Nine Tupelo High School special education students will have a new classroom this year at North Mississippi Medical Center.

A national program designed to help students with disabilities obtain competitive community-based employment is expanding to south Mississippi through a strategic collaboration of the Mississippi Department of Rehabilitation Services, South Central Regional Medical Center and the Jones County School District.

Forrest General became the first hospital in Mississippi to use Gleolan™ (aminolevulinic acid HCl) for enhanced visualization of high-grade gliomas (including glioblastomas), or tumors occurring in the glial cells of the brain.

Memorial Hospital at Gulfport recently welcomed T. Paul Mace, MD, FACS, in the practice of general surgery.

Lauren Hollis has been named director of human resources for North Mississippi Medical Center-West Point. 

The Mississippi Board of Mental Health has been joined by one new member, and a new chair and vice chair have been named for the 2019-2020 year that began July 1, 2019.

A clinical trial at UMMC is getting a one-year extension. The trial which uses a new marijuana-derived drug to treat seizures in children received positive results leading to the extension of the study.

Long waits, high volume and uncompensated care costs put pressure on emergency medical providers and increase risks for patients

Caravan Health ACO Partners Lead in MIPS Scores for Second Straight Year

Mississippi Baptist Medical Center (MBMC) is improving patient health in an approach to reduce readmissions with a comprehensive strategy including patient-specific education and pharmacy fulfillment supported by the interactive patient engagement and education system from TeleHealth Services.

Published by the Mississippi State Department of Health

In addition to the Republican Gubernatorial primary, several other races are headed to runoffs. These races include Attorney General ®, Northern Distirct Transportation Commisioner ® and Central District Public Service Commisioner (D).

Jim Hood, the Democratic state attorney general, will face the winner of the Aug. 27 Republican runoff.

Democratic candidate for Governor Jim Hood and the two Republican candidates who will face a run-off at the end of the month, Tate Reeves and Bill Waller, spoke out on the remaining days in the campaign trail.

East Mississippi will see new leaders in Jackson when legislators convene in January.

Initial strategy reasoned that conditions were right for Democratic front-runner Jim Hood to face a “costly runoff” due to a crowded primary field and downplayed the chances for Waller and Foster.

The AHA next month will launch an Action Community offering free monthly webinars, coaching, resources, in-person meetings and site visits to help hospitals and health systems integrate “age-friendly” health care.

Cuts elsewhere in hospital payments will pay for it, but hospitals won’t be hurt overall, CMS insists

The program is designed to help providers gain additional insights into a patient’s health records without changing their workflows.

According to Modern Healthcare, the Trump administration hasn’t given up on its 340B hospital reimbursement cuts, but officials have come up with a smaller alternative pay cut in case CMS loses its ongoing battle over the original plan. The steep Medicare Part B cuts to 340B hospitals will continue for now, even though a federal judge has blocked them and demanded a government remedy to providers

Following two mass shootings last weekend that ended the lives of 31 people, seven leading medical organizations have said “enough” and called for action to prevent gun-related injuries and deaths.

While firearm injuries have traditionally been viewed through the lens of criminal justice, trauma experts say health systems are increasingly understanding and embracing their role in gun injury prevention.

These ASPR TRACIE-developed resources can help our stakeholders prepare for, respond to, and help their communities recover from mass violence incidents.

Conducting a sepsis screening during emergency medical service transport to an emergency department reduces time to treatment.

Major industry and specialty groups are praising CMS for proposing to pull back on a 2019 final rule that would collapse E/M codes and payment rates for established patient office visits.

Medicare and Medicaid Breakeven: Achieving an Elusive Goal

CMS recently proposed changes to Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) reporting in 2020, including higher performance thresholds and the implementation of a new participation framework.