Mississippi news and information

A federal judge on Friday sentenced a doctor to 20 years in prison and ordered her to repay nearly $8.2 million for fraud at a former Mississippi cancer center she ran. U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III said he was "appalled" at how Dr. Meera Sachdeva treated patients at a vulnerable time of...
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Health officials say flu season is off to its earliest start in nearly 10 years — and it could be a bad one.
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Some states would see savings while others would experience cost increases as a result of the health reform law's provision to expand Medicaid, according to a report from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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FORT MYERS, Fla.—Acadia Healthcare Co., Brentwood, Tenn., purchased Park Royal Hospital, Fort Myers, for about $33.4 million in cash and assumed debt. The 76-bed psychiatric hospital, which opened in March, can be expanded to 114 beds within the existing building, according to an...
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North Mississippi Health Services is among the four winners of the 2012 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, which recognizes organizations for innovation, improvement and leadership.
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MADISONVILLE, Ky.—Baptist Health, Louisville, Ky., acquired Trover Health System, Madisonville, which becomes its eighth hospital in the state. Trover, which includes the 177-bed Regional Medical Center of Hopkins County, will be renamed Baptist Health Madisonville. Financial terms...
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Mississippi needs to produce more physicians and provide incentives for them to work in rural areas, says a new report that focuses on expanding the business of healthcare in one of the poorest, sickest states in the nation.
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Mississippi has long been one of the sickest and poorest states in America, with some of the highest rates of obesity, diabetes and heart disease and more than 1 in 7 residents without insurance. And so you might think Mississippi would jump at the prospect of billions of federal dollars to expand...
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At a whopping 10,879 employees, Baptist Memorial Health Care covers Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas with 14 hospitals, a college of health sciences, a home health company and physician practices.
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RICHARDSON, Texas—Dallas-based Methodist Health System broke ground Sept. 27 on Methodist Richardson Medical Center-Bush/Renner, a $120 million outpatient hospital in Richardson. The new facility will be an expansion of the health system's existing 147-bed acute-care hospital,...
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