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Weeks after a Jackson-based hospital announced the closure of its behavioral services unit, two metro-area hospitals are too full to accept psychiatric patients. Both the University of Mississippi Medical Center and Merit Health Central have repeatedly been on psychiatric diversion – meaning neither are accepting new patients – since July 4. It’s not clear when [...]

Both the University of Mississippi Medical Center and Merit Health Central have repeatedly been on psychiatric diversion since July 4.

The bosses of two of the largest hospitals in Mississippi announced they will soon be stepping down. See why, and who will replace them.

The CEOs of two of the state’s largest hospital systems are resigning.  Scott Kashman, head of St. Dominic Memorial Hospital in Jackson, and Tiffany Murdock, head of Singing River Health System on the Gulf Coast, have both announced they are leaving their positions. According to spokespeople at both health systems, the CEOs’ decisions were made [...]

The CEO of St. Dominic Memorial Hospital in Jackson will be resigning after holding the position for less than two years. Scott Kashman’s resignation comes at the heels of the recent closure of St. Dominic’s behavioral health services and layoffs of 5.5 percent of its workforce. The hospital stated in a...

Many hospitals in Louisiana and across the Gulf South, strained by treating thousands of COVID-19 patients, are discharging as many patients as possible, diverting those in critical care to safer areas, and reducing staff ahead of Hurricane Ida’s landfall Sunday night.