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Supporters of Medicaid expansion rally at Capitol

Associated Press — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:42:30 +0000

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. [...]

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PEER reviews trauma care fund, makes recommendations

MBJ Staff — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:57:28 +0000

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 [...]

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Late alumna Sciacca endows scholarship at UM School of Pharmacy

MBJ Staff — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 23:21:18 +0000

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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