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 Associated Press Published: July 12,2012
Tags: emergency department, emergency medicine, Emergency Room, health, health care, medical, medicine, public health, state agency, trauma, trauma level, trauma rating
VICKSBURG — River Region Medical Center’s emergency room rating has been dropped by the state to the lowest possible, meaning transfers of patients to other facilities might become more customary. The Mississippi State Department of Health lowered the rating from a Level III to Level IV in February, in part because of a decision not [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: November 16,2011
Tags: construction, dedication, doctors, emergency medicine, expansion, healthcare, hospitals, medicine, nburses, pediatrics, physicians, surgeons, trauma
JACKSON — Batson Children’s Hospital has dedicated its new Colonel Harland Sanders Children’s Emergency Department and the Selby and Richard McRae Children’s Trauma Unit, tripling the treatment area available for the state’s only Level 1 pediatric emergency and trauma center. Partially funded by individual $1-million gifts from the Colonel Harland Sanders and the Selby and [...] [...]
GULFPORT — Memorial Hospital at Gulfport has been designated a Level II Trauma Center by the Mississippi State Department of Health. Memorial is the only Level II Trauma Center in Harrison and Hancock counties. A Level II Trauma Center provides comprehensive trauma care to the community or region and serves as a referral facility for [...] [...]
SOUTHAVEN — The trauma level at Baptist Memorial Hospital-DeSoto’s emergency department has been upgraded from Level IV to Level III status, enabling the hospital to be able to serve trauma patients. Baptist DeSoto’s emergency department saw 55,757 patients last year. Of that total, 12,880 patients arrived by ambulance, and 395 were trauma arrivals. One reason [...] [...]
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