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Senate narrows UNMC teaching exemption, asks Health Department to study rural hospital options
Summary
The Mississippi Senate narrowed a teaching exemption for the University of Mississippi Medical Center to its Jackson campus footprint and directed the State Department of Health to study ways to expand psychiatric and in‑hospital dialysis services at small hospitals.
The Mississippi Senate amended a certificate‑of‑need measure to clarify and narrow a long‑standing teaching exemption for the University of Mississippi Medical Center and asked the State Department of Health to study options to expand certain services at small and rural hospitals.
The amendment draws a geographic rectangle around UMMC’s main Jackson campus and medical mall and preserves the medical center’s teaching exemption only within that footprint; projects elsewhere must follow the normal CON…
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