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Board grants 75-mile exception for Medcentris regional medical director to supervise wound-care midlevel providers
Summary
The executive committee approved a waiver of the board's 75-mile practice-location rule that allows Dr. Harriet Jones, a regional medical director for Medcentris, to collaborate with nurse practitioners in North Mississippi while she remains based in Flowood.
The Mississippi State Board of Medical Licensure executive committee voted to grant an exception to the board's 75-mile residency rule for Dr. Harriet Jones, the regional medical director for Medcentris's Home to Heal wound-management program, enabling her to provide collaborative oversight of nurse practitioners in North Mississippi during a temporary staffing gap.
The committee considered Jones's request because the previously identified medical director for the North Mississippi territory has not been licensed; Jones asked to serve temporarily while the board-reviewed…
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