Forrest General Hospital is pleased to announce the hiring of a new Chief Nursing Officer. Phyllis Chambers-Berry, DNP, RN, NE-BC, assumed the duties of CNO effective September 1, 2019.

Baptist Memorial Hospital – Golden Triangle welcomes two new internal medicine physicians to its staff, Paul Scurti, DO and his wife Connie Scurti, DO.

William G. Jackson of Corinth, was honored as Mississippi’s Family Physician of the Year 2019 at the Mississippi Academy of Family Physicians Annual Meeting.

Hospital preparedness for natural disasters loomed large in a House committee hearing on climate change. But lawmakers didn’t want to talk about regulations.

IHI is sponsoring the Better Maternal Outcomes Rapid Improvement Network — a free, six-month program focused on maternal outcomes and respectful care. The network will assist participants in implementing promising practices and improve care delivery for all women and newborns. Participating organizations will learn how to spread best practices and protocols through a variety of shared learning formats. The next session begins Oct. 8.

To improve the health of patients struggling with addiction, learn how one program engages patients at multiple points of care through an in-house addiction team and clinic – all working in coordination with emergency department staff.

Tthe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has delayed further — until April 2020 — system edits that would require hospitals and health systems with multiple locations to include on outpatient prospective payment system claims for services provided in off-campus provider-based departments the exact same provider address entered in the Medicare Provider, Enrollment, Chain and Ownership System for that location. The edits were originally scheduled to take effect in July. CMS had delayed the effective date until Oct. 1 before announcing this week that the effective date is now April 2020. 

The CMS administrator views her work as public service, aims to put patients in the center of the healthcare decision-making process, and hopes to curb healthcare costs.

At the end of July, CMS published its annual proposals for regulatory changes to the Medicare physician fee schedule (PFS).