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Photos: Carthage Quick Care Pharmacy Hosts Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
A new locally owned pharmacy is open in Carthage, offering residents another option for convenient prescription services. Carthage Quick Care Pharmacy, located next to Premier Medical Group on South Pearl St., hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony Friday, March 20 at 10 a.m. Several community members, along with city and county officials, attended the event to show their support for the new business.
WTOK-TV
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,...
WDAM-TV
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.
beckershospitalreview.com
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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WDAM-TV
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