![]() ‘The funding just isn’t there’: Yazoo health department reopens just two days a week.In last ditch effort to stay open, Holly Springs hospital ends inpatient care.North Mississippi health system announces layoffs.Memorial Hospital in Gulfport lays off nearly 100 employees.Health care giant with dozens of facilities in Mississippi announces layoffs.Dominic lays off 5.5% of its workforce, halts mental health services Jackson area’s only inpatient hospice facility closes.Vicksburg hospital, evicted by Merit Health, is now closed.Below are just a few of Mississippi Today’s headlines since Edney issued that warning: We have a spectrum of hospitals that literally see their drop-dead date ahead of them if something does not happen.”Įdney, in fact, has been desperately working to sound this alarm for months now, telling the State Board of Health in November 2022 that the crisis was worsening “and no one is coming to the rescue.”īoy, was that an accurate prophecy. Daniel Edney put it bluntly a couple weeks ago on a radio program: “No one is knocking it out of the park right now. They’ve slashed health care services, laid off staff or even closed doors permanently just to make ends meet. Hospital leaders are having to make life-changing decisions about how they can balance their budgets. Right now, no Mississippi hospital - large or small, urban or rural, private or public - is immune from potentially debilitating financial concerns. Mississippi’s hospital system is failing, and as campaigns really begin to share their ideas and solutions with voters, just one single candidate for high office, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Brandon Presley, has focused meaningful attention on the crisis. Jason White, who does have a Republican primary challenger for his House seat early next month, has been a complete non-factor in the 2023 cycle. Speaker of the House Philip Gunn isn’t running for reelection and has been missing in action the past few weeks. Never mind the fact that at least 200,000 working Mississippians cannot afford doctor visits and dying hospitals are underwater having to cover those bills. Chris McDaniel appear most focused on out-flanking each other on the right and arguing over who is the truer conservative Republican. Delbert Hosemann and his Republican primary challenger state Sen. 6, would rather voters think about problems that apparently don’t exist in Mississippi like trans athletes and the influence of national liberals on our state’s policies - not the fact that dozens of hospitals are on the brink of closure. Tate Reeves, who faces two Republican primary opponents on Aug. Yet with Mississippi’s major statewide primary election less than three weeks away, only one candidate for an office that could do anything about it is even acknowledging its existence. The hospital crisis has emerged as the state’s most dire problem. Below is a political analysis column by Adam Ganucheau:
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