Featured UMMC Doctors seek alternatives to opioid prescriptions
Mississippi’s statistics on opioid use resulting in addiction and deaths are bad, but the failure of data to deter abuse is also troubling. A team...
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New hospital to open in Oxford
by Alex Paton
After three years, a new Baptist hospital is opening its doors in Oxford “The transitioning of new hospitals is always driven by the need for...
Change of ACA plans could hurt Mississippi’s rural hospitals
Last week, the U.S. Senate GOP effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act failed. Related: Skinny repeal of Obamacare fails in the Senate While...
House Majority Whip Scalise discharged from hospital
by Sarah Ulmer
Steve Scalise has been discharged from MedStar Washington Hospital on Wednesday. ...
Hospital Association head discusses Baptist health care merger
Baptist Memorial Health Care, headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee and Mississippi Baptist Health Systems of Jackson, Mississippi announced Monday the completion of a merger between the...
Telehealth program proposal in Washington
by Sarah Ulmer
WASHINGTON, D.C.- U.S. Senators have introduced a bipartisan measure to expand rural telehealth services by allowing non-rural hospitals and health-care providers to work with rural...
Natchez Hospital Caught Up in Federal Lawsuit From Prior Administration
by kim
By John Mott Coffey, with News Mississippi affiliate WQNZ NATCHEZ, Miss.–Adams County could get some money from a federal lawsuit alleging hospital administrators’ mismanagement of...
BB King Update: “I’m Feeling Much Better”, Blues Legend Leaves Hospital
by kim
Las VEGAS, Nev.–The KIng has left the building. A similar message boomed from the speakers after every Elvis concert, but a man who bears the...
Blues Legend, Miss. Native B.B. King in a Las Vegas Hospital
by kim
PHOTO: B.B. King at his Homecoming performance in 2012 Las VEGAS, Nev.–Blues legend and Mississippi native B.B. King is in a Las Vegas hospital after...
Six Central Mississippi Hospitals Join for New Hospital System
by Sarah Ulmer
JACKSON, Miss– Central Mississippi Medical Center, River Region Medical Center, River Oaks Hospital, Women’s Hospital, Crossgates River Oaks Hospital, and Madison River Oaks Hospital join to...