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: April 30,2013
Tags: accident, crash, doctor, doctor's office, health, health care, injury, medical, medicine, physician, vehicle
OCEAN SPRINGS — Four people were taken to the hospital after the driver of an SUV drove through a doctor’s office in Ocean Springs. Office administrator Donna Heitzman tells The Sun Herald at about 9:30 a.m. yesterday a man drove his Jeep Cherokee through the wall of Ocean Springs Internal Medicine. Heitzman says four people, [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 28,2013
Tags: abortion, abortion-inducing drug, baby, birth, drug, health, health care, legisation, medical, medicine, public health, state law
JACKSON — Gov. Phil Bryant has signed a bill that regulates the prescription and use of abortion-inducing drugs. He signed Senate Bill 2795, and it becomes law July 1. It says a physician must be present when a woman takes drugs prescribed to end a pregnancy in its early weeks. It also says the woman [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 26,2013
Tags: acquire, acquisition, board of supervisors, buy, county, county government, health, health care, hospital, medical, medicine, purchase, supervisor
NATCHEZ — Less than five years after Adams County failed to find a buyer for county-owned Natchez Regional Medical Center, at least one interested buyer recently emerged. The Natchez Democrat reports the potential buyer approached several Adams County supervisors. Supervisor Mike Lazarus says it’s too early to tell what will come from the inquiry, but [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: April 23,2013
Tags: antifungal, award, drug, education, health, health care, higher education, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, medical, medicine, pharmaceutical, postsecondary education, public university, startup company, university
STARKVILLE — Sano Chemical, the company launched to develop an antifungal drug discovered at Mississippi State University, has received the university’s Faculty Start-up Company of the Year. Dr. Stephen Pruett, basic sciences department head at MSU’s College of Veterinary Medicine, said the award was given by the Office of Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer at the [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: April 23,2013
Tags: bill, bond, building, college, construction, education, facility, funding, health, health care, higher education postsecondary education, law, legislation, medical, medicine, nurse, nursing, public university, state government, university
HATTIESBURG — The Mississippi Legislature’s authorization of $20 million in state bonds will help elevate a new nursing building at the University of Southern Mississippi from the planning stage to the construction phase. Southern Miss will receive the funding this year, which will expedite plans for the building – to be named Asbury Hall and [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 19,2013
Tags: baby, doctor, educator, health, health care, higher education, HIV, influential people, magazine, media, medical, medicine, pediatrician, pediatrics, physician, postsecondary education, public university, ranking, sexually trasmitted disease, university
JACKSON — Time magazine has named HIV specialist Dr. Hannah Gay, an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, to its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. In caring for a newborn infected with HIV in 2010, Gay followed an atypical treatment regimen and functionally cured [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 17,2013
Tags: abortion, anti-abortion, baby, bench, birth, court, decision, health, health care, judge, judicial, justice, law, legal, license, medical, medicine, pregnancy, pregnant, public health, ruling, state law
JACKSON — Mississippi’s only abortion clinic continued seeing patients yesterday, the day after a federal judge temporarily stopped the state from closing it. Several people wearing florescent yellow vests labeled “Clinic Escort” helped women find parking places and walked with them into the cherry pink building in a Jackson retail district. Outside an iron fence [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 16,2013
Tags: administrator, appeal, bench, bribe, county government, court, health, health care, hospital, judge, judicial, justice, kickback, medical, medicine, sentence, trial
BATESVILLE — Former Panola County administrator David Chandler has asked a judge to give him more time to appeal his guilty plea to charges in an alleged kickback scheme at Tri-Lakes Medical Center in Batesville. However, the deadline for Chandler to file an appeal passed two weeks ago. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports Chandler’s [...] [...]
Randy Easterling, MD, of Vicksburg was recently one of the key presenters at the National Prescription Drug Abuse Summit held in Orlando, Fla. Easterling, medical director for River Region’s Marian Hill Chemical Dependency Unit, presented on the topic of the cost of prescription drug abuse, both from a human and a financial perspective. Easterling is [...] [...]
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