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The health sciences campus occupies a 168-acre tract of University-owned land in the heart of Jackson. The original eight-story building is now the nucleus of a major academic health sciences complex. Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Dentistry and Health Related Professions (SHRP) all have their own buildings on campus.

Between 1988 and the mid-1990s, five construction projects were completed: the University Medical Pavilion; the Ronald McDonald House, a hotel-like accommodation for families of pediatric patients; the Mississippi Children’s Cancer Clinic, which houses all outpatient treatment facilities for pediatric hematology and oncology patients; a state-of-the-art laundry; and the Arthur C. Guyton Laboratory Research Building.

From 1997 to 1999, six new buildings and two parking garages opened as part of a $211 million campus construction program -- the largest expansion package in the history of higher education in the state at the time. Funding came from self-generated revenue, private donations, and the Mississippi Legislature. The new Blair E. Batson Hospital for Children opened in 1997. A new imaging center opened the same year, housing state-of-the-art radiology facilities, including an interventional MRI. In 1999, four major new buildings opened: the Winfred L. Wiser Hospital for Women & Infants, the School of Health Related Professions, the expanded Christine L. Oglevee Building housing the School of Nursing, and the Norman C. Nelson Student Union.

A second construction phase is now underway. It includes the Wallace Conerly Hospital for Critical Care, already occupied, a new 256-bed adult hospital, now under construction, a two-story expansion of the children’s hospital, a classroom addition and an expansion to the Arthur C. Guyton Research Complex. When the adult hospital is completed, early in 2005, all of the Medical Center’s original hospital beds will have been replaced.

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This page last modified on August 21, 2007