- Range of programs addressing state's doctor shortage
Mississippi has a shortage of doctors so critical that the state ranks 49th in the number of doctors per person. Visit Jackson, the Gulf Coast, Hattiesburg or DeSoto County (Southaven), though, and there'll be no signs of such a crisis. That's because the problem is in Mississippi's many rural counties....
- UM med center sees changes in leadership positions
JACKSON - The recent announcement of a change in the institution's top leadership by University of Mississippi Medical Center officials comes near the end of a year marked with retirements and unexpected losses. Last month, Dr. Wallace Conerly, UMC vice chancellor, announced the appointment of Dr. Daniel W. Jones, Langford ......
- Foreign doctors, nurses provide critical rural health care
Like many rural areas of Mississippi, Noxubee County has had a difficult time attracting enough physicians to meet the health care needs of the community. But currently the gap is being filled in large part by three foreign-born physicians. These physicians were attracted to the area by a government program ......
- People.
Ronald R. Lang, FHFMA, CPA (Northern California Chapter), has been named executive vice president and CFO, The Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio. He had been vice president, finance, Saint Mary's Health Network, Reno, Nevada. Long is the current chairman of the HFMA Board of Directors. Richard J. Henley, ......
- Through the eyes of his patients: for Cole Eye
Institute's Dr. Allen Roth, the biggest reward of his job is seeing
the smile on a satisfied patient.
For the Cleveland Clinic Cole Eye Institute's Dr. Allen Roth, Ophthalmology offers a physician the rare opportunity to improve a patient's quality of life. "We're specifically fixing problems in ophthalmology," Roth says. "In other areas of medicine you can't always do that. But here we can actually help a ......
- Foreign-trained physicians providing care around Mississippi
Even though the Newton Regional Hospital has the newest building in the state, the rural 30-bed facility had no luck recruiting American physicians. They have had luck, however, recruiting foreign-trained physicians through the J-1 Visa Waiver Program administered by the Mississippi State Board of Health.