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 [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: March 30,2012
Tags: beds, certificate of need, construction, expansion, health, health care, hospitals, medicine, Psychiatry, state agency, state law
JACKSON — Jackson HMA, LLC (d/b/a Central Mississippi Medical Center) has received certificate of need (CON) authority for the expansion of its adult psychiatric unit bed capacity from 29 to 47 beds. The proposed project will include the renovation of 8.405 square feet on the 6th floor of the hospital. The total capital expenditure for [...] [...]

by Associated Press Published: November 3,2011
Tags: Adam and Eve, addiction, being human, Bioethics, Bishop Joseph Latino, choice, conversion, Cultural Psychiatry, death, Duncan Gray, Europe, faith, freedom, Garden of Eden, global health, guilt, innocence, instrumentalisation, Last Night, life after death, Mississippi, Mississippi Gulf Coast, Morality, Neuroscience, objectification, objectivity, Personhood, Pharma Culture, Politics, Pope John Paul II, Psychiatry, Rabbi Deborah Kassoff, Relationships, scientific research, seeing, sex, sexuality, shame, staring, subjectivity, suffering, technology, the look, Theology of the Body
Mississippi religious leaders are split on a “personhood” initiative on next Tuesday’s ballot. Initiative 26 would amend the state constitution to declare life begins at fertilization. The state’s largest religious group, the Mississippi Baptist Convention, supports the proposal, as does the Tupelo-based American Family Association. >> RELATED STORY: Barbour votes for Personhood amendment after all [...] [...]