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CORINTH — On a bright and blustery afternoon in late February, healthcare and community leaders throughout north Mississippi gathered at Magnolia Regional Health Center in Corinth to celebrate breaking ground on a new 17,000-square-foot comprehensive cancer care facility. The facility is slated to be completed by Thanksgiving and open by the end of November.

“With the addition of The Cancer Center at Magnolia, Magnolia Regional Health Center continues to demonstrate its commitment to providing patients across Northeast Mississippi with the latest advances in cancer care,” said Magnolia Regional CEO Rick Napper. “We’re extremely excited about breaking ground at The Cancer Center at Magnolia.”

The Cancer Center at Magnolia will provide state-of-the-art radiation therapy technology, including Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) and Image Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT). Integrated medical oncology and chemotherapy services, clinical research offices, and supportive care services and resources for patients and their families will also be featured.

Specifically, supportive care services will include nutritional counseling, social work, financial counseling, spiritual counseling, support groups, palliative care and pain management. Resources featured will include a cancer library, wigs, prostheses, screening and prevention programs and cancer care navigation.

West Clinic of Memphis will provide medical oncology services; Radiation Oncology of North Mississippi will provide radiation oncology services.
“The West Clinic is pleased to expand our relationship with Magnolia Regional Health Center in being the provider of medical oncology and hematology services in the new cancer center. The new center is consistent with our longstanding commitment to high quality, patient-centered care,” said Steve Coplon, CEO of The West Clinic. The West Clinic has been serving cancer patients in Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, and the surrounding region for nearly 30 years.

The Cancer Center at Magnolia will enable physicians, hospital staff and supportive care professionals to collaborate and focus on patient care and satisfaction, noted Napper, adding that complete information on prevention, screenings and cancer care education will also be available.

“The Cancer Center at Magnolia has been integrated with a patient satisfaction process that is pushing the envelope of a new model of patient-centered care,” said Napper.

Located in Corinth, Magnolia Regional was founded in 1965 as Magnolia Hospital, which originated as the consolidation of the 68-bed Community Hospital and the 30-bed Corinth Hospital.

Today, the non-profit city- and county-owned healthcare facility is based from a 164-bed hospital on a sprawling campus in Alcorn County that serves 25 specialties to patients in four northeast Mississippi Counties and three west Tennessee Counties. Accredited by the Joint Commission, Magnolia Regional is one of only two hospitals statewide named among the Best Places to Work in Mississippi.

Within the last couple of years, Magnolia Regional has begun offering open-heart services, leading to improved care and the creation of over 100 new jobs, and added two new cardiovascular operating room suites, along with a new specialty cardiovascular intensive care unit. Hospital leaders also launched into a partnership with Kentucky-based Pikeville College School of Osteopathic Medicine (PCSOM) to make Magnolia Regional a core teaching site for Pikeville’s
third-year osteopathic medicine students.



May 2008

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