TUPELO ⢠As medical director for the NMMC-Tupelo Emergency Room Department, Dr. Val Serio witnessed the impact of COVID-19 firsthand.
As part of the COVID safety huddle, held daily or biweekly depending on patient surges and led by North Mississippi Health Services (NMHS) chief medical officer Dr. Jeremy Blanchard, Serio reported the daily or biweekly COVID-suspected patients coming through the emergency room, resources, planning for future surges and working with their physicians, nurses and physicians assistants to ensure they understood CDC guidelines with the changing medication regimens.
He remembers receiving the vaccine the first day it became available at the North Mississippi Medical Center (NMMC).
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AMORY â Through a memorandum of understanding with the City of Amory regarding the 340B plan, North Mississippi Medical Center Gilmore-Amory will use savings to help cover the cost of uncompensated and unreimbursed care for uninsured and low-income patients.
The board of aldermen recently approved for Mayor Brad Blalock to sign the memorandum of understanding between the city and hospital.
âUnder our agreement, the hospital is making a commitment to continue to provide health care to indigent, uninsured and underinsured residents of the City of Amory,â said city attorney Sam Griffie. âThe hospital also agrees to provide patients with emergency services, regardless of the patientâs ability to pay. The main benefit of the program, in my opinion, is that it helps the hospital provide outpatient drugs and services to low-income, uninsured and indigent individuals of our community.â
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The chase ended with a three-vehicle wreck and the suspect assaulting at least one Tupelo police officer.
Benjamin Lawrence Mangrum, 37, of 5368 Hargrove Road, Franklin, Tennessee, was booked into the Lee County Jail April 14 at 4:19 p.m. and charged with assaulting a police officer, felony fleeing, possession of a Schedule I drug and two misdemeanor traffic offenses â a tint violation and reckless driving.
Police spokesman Capt. Chuck McDougald said members of the Tupelo Police Department Street Crimes Unit attempted to stop a gold Infinity sedan for a traffic infraction on North Gloster just after 4 p.m. on Wednesday. According to police, the suspect fled north on Gloster, then took McCullough Boulevard to get on Highway 45 South. The chase then headed west on Main Street.