by Associated Press Published: March 28,2013
Tags: expansion, health, health benefits, health care, health care reform, Medicaid, medical, medinice, rally, state government
JACKSON — More than 200 health advocates, doctors and others rallied at the Mississippi Capitol yesterday, asking legislators to expand Medicaid to the working poor. Expansion appears unlikely, however, because it’s opposed by Gov. Phil Bryant and Republican leaders in the state House and Senate. The three-month legislative session is scheduled to end April 7. [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: January 25,2013
Tags: emergency medicine, Emergency Room, fund, health care, hospital, legislative, Legislature, medical, medicine, medinice, review, state government, trauma, trauma care
JACKSON — In response to a legislative request, the PEER Committee has conducted a review of the revenues, distributions and expenditures of the Mississippi Trauma Care Systems Fund. The Legislature created the state’s trauma care system to “reduce the death and disability resulting from traumatic injury.” Participants in the state’s trauma care system are the [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: April 12,2012
Tags: alumna, Alumni, colleges, donation, drugs, education, endowment, gift, higher education, medinice, pharmaceutical, pharmacist, pharmacy, scholarship, universities
OXFORD — The University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy is offering a new scholarship thanks to the generosity of the late Madeline O. Sciacca of Slidell, La., who remembered her alma mater in her will. Sciacca, who obtained her pharmacy degree from UM in 1953, left $400,000 to the Ole Miss School of Pharmacy to [...] [...]
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