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The University of Mississippi Medical Center addresses the health care needs of the state in two ways: by providing the training for health professionals who will care for Mississippians and by direct care in the University Hospitals and Clinics.

The University Hospitals and Clinics 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. Inpatients total about 27,000 annually with more than 418,000 outpatient and emergency visits every year.

On the Medical Center campus, the University Hospitals and Clinics includes the University Hospital, Winfred L. Wiser Hospital for Women & Infants, Blair E. Batson Hospital for Children and, for faculty practice, the University Medical Pavilion. One mile west of campus, the Jackson Medical Mall houses the hospital's primary care clinics, UMC's ambulatory specialty clinics and the Jackson Heart Study offices. The Medical Center also owns and operates the 84-bed University Hospitals -- Holmes County in Lexington, Miss., and leases and operates the 60-bed University Hospital Nursing Home in Durant, Miss. The Medical Center is converting a 29-bed general hospital it owns in Durant to a long-term care facility.

The University is the only hospital in the state designated as a level 1 trauma center. Specialized hospital services include: an interventional MRI; the only level 3 neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in the state; separate medical, surgical, cardiac, neuroscience and pediatric ICUs; a heart station for diagnosis and treatment of heart disease; a heart failure clinic; heart, kidney, cornea and bone marrow transplant programs; a comprehensive stroke unit; state-of-the-art radiological imaging systems; a sleep disorders laboratory; an in vitro fertilization program; and special pharmaceutical services.

The Sonny V. Montgomery Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, adjacent to the campus, is the Medical Center's principal teaching affiliate. Medical Center students also gain experience at community hospitals throughout the state.

One hundred sixty-five of UMC's faculty and clinical staff physicians have been named as The Best Doctors in America, a peer review list based on a poll of physicians across the country.

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This page last modified on August 21, 2007