility now open

by MBJ Staff Published: April 30,2012

Tags: behavioral health, constyruction, grand opening, health, health care, hospitals, medical, medicine

JACKSON — The first phase of St. Dominic’s new Behavioral Health Services building housing the acute care psychiatric hospital is now complete and open for patients. Instead of renovating the existing Behavioral Health Services building, which was in need of substantial repairs, St. Dominic’s partially razed the building and reconstructed it in the same location. [...] [...]

Supreme Court rules against St. Dominic in hospital dispute

MADISON — St. Dominic Health Systems’ legal efforts to locate a medical facility in Madison failed yesterday before the Mississippi Supreme Court. St. Dominic wanted to relocate 71 beds from its Jackson campus to a sprawling, $121 million Madison hospital that would include a huge public park. In 2010, Chancery Judge Cynthia Brewer of Madison [...] [...]

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