Community project funding/congressionally directed spending - construction - the multispecialty center will be a multi-story, mixed-use healthcare facility adjacent to the hospital and will offer…

Community project funding/congressionally directed spending - construction - the multispecialty center will be a multi-story, mixed-use healthcare facility adjacent to the hospital and will offer expanded services including pediatric operational services for south mississippi. The center will accommodate several new and vital programs including a state-of-the-art outpatient surgery center for pediatrics, a post-anesthesia care unit (PACU) to support pediatric specialty, subspecialty and adult surgical care, some of which are currently unavailable in south mississippi, and an expanded inpatient rehab facility. Additionally, the center will house new telemedicine and residency programs. Memorial and its clinics are unable to surgically treat pediatric patients, which requires south mississippi families to travel out of state for treatment. The center will provide the needed facility space and components for memorial to perform pediatric outpatient surgery, thereby preventing further healthcare leakage to neighboring states and will allow families to be treated in their own community. Memorial has partnered with a large mississippi academic and medical facility to supply these services and allow children and their families to stay home to receive care in their community. The facility will house a 60-bed inpatient rehab facility which is critical to a physician's ability to ensure continuity of care, from wellness to primary and emergency care to acute care and ultimately to rehab or long-term care. Memorial currently has 33 beds that are frequently at capacity forcing families to leave the lower six counties for treatment; the additional beds for the inpatient rehab facility are critical to memorial's ability to serve south mississippi in the future. Telemedicine capabilities, which will be housed in the center, are a component of the memorial virtual medicine program (MVM) and would provide direct care to residents in their homes and places of employment, covering the entirety of south mississippi. The center will FE ature an auditorium, high-technology classrooms, and administrative space for the community to establish outreach programs. Caseworkers, educators, nurse navigators, clinicians and support staff will be able to address current and future social determinants that shape the typical health issues faced by mississippians.