Can Iran's Health-House Model Help Mississippi Reduce Disparities? Health-care stakeholders are watching Mississippi's experience with a system created in Iran in the 1980s closely to see if it's worth promoting nationwide. Caroline Cournoyer | February 2013 This past summer, The New York Times published a fascinating article about an agency in Mississippi called HealthConnect that is working to reduce admissions to the Central Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, where most of the region’s poor go for basic, and costly, primary medical care. The agency models itself after a health-care system created in the 1980s by, of all places, the Republic of Iran.