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Ribbon-cutting ceremony held at Diamond Grove Center to celebrate its new 24-bed expansion project
LOUISVILLE, Miss. (WTOK) - Diamond Grove Center’s ribbon-cutting ceremony marked the official opening of its new 24-bed building, which will increase bed capacity and access to quality behavioral health care in Mississippi. With this new expansion, it will alleviate emergency department capacity strains, operate an efficient behavioral health facility,...
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First West Wing at SCRMC reopens after 18-month renovation
LAUREL, Miss. (WDAM) - A multimillion-dollar renovation of the first floor of the West Wing of South Central Regional Medical Center (SCRMC) is complete. Hospital administrators, medical staff and local leaders gathered Friday to cut a ribbon to reopen the First West Wing. It closed 18 months ago for renovation.
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Regency Hospital in Meridian to Close by March 13
Regency Hospital, a 40-bed facility in Meridian that specialized in respiratory care for medically complex patients, will close on or about March 13, its owner announced. The hospital is located on the second floor of Baptist Anderson Regional Medical Center-South. Owned by Pennsylvania-based Select Medical, one of the largest operators...
Mississippi Today
Regency Hospital in Meridian to close by mid-March
Regency Hospital, a Meridian facility that primarily provided extended care to patients with respiratory disorders, will close on or about March 13, according to its website. The 40-bed, long-term acute care hospital is on the second floor of Baptist Anderson Regional Medical Center-South. It focused on weaning medically complex patients off of mechanical ventilation and helping them breathe independently.
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Mississippi health system sets record with Epic go-live
Laurel, Miss.-based South Central Regional Medical Center has set the record for the most groups to simultaneously go live on Epic’s diagnostic lab data exchange platform. Nine organizations signed on to Aura as part of South Central Regional Medical Center’s Jan. 31 Epic install, besting the previous high of six, according to a Feb. 17 health system news release shared with Becker’s. Aura integrates specialty lab tests and device orders into providers’ Epic workflows.
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Inside 1 hospital’s ‘Amazing Race’ to Epic
Laurel, Miss.-based South Central Regional Medical Center and its consortium partners are finalizing preparations to launch a new Epic EHR system, with a Jan. 31 go-live date approaching. The transition includes South Central Regional Medical Center, Covington County Hospital, Magee General Hospital, Simpson General Hospital and Smith County Emergency Hospital,...
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Smith County Hospital sees about 3,000 patients in 1st year of service
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What’s new at Performance Therapy Pelahatchie on referrals
Performance Therapy Pelahatchie has been serving the Pelahatchie, Puckett, Pisgah, and Morton areas since February 2019, with physical therapy services such as total joint procedures including balance and gait training; lower back; post-surgical; and sports injuries. The Pelahatchie clinic currently has three therapists including Micah Brooke Smith, director; Kristen Shivers;...
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Local doctor reacts to new, FDA ‘black box’ removal on hormone replacement therapy
LAUREL, Miss. (WDAM) - In recent days, the United States Food and Drug Administration removed the black box warning for hormone replacement therapy. “A black box warning is commonly used on medications that could cause life-threatening or severe, adverse effects”, said Dr. Robert Desantis, South Central Regional Medical Center/Clinic obstetrician-gynecologist.
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Baptist’s Mobile Mammography Unit
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Photo Album: Premier Medical Group Celebrates Grand Opening of New Carthage Facility
Premier Medical Group and Premier Rehab held a grand opening Tuesday afternoon for their new location at 300 S. Pearl St. in Carthage. The new, larger facility offers expanded space and upgraded amenities for both staff and patients. Doctors, nurses, and team members say they’re excited about the move and...
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Starting October 2026, residents will have a $13 increase to their water bills.
That extra $13 is called a capital recovery fee, which will help pay for investments in assets like plants and pipes; however, annual rates will drop to seven percent. “We’ve all seen cities that didn’t invest in their wastewater infrastructure, and what happens. We don’t want that to happen to us. We want to keep making the progress we’ve been making,“ said Public Works Director David Hodge. ”We have a long way to go, but we’ve made a lot of progress. The rates may have to go up because it’s part of a larger strategy to fund future investments in our water and sewer system."