HERANADO — DeSoto County supervisors have approved refinancing $22 million in 2004 general obligation bonds, a move that could save $900,000.
The Commercial Appeal reports the board also approved a health coverage pact for county employees. The new plan keeps rates flat.
The current interest rate the county must pay from 2015 to 2024 ranges from 4.25 [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 23,2012
Tags: appropriations, budget, clinics, doctors, health, healthcare, hospitals, mediciane, medicine, nurses, physicians, public health, state government, surgeons, therapists
JACKSON — Legislative budget writers want to slash the state general fund appropriation for the state Department of Health to $20.7 million — the lowest level it has seen since 1990, when it received $20.3 million.
That recommendation comes at a time when the state ranks first in the nation for adult obesity, teen birth rate [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 20,2012
Tags: bonds, colleges, debt, education, health, healthcare, higher education, hospitals, state government, universities
JACKSON — The state College Board has approved a $112 million bond issue for the University of Mississippi Medical Center, even though one board member questioned whether it was appropriate to borrow the money.
UMMC had originally proposed to use some of the money to buy software to comply with a federal requirement that it start [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: January 20,2012
Tags: colleges, construction, education, health, healthcare, higher education, medicine, nurses, nursing, schools, universities
HATTIESBURG — The University of Southern Mississippi Foundation has launched an $8-million fundraising campaign to help construct a new facility for the University’s School of Nursing.
The School of Nursing Building Campaign has received a $4-million commitment from the Asbury Foundation of Hattiesburg Inc., a gift that will name the proposed building Asbury Hall, pending College [...] [...]
LUMBERTON — Assuming the legal language can be satisfactorily completed in time, the initial cleaning of the former Lumberton hospital could begin this spring.
That would be the first step in determining whether the long-shuttered building could be renovated and turned into a personal care facility for the elderly that would be leased from the city.
“That’s [...] [...]
JACKSON — The leader of the Mississippi Hospital Association says his group won’t fight renewal of a tax his members pay to help fund Medicaid.
The association protested in 2009 when then-Gov. Haley Barbour pushed for the hospital tax.
Now, the association’s president and CEO, Sam Cameron, says the tax gives hospitals predictability in their expenses.
Medicaid is [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 19,2012
Tags: courts, drugs, federal government, health, healthcare, healthcare benefits, law enforcement, lawsuit, medicine, pharmaceuticals, settlement, state government
JACKSON — Attorney General Jim Hood has asked the federal government to give him until Jan. 30 to file documents supporting Mississippi’s effort to keep $17 million from a settlement with pharmaceutical companies accused of inflating wholesale prices.
Alper Ozinal, spokesman for the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, tells the Clarion-Ledger the agency had [...] [...]
SOUTHAVEN — Kimberly-Clark Corporation is locating a distribution facility in Southaven, which will employ more than 100 workers and represents a capital investment of approximately $2 million, according to the Mississippi Development Authority (MDA).
Kimberly-Clark’s facility will be used to distribute medical devices and products, and it will be located in more than 500,000 square feet [...] [...]
JACKSON COUNTY — Prosecutors have dropped all charges against former heart surgeon, who in 2009 was accused of growing marijuana on his 50-acre property in Jackson County.
District Attorney Tony Lawrence said in a statement yesterday that Circuit Robert Krebs signed the order to dismiss Monday.
David Bruce Allen was charged in February 2009 after a raid [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: January 11,2012
Tags: colleges, death, education, health, healthcare, higher education, hospitals, medicine, obituary, universities
JACKSON — Dr. A. Wallace Conerly, vice chancellor emeritus for health affairs at the University of Mississippi Medical Center and dean emeritus of the School of Medicine, died yesterday in the UMMC hospital that bears his name. He was 76.
Conerly, who served as vice chancellor from 1994-2003, had been hospitalized early yesterday at the Wallace [...] [...]
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