Kim Dowdy, data analyst, has been named North Mississippi Medical Center-Pontotoc’s latest Employee of the Quarter.

For the past year, Covid-19 has limited the number of patients that could be seen at the Tippah County Hospital’s rural health clinic located in the hospital lobby.

For Meagan Brown, a clinical associate professor of pharmacy practice at the University of Mississippi, serving the underserved has been the driving force in her career. Since joining the UM School of Pharmacy faculty in 2011, Brown has been involved in the Mississippi Delta Health Collaborative.

Theme: “Adequate Self Care: Transformation, Motivation and Essentials” | Conference Dates: May 26-29, 2021 | Location: Virtual

Memorial has been named one of America’s Best Hospitals for Cancer Care by the Women’s Choice Award®, America’s trusted referral source for the best in healthcare. The award signifies that Memorial is in the top 4% of 4,542 U.S. hospitals offering cancer care services. This is the eighth consecutive year Memorial Hospital has received this accolade.

Trace Regional Hospital has selected CPSI’s Evident and Trubridge to better manage patient care and improve their financial operations.

Complying with the CMS price transparency mandate is only the first step. Hospitals should also ramp up their communication efforts and finally answer the question for patients: “What do I owe?”

Health officials in Guinea Sunday declared an Ebola outbreak in the nation’s southeastern N’Zerekore prefecture after confirming three cases in the rural community of Gouéké, the World Health Organization reports. 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Friday released recommendations for treating Extensively Drug-Resistant Salmonella Typhi, a systemic illness transmitted through contaminated food and water and person-to-person contact. Following a large outbreak in Pakistan in 2016, CDC has received at least 71 reports of XDR Typhi infection in the United States, including at least nine cases since November 2019 in patients who had not traveled internationally. XDR Typhi strains are resistant to antibiotics generally recommended to treat typhoid fever, including ampicillin, ceftriaxone, chloramphenicol, ciprofloxacin, and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is reminding healthcare professionals seeing patients from the areas affected by recent winter storms to maintain a high index of suspicion for carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning. Other people who may be exposed to the same CO source may need to be identified and evaluated.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released guidance on COVID-19 vaccination planning, training, and administration for health care providers who vaccinate homebound persons. This includes, for example, people who need help or medical equipment to leave their home, typically do not leave their home, or whose health could get worse if they do. CDC also has updated its vaccine storage and handling toolkit, which includes information related to home use.

As more and more healthcare workers see their counterparts being vaccinated against COVID-19, fewer of them are declining the vaccine, a new study says.