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JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – A new space at Children’s of Mississippi now has blue skies, a rainbow, and interactive digital boards of games, puzzles and drawing for patients. Laughs 4 Life helped raise more than $200,000 through sold-out comedy shows in Hattiesburg. The funds helped create the Laughs 4 Life Smile Room on the fifth […]. Local Mississippi Breaking News Story from CBS 12 New WJTV, your Jackson, MS news leader

Century Club Charities, the host organization of the annual Sanderson Farm’s Championship in Jackson, has announced a $1 million donation to Friends of Children’s Hospital. The seven-figure gift came as a result of the proceeds that were accumulated throughout the state’s lone PGA Tournament back in October. The charity group...

The New Orleans nonprofit Hogs for the Cause will fund an updated hospital space for children with cancer through a $1.5 million gift to Children’s of Mississippi. 

New Orleans nonprofit Hogs for the Cause has announced plans to fund an updated hospital space for children diagnosed with cancer through a $1.5 million gift to Children’s of Mississippi in Jackson. The donation, which was raised through the annual Hogs for the Cause barbecue and music festival, will fund...

The March inspection of the University of Mississippi Medical Center for its burn center designation showed the health system failed to fully meet almost a third of criteria required to host the state’s next burn center, though it was recently deemed qualified to do so anyway.  UMMC communications officials refused to answer Mississippi Today’s questions […]. Local Mississippi Breaking News Story from CBS 12 New WJTV, your Jackson, MS news leader

The surgeon on the team that performed UMMC’s March site visit said the results of their site visit are not uncommon.

The March inspection of the University of Mississippi Medical Center for its burn center designation showed the health system failed to fully meet almost a third of criteria required to host the state’s next burn center, though it was recently deemed qualified to do so anyway. UMMC communications officials refused to answer Mississippi Today’s questions [...]