by Associated Press Published: January 10,2012
Tags: courts, doctors, health, healthcare, hospitals, kickbacks, law, medicine, physicians, plea, sentencing
OXFORD — A Batesville physician has pleaded guilty to bribing then-Panola County administrator David Chandler with $25,000.
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports 51-year-old Robert S. Corkern appeared before U.S. District Judge Neal B. Biggers Jr. in Oxford yesterday.
In taking the plea deal, Corkern avoids trial with two co-defendants, Raymond Shoemaker of Tupelo, a healthcare executive, [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: January 5,2012
Tags: demand, economy, employees, firings, health, healthcare, hospitals, lay offs, medicine, payroll, recession, workers
JACKSON — The University of Mississippi Medical Center is reducing the size of its workforce by approximately 115 employees.
Coupled with a decision to not fill 90 vacant positions, the UMMC workforce will be about 2 percent smaller than it was at the end of 2011, according to Dr. James E. Keeton, vice chancellor for health [...] [...]
AROUND MISSISSIPPI — The Mississippi Department of Health has approved a $4.18 million project in Tupelo for providing positron emission tomography services.
Image Center at BridgePoint LLC sought approval to provide PET services in Tupelo. PET scans work with a radioactive injection to trace blood flow throughout the body. Some medical groups believe the scans can [...] [...]
JACKSON — The University of Mississippi Medical Center and the Mississippi State Department of Health has released more details about a stolen laptop computer containing sensitive, personal information about a health study’s participants as well as some UMMC patients.
UMMC and MSDH are informing nearly 1,500 participants in research studies of a breach of their personal [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: December 20,2011
Tags: colleges, computers, education, health, health study, healthcare, higher education, hospitals, identity theft, medicine, theft, universities
JACKSON — Officials are warning about 1,500 participants in health studies that a laptop containing some personal information was stolen.
The computer, assigned to a University of Mississippi Medical Center faculty member, was stolen Oct. 31 from a Jackson clinic after it was left unsecured. Records of one study, with 1,400 patients, include age, sex, race, [...] [...]
BILOXI — A crowd of veterans and their supporters were on hand when the Biloxi Veterans Affairs medical care facility marked the completion of five new buildings and other improvements with a dedication ceremony.
WLOX television reports that the expansion was the largest in the history of the Biloxi VA.
The $310 million improvement project nearly doubles [...] [...]
JACKSON — Charlotte W. Dupre’ has been promoted to CEO at Central Mississippi Medical Center (CMMC) in Jackson, effective Dec. 14.
Dupre’ joined Health Management Associates (HMA), which operates CMMC, in January as the COO of Physicians Regional Medical Center–Pine Ridge in Naples, Fla. Prior to joining HMA, she was the CEO at River Parishes Hospital [...] [...]
In response to rising healthcare costs and the uncertainty of federal healthcare reform, health care providers nationwide are consolidating, and academic medical centers and for-profit hospitals are entering into partnership agreements.
The University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) has announced it is exploring a partnership with Florida-based Health Management Associates Inc. (HMA), which owns 10 hospitals [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: December 8,2011
Tags: budget, doctors, employees, healthcare, hospitals, hours, medicine, nurses, pay, salaries, workers
MERIDIAN — A Meridian hospital has reduced hours for its staff in what is described as a budgetary move.
Anderson Hospital CEO Ray Humphreys tells WTOK-TV hours have been trimmed from 40 per week to 36. He says it covers everyone except those in jobs considered critical.
Humphreys says the hospital has experienced a $1.4 million reduction [...] [...]
CORINTH — Officials at Magnolia Regional Health Center in Corinth say the hospital has received 11 positive salmonella cultures since Nov. 28.
Hospital CEO Nick Napper tells the Daily Corinthian some of the cases have been admitted to the hospital.
Napper says the patients who tested positive for salmonella are in stable condition or have been treated [...] [...]
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