Medical Care
The University Hospitals and Health System are the teaching hospitals for all Medical Center education programs and a 722-bed diagnostic and treatment referral center for the entire state. The hospital medical staffs are appointed from the Schools of Medicine and Dentistry. The system includes three hospitals: University Hospital (adults and critical care patients), the Blair E. Batson Hospital for Children and the Winfred L. Wiser Hospital for Women and Infants.
Inpatient admissions total about 27,000 annually. Outpatient and emergency visits number more than 500,000 visits every year. University Hospitals and Health System is the only designated Level 1 trauma center in the state.
Specialized health care services include an artificial kidney unit; coronary, intensive care and stroke units; the only transplant center in Mississippi; bone marrow transplant units for adults and children; cardiopulmonary and work evaluation laboratories; a linear accelerator; an MRI; computerized tomography for brain and total body scanning; transcranial Doppler; bi-plane angiography; electrophysiology; a sleep disorders laboratory; radiosurgery; an in vitro fertilization program; and the state's only children's hospital.
University Hospitals and Health System is one of three original test sites in the United States for the interventional MRI, an imaging system that allows physicians to do procedures while viewing the targeted area in real-time images.
Health professional students also get clinical experience at the G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery VA Medical Center and the Methodist Rehabilitation Center and at community hospitals throughout the state.
The Medical Center is the anchor tenant in the Jackson Medical Mall Thad Cochran Center, occupying more than half of the mall's space. More than 100,000 Mississippians are seen in the hospital's specialty clinics which are located there. The hospitals' renal care clinic is located at the mall, as well as the Medical Center's Cancer Institute.
Holmes County Hospital and Clinics includes the 80-bed Holmes County Long-Term Care Center-Durant, with 20 of those beds in the Alzheimer's unit and a 25-critical-access-bed hospital in Lexington with swing-bed availability. A 10-bed GPU unit and the Rural Health Clinic are also located in the hospital.