Poll: 80% of Mississippians favor Medicaid expansion
A wide majority of Mississippians across partisan and demographic lines support expanding Medicaid to provide health coverage for the working poor, according to a newly released Mississippi Today/Siena College poll. The poll showed 80% of respondents — including 70% of Republicans — either strongly agree or somewhat agree the state should “accept federal funds to […]
State announces infant’s COVID-19 death amid modest rise in Mississippi cases
A Mississippi infant recently died due to complications from COVID-19, the state health department announced Wednesday. This marks the first pediatric COVID death in the state since February 2022, state epidemiologist Dr. Paul Byers told State Board of Health members at their meeting Wednesday. This is the 14th death of a child under the age […]
Mississippi physicians say health care crisis ‘engulfs us,’ urge action
As emergency federal pandemic funds for hospitals are dwindling, the health care crisis in Mississippi is progressing, according to a statement put out Tuesday by the Mississippi State Medical Association. The physicians group is calling on lawmakers and state leaders to act quickly to offset the burden of hospitals in the state caring for uninsured […]
Photos: Mississippi Rural Health Conference 2022
The 27th annual Mississippi Rural Health Conference 2022 took place at the Hilton in Jackson, Miss., Thursday, November 17, 2022. Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi Today Medical students visit booths during the 27th annual Mississippi Rural Health Conference 2022 at the Hilton in Jackson, Miss., Thursday, November 17, 2022. Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi Today Wahnee Sherman, executive director […]
As health infrastructure shrinks, a daughter of the Delta cares for her community
To reach Gunnison, Mississippi, from Cleveland, the quickest path – though not the route with the best-paved streets – takes you off Highway 8, down miles of narrow roads slicing through some of the most fertile land on earth. In early December, the fields are still but not empty. Silvery water pools in gashes in […]
UMMC researchers join fight against gun and domestic violence
Gun and domestic violence research at the University of Mississippi Medical Center is seeking to better understand the causes of both and find ways to help those scarred by their impact. Two federal grants awarded in September totaling $7.5 million from the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services […]
Raw oysters harvested in Texas linked to multistate virus outbreak
The Mississippi State Department of Health has joined an investigation into a multistate outbreak of a contagious virus linked to raw oysters from Texas. So far, at least nine cases of norovirus have been reported in the state linked to raw oysters distributed to Mississippi restaurants. The Health Department says additional cases may be identified. […]
Gov. Reeves, other governors ask Biden to end COVID-19 health emergency
Gov. Tate Reeves has joined with 24 other states to ask President Joe Biden to end the Federal Public Health Emergency for COVID-19, which would allow the state to remove some people from Medicaid coverage. First declared in January 2020 under the Trump Administration, the public health emergency gives health care providers flexibility in how […]
Con los hospitales bajo presión, los funcionarios de salud ruegan a las personas que se vacunen contra el COVID y la gripe
Read this story in English: With hospitals under strain, health officials beg people to get COVID, flu vaccines Los hospitales regionales más grandes en Mississippi, donde los pacientes más enfermos suelen recibir atención, están llenos, y los funcionarios de salud estatales están rogando a los habitantes de Mississippi que se vacunen contra el COVID-19 y […]
Departamento de salud estatal se prepara para crisis hospitalaria inminente
Read this story in English: State health department braces for impending hospital crisis A medida que la crisis de atención médica de Mississippi empeora y amenaza con cerrar de manera inminente los hospitales en el delta del Mississippi, el Departamento de Salud del estado está tomando medidas para prepararse para el desastre inminente. El Departamento […]