Phillips Named Administrator of Jefferson Davis Community Hospital

Forrest General Hospital and Jefferson Davis Community Hospital and Extended Care Facility are pleased to announce that Charlie Phillips has been named as Administrator for the Jefferson Davis County facilities. In this role, Phillips will drive Jefferson Davis Community Hospital and Extended Care Facility towards world class healthcare through a focus on quality, safety, compassion, community partnership and financial strength.

Prior to joining Jefferson Davis Community Hospital and Extended Care Facility, Phillips served as an administrator in long-term care facilities and continuing care retirement communities and as a director in acute care hospitals. During his career, Phillips has been instrumental in developing high performing organizations. A graduate of the University of West Alabama and a native of Alabama, Phillips joins Jefferson Davis Community Hospital and Extended Care Facility by way of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Woman’s Hospital’s Laboratory Earns AABB and CAP Accreditation

Woman’s Hospital’s Laboratory Services Department has been re-accredited by the College of American Pathologists (CAP) and received its first accreditation by the American Association of Blood Banks (AABB). The voluntary inspections and subsequent accreditations follow an intensive onsite assessment of policies, procedures and practices of all aspects of laboratory testing and anatomic pathology. These unannounced surveys foster constant preparedness in hospitals.

AABB is an international, not-for-profit association representing individuals and institutions involved in the field of transfusion medicine and cellular therapies. The association is committed to improving health by developing and delivering standards, accreditation and educational programs that focus on optimizing patient and donor care and safety.

The hospital’s lab was commended on its excellence by all the inspectors who were impressed with the hospital’s quality of work processes, reporting methods and results oriented approaches.

NMMC Awarded 3-Year Carf Accreditation

CARF International announced that North Mississippi Medical Center has been accredited for three years for its inpatient adult rehabilitation and stroke specialty programs.

The inpatient adult rehabilitation program has been accredited by CARF since 2005.

This accreditation is the highest level that can be awarded to an organization and shows NMMC’s substantial conformance to the CARF standards. An organization receiving a three-year accreditation has put itself through a rigorous peer review process and has demonstrated to a team of surveyors during an on-site visit that its programs and services are of the highest quality, measurable and accountable.

The Rehabilitation Institute is housed on the west wing of NMMC’s first floor. The 29-bed inpatient unit is staffed with a team of professionals who provide three to five hours of intensive therapy daily to help patients reach their individual goals. Patients are cared for by board-certified physiatrists (physicians specialized in physical medicine and rehabilitation), as well as case managers, physical therapists, occupational therapists, social workers, rehabilitation nurses, speech-language pathologists, recreational therapist and a clinical psychologist. Patients can be referred to the Rehabilitation Institute by physicians, rehabilitation agencies, insurance companies, home care agencies, patients and/or families.

UMMC Neurology Chair Elected To Academic Association

Dr. Alexander P. Auchus, professor and McCarty Chair of Neurology, has been elected to the American Neurological Association, the world’s oldest neurological society and one of the earliest academic societies in the United States.

Auchus also has been certified in the subspecialty of geriatric neurology by the United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties.

Auchus, founding co-director of UMMC’s Comprehensive Stroke Center, holds degrees from Johns Hopkins University and Washington University in St. Louis and is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Neurology and of the American Geriatrics Society.

Hattiesburg Clinic Welcomes Thompson

Ear, Nose & Throat, Associates, a service of Hattiesburg Clinic, is pleased to welcome T. Luke Thompson, M.D.

Thompson holds a medical degree from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in Shreveport, La. He completed a general surgery internship and otolaryngology residency at Tulane University in New Orleans, La. Thompson also completed a facial plastic and reconstructive surgery fellowship at Hedgewood Surgical Center in New Orleans, La.

His professional memberships include the American College of Surgeons, American Association of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, American Academy of Otolaryngic Allergy and American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery.

Thompson joins Michael J. Hammett, M.D.; James M. Hodges, M.D.; and John D. Sobiesk, M.D.

Delta Regional Medical Center Recognized For Partnership With IQH

Delta Regional Medical Center has been recognized for participating with Information & Quality Healthcare (IQH), the state’s Medicare Quality Improvement Organization, in a project focused on reducing the rate of healthcare-associated Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) infection. Shown are Amy Walker, RN, MSN, Vice President of Quality, and Melinda Grubb RN, CCRN, Infection Prevention Nurse, at the hospital. MRSA is a bacterial infection highly resistant to some antibiotics.

Tur partnership with IQH allows DRMC access to nation-wide resources and best practices all developed and proven to positively impact patient safety and other key clinical quality initiatives across the continuum of patient care at DRMC.  IQH recognized the hospital for its cooperation in the project which is a part of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) national quality improvement program.

Anderson/Neshoba General Affiliation

In July Neshoba County General Hospital – Nursing Home announces that it has officially entered into an affiliation with Anderson Regional Medical Center. This affiliation stems from the common objective of providing compassionate, efficient and effective healthcare to the people of central Mississippi. Through mutual cooperation, the healthcare expertise, services and programs of Anderson Regional will now be allied with the healthcare expertise, services and programs of Neshoba General in such a manner that the patients and communities served by Neshoba General and Anderson Regional can benefit from the provision of optimum healthcare services at both organizations.

With the drastic changes in healthcare, Neshoba General’s board and management came to the conclusion that an affiliation would have the most effective benefit to the entire population of Neshoba County while maintaining independence and local governance explained Neshoba General’s CEO Lonnie Graeber.

Ray Humphreys, President & CEO of Anderson Regional, described the relationship in more depth, by stating that by no means is Anderson taking over or purchasing Neshoba General.

Jones Joins University Of Mississippi Medical Center

Dr. Harriet L. Jones, a board-certified, infectious-diseases-trained internist, has joined the University of Mississippi Medical Center as an associate professor in the Department of Medicine. She also has a dual appointment to the School of Nursing Advanced Practice Program.

Jones specializes in the treatment of patients with complicated wounds, soft-tissue infections, including osteomyelitis, and post-operative complications.

After receiving the B.S.N. from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1985, Jones earned the M.D. from UMMC in 1998. She completed residency training in internal medicine at UMMC in 2001 and served as a fellow in infectious diseases from 2001-03. She first joined the UMMC faculty as an assistant professor of medicine and surgery in 2003 and began the Outpatient Antimicrobial Service in the Division of Infectious Diseases.

In 2005, Jones joined River Oaks Hospital in Flowood as the sole physician and fulltime medical director of the Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine Center. She founded the Wound Management Group in 2008. In 2010, the group relocated its practice to Mississippi Baptist Medical Center in Jackson.

An active member of the Wound Healing Society, the American Professional Wound Care Association, the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine and the American Academy of Wound Care, Jones has authored or coauthored several articles for publications. She serves as a member of the editorial board for Today’s Wound Clinic.

Laura Singley Appointed Director of Women’s Services

Laura Singley, MSN, WHNP, has returned to Wesley Medical Center to lead the Women’s Services initiative for the hospital.  Singley has more than 20 years nursing experience in the field of women’s health and served as a patient educator for the Wesley Medical Center Birth Center when it opened in the mid 1990s.   

Singley has worked as a nurse in south Mississippi for the majority of her career and comes to Wesley Medical Center from South Central Regional Medical Center in Laurel.  She chose Wesley because of the company’s proven commitment to excellence in Women’s Services.

Singley earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing at the University of Southern Mississippi and was awarded a Masters of Science in Nursing at the University of Alabama, Birmingham.  She is a nationally certified Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner.

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