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Mississippi among worst in racial health disparities, new report …

WEBby Will Stribling, Mississippi Today November 26, 2021. An extensive report from the Commonwealth Fund has found deep-seated racial health disparities in all 50 states — with many more pronounced in Mississippi than anywhere else in the nation.. Across 24 measures graded in a Health Equity Scorecard, Mississippi ranked near the …

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A nonprofit beat the health department to win a key grant for …

WEBby Isabelle Taft, Mississippi Today April 29, 2022. For the first time since the launch of a federal grant to expand reproductive health care decades ago, the state health department won't be running the program in Mississippi.

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Mississippi’s medical marijuana application portal already has …

WEBby Sara DiNatale, Mississippi Today June 6, 2022. Mississippi’s medical marijuana license portal is shy of a week old but more than 1,800 people have already registered for online accounts to apply for licenses, the state Department of Health announced Monday.

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Need to Get Plan B or an HIV Test Online

WEBTwelve of the largest drug stores in the U.S. sent shoppers’ sensitive health information to Facebook or other platforms, according to an investigation by The Markup and KFF Health News

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Mississippi ranks as the unhealthiest state in the entire country

WEBby Devna Bose, Mississippi Today June 22, 2023. For yet another year, Mississippi’s health system performance has been deemed the worst in the country.. The comprehensive annual report from the Commonwealth Fund, a private health care research foundation, ranked Mississippi as one of the worst states for a number of health …

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Millions were supposed to go to Mississippi’s hospitals. Getting …

WEBby Devna Bose, Mississippi Today May 31, 2023. What should have been a lifeline for Mississippi’s struggling hospitals is proving to be out of reach for the facilities that need it the most.

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State Board of Health names Dr. Daniel P. Edney as new State …

WEBby Will Stribling, Mississippi Today May 25, 2022. The Mississippi State Board of Health announced Wednesday morning that Dr. Daniel P. Edney will be the new State Health Officer of the Mississippi State Department of Health.

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Data Dive: The state of mental health in Mississippi

WEBFeatures & News posted by Hattiesburg.Com on Hattiesburg.com. by Nigel Dent, Mississippi Today May 28, 2022. In March 2022, Mental Health America released its annual report on the state of mental health across the United States. Mississippi Today has aggregated data specific to the Magnolia State.

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Inside the contract dispute between Mississippi’s largest hospital …

WEBby Will Stribling, Mississippi Today March 9, 2022. Tens of thousands of patients at Mississippi’s largest hospital and its clinics will be on the hook for higher out-of-pocket costs if an agreement with the state’s largest private insurer isn’t soon reached.

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WEBBrandon Presley is not ruling out another campaign for governor. by Bobby Harrison, Mississippi TodayNovember 9, 2023Democrat Brandon Presley’s first statewide campaign might not be his last.Fresh off Posted on 11/10/2023.

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Food insecurity and food deserts in the US: A research roundup …

WEBby Naseem S. Miller, The Journalist's Resource September 27, 2022. On Sept. 28, the White House is hosted a conference on hunger, nutrition and health -- the second conference of its kind in five decades -- and introduced a 40-page national strategy as a roadmap toward the goal of ending hunger and increasing healthy eating by 2030.. …

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At least 22 Mississippi hospitals were out of ICU beds last week

WEBby Will Stribling, Mississippi Today August 25, 2021. At least 22 hospitals in Mississippi had no open intensive care unit beds last week as a surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations due to the delta variant pressing the state’s healthcare system to …

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State’s first family medicine obstetrics fellowship hopes to increase

WEB“There’s a big difference between licensure and credentials,” Stephens, a family medicine physician at EC Health Net in Meridian, said. While the licensure board allows physicians to practice according to their training without restriction, physicians also need to apply for malpractice insurance coverage, which requires proving competence …

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‘Very concerned about our patients’: Inside the final days of

WEBby Kate Royals, Mississippi Today September 23, 2022. Aiden Robinson of Brandon might look a lot different today if not for the care he received at the JMS Burn and Reconstruction Center in Jackson in 2019.

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Merit Health Central CEO, like many of its services, exits for the

WEBby Kate Royals, Mississippi Today January 30, 2023. Merit Health Central's chief executive officer David Henry is leaving the south Jackson hospital to take the helm at Merit Health Madison following the reduction and relocation of many of the hospital's services to the company's suburban facilities like Merit Health River Oaks.

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Five years after Flint water crisis, mental health problems persist

WEBby Naseem S. Miller, The Journalist's Resource December 20, 2022. On April 25, 2014, the city of Flint, Michigan, changed its municipal water supply source from the Detroit-supplied water coming from Lake Huron …

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‘Tate Reeves doesn’t understand’: Hospital CEO slams governor for

WEBby Taylor Vance, Mississippi Today July 13, 2023. GREENVILLE — Hours after yet another Mississippi hospital announced it was laying off workers this year, the leader of a hospital in the Mississippi Delta criticized Republican Gov. Tate Reeves for refusing to expand Medicaid access to the working poor.

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