TUPELO — For 42 years, Gerald Wages has been a pillar of leadership at North Mississippi Health Services.
In 1969, he started as assistant administrator and CFO of the Tupelo hospital. Wages, who served as interim chief executive three times for the hospital system, is retiring as executive vice president for community hospitals for North Mississippi [...] [...]
JACKSON — The Mississippi Health Department says it needs more money in the coming budget year or it may have to close clinics and reduce AIDS drug purchases.
Dr. Mary Currier, the state health officer, told the House Appropriations Committee that the department has been draining internal reserves to stay afloat last year and this year. [...] [...]
HATTIESBURG — Epic, an integrated electronic medical record (EMR) and practice management system, has gone live across Hattiesburg Clinic’s network of locations and providers, changing the technology of the practice.
Since then, patients who have visited Hattiesburg Clinic have experienced a different kind of appointment where they have left the office more informed and with increased [...] [...]
ACKERMAN — The Choctaw County Medical Foundation and Pioneer Health Systems will hold a ground-breaking ceremony Friday for the new Choctaw County Hospital in Ackerman.
Pioneer Health Systems, the parent Pioneer Community Hospital of Choctaw, is building the hospital and a medical office building in Ackerman.
U.S. Rep. Alan Nunnelee (R-Miss) is scheduled to speak at the [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 25,2012
Tags: economic development, employment, health, healthcare, investigation, jobs, medicine, mental health, mental retardation, Mississippi Economic Development Council Inc., patients
ELLISVILLE — The Economic Development Authority of Jones County lists Ellisville State School as the county’s third largest employer.With more than 1,500 on its employment roster, the Ellisville-based health care facility falls behind only Howard Industries and South Central Regional Medical Center as the county’s top employer.
Ellisville Mayor Tim Waldrup said Ellisville State School has [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 25,2012
Tags: Cancer, clinics, courts, doctors, fraud, health, healthcare, hospitals, law, medicine, oncologists, physicians
SUMMIT — A federal judge has granted a request to delay the trial of a doctor and two employees charged in a scheme to dilute cancer drugs and use old syringes on multiple patients.
Dr. Meera Sachdeva, Brittany McCoskey and Monica Weeks had been scheduled for trial Feb. 7. U.S. District Judge Dan Jordan signed an [...] [...]
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 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 [...] [...]
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 [...] [...]
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