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A spokesperson for the Shelby County Health Department said there are no HIV clusters at high schools in Shelby County, though infection rates among young people are “alarmingly high.”
Baptist Memorial Hospital-DeSoto has no psychiatric unit, so some patients go to jail to await publicly funded mental health treatment.
To report this story, we obtained DeSoto County Sheriff’s Department logs from 2021 through 2023 that showed when deputies were called to two local hospitals to take people into custody
A drive-by shooting in Columbus left two men injured. Two men arrived at Baptist Memorial Hospital with gunshot wounds to the hand and leg.
The Golden Crest Chapter of the Links offered free health screenings to the community. People got to get their blood glucose, blood pressure, and bone density levels checked.