Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 15 - Mississippi Department of Health › Part 8 - Office of Health Policy and Planning › Subpart 90 - Planning and Resource Development › Chapter 05 - Acute Care Facilities and Services Overview › Section 15-8-90-05-500 - General Medical/Surgical Hospitals

Current through June 25, 2024
When calculating the occupancy rate using total licensed
					 bed capacity, the overall occupancy rate drops to 36.26 percent. Table 5-1
					 shows the licensed Mississippi hospital beds by service areas.
These statistics indicate an average daily census in
					 Mississippi hospitals of 3,819.87. Seventy-four (74) of the state's hospitals
					 reported occupancy rates of less than forty percent (40%) during FY
					 2020.
Mississippi requires Certificate of Need (CON) review for
					 all projects that increase the bed complement of a health care facility or
					 exceed a capital expenditure threshold of $5 million for clinical services or
					 $10 million for non-clinical services. The law requires CON review regardless
					 of capital expenditure for the construction, development, or other
					 establishment of a new health care facility, including a replacement facility;
					 the relocation of a health care facility or any portion of the facility which
					 does not involve a capital expenditure and is more than 5,280 feet from the
					 main entrance of the facility; and a change of ownership of an existing health
					 care facility, unless the MSDH receives proper notification at least thirty
					 (30) days in advance. A health care facility that has ceased to treat patients
					 for a period of sixty (60) months or more must receive CON approval prior to
					 reopening. A CON is required for major medical equipment purchase if the
					 capital expenditure exceeds $1.5 million and is not a replacement of existing
					 medical equipment.
A statewide glut of licensed acute care beds complicates
					 planning for community hospital services. There are far more hospital beds than
					 needed. The average use of licensed beds has been less than fifty percent (50%
					 percent) in recent years. With few exceptions, the surplus is statewide. The
					 continued presence of surplus hospital beds in all planning districts, and in
					 nearly all counties with acute care hospitals, raises a number of basic
					 planning questions:
* Does the "carrying cost" of maintaining unused beds raise
					 operating cost unnecessarily?
* Do the surpluses, and any associated economic burdens,
					 retard the introduction of new and more cost effective practices and
					 services?
* Do existing service providers maintain unwarranted
					 surpluses to shield themselves from competition, as argued by some potential
					 competitors?
* Should the space allocated to surplus beds be converted
					 to other uses, particularly if doing so would avoid construction of new space,
					 or facilities, to accommodate growing outpatient caseloads?
* Do the large surpluses mask need for additional services
					 and capacity in some regions and reduce the sensitivity and responsiveness of
					 planners and regulators to these legitimate community needs?
* Do the continuing surpluses, and the view of them by
					 stakeholders and other interested parties, create an environment that invites
					 policy intervention by legislators and other responsible parties?
These questions are unusually difficult to answer
					 definitively. The fact that they arise frequently suggest the importance of
					 reducing excess capacity where it is possible to do so and is not likely to
					 result in problematic consequences. MSDH urges each hospital to voluntarily
					 reduce the licensed bed capacity to equal its average daily census plus a
					 confidence factor that will assure that an unused hospital bed will be
					 available on any given day.
Table 5-1
Licensed Short-Term Acute Care Hospital Beds by
					 Service Area FY 2020
Facility
Licensed Beds
Abeyance Beds
Daily Census
Occupancy Rate
Length of Stay
General Hospital Service Area
								  1
514
22
212.87
41.41
3.97
Alliance Healthcare System, Inc.
40
8.85
22.12
8.65
Baptist Memorial Hospital - DeSoto
309
160.33
51.89
4.06
Methodist Healthcare Olive Branch Hospital
69
29.57
42.85
3.11
North Oak Regional Medical Center -
								  Senatobia*
0
N/A
N/A
N/A
Panola Medical Center
96
22
14.13
14.72
3.94
General Hospital Service Area
								  2
1143
45
424.06
37.10
4.64
Baptist Memorial Hospital - Booneville
104
17.55
16.87
7.07
Baptist Memorial Hospital - Union County
145
16.57
11.42
2.66
Laird Hospital
25
15.75
63.02
13.18
Magnolia Regional Health Center
200
77.23
38.61
4.40
North Mississippi Medical Center
571
286.64
50.20
4.75
Pontotoc Health Services
25
0.00
0.00
2.48
Tippah County Hospital
25
45
4.33
17.30
2.93
Tishomingo Health Services, Inc.
48
6.00
12.49
3.17
General Hospital Service Area
								  3
887
41
199.88
22.53
4.49
Bolivar Medical Center
164
1
29.76
18.15
4.17
Delta Regional Medical Center
195
58.36
29.93
4.48
Delta Regional Medical Center - West
								  Campus
67
40
6.46
9.64
4.27
Greenwood Leflore Hospital
188
50.54
26.88
4.15
North Sunflower Medical Center
35
12.77
36.47
6.44
Northwest Mississippi Medical Center
171
21.74
12.71
3.97
South Sunflower County Hospital
49
7.32
14.94
3.24
Tallahatchie General Hospital
18
12.93
71.84
13.03
General Hospital Service Area
								  4
1138
59
291.82
25.64
3.30
Baptist Memorial Hospital - Calhoun
25
4
2.84
11.38
3.44
Baptist Memorial Hospital - Golden
								  Triangle
307
86.00
28.01
4.35
Baptist Memorial Hospital - North
								  Mississippi
204
69.60
34.12
3.08
Choctaw Regional Medical Center
25
1.69
6.75
3.40
Monroe Regional Hospital
35
9.08
25.96
6.71
North MS Medical Center - Gilmore Memorial
45
18.94
42.09
1.09
North MS Medical Center - West Point (Clay
								  County)
43
13.54
31.48
3.54
Noxubee General Critical Access Hospital
25
3.20
12.80
3.22
Oktibbeha County Hospital
90
18.40
20.45
3.21
Trace Regional Hospital
84
10.40
12.39
10.14
Tyler Holmes Memorial Hospital
25
3.10
12.40
3.45
University of Mississippi Medical Center -
								  Grenada
142
14
18.04
12.70
3.78
Webster Health Services, Inc.
38
20.75
54.62
5.89
Winston Medical Center
24
41
10.97
45.71
4.37
Yalobusha General Hospital
26
5.26
20.22
3.10
General Hospital Service Area
								  5
2959
183
1329.46
44.93
3.80
Baptist Medical Center - Leake, Inc.
25
4.69
18.74
3.61
Baptist Medical Center - Yazoo, Inc.
25
4.32
17.27
3.87
Claiborne County Hospital
32
8.89
27.78
6.79
Copiah County Medical Center
25
10
5.29
21.16
3.73
Holmes County Hospital and Clinics
25
10
1.69
6.77
2.90
Magee General Hospital
44
20
7.12
16.19
4.51
Merit Health Central
304
143
99.07
32.59
5.18
Merit Health Madison
67
11.44
17.07
3.16
Merit Health Rankin
134
26.23
19.57
5.49
Merit Health River Oaks
160
34.18
21.36
4.06
Merit Health River Region
321
80.93
25.21
5.72
Merit Health Woman's Hospital
109
7.96
7.30
4.56
Mississippi Baptist Medical Center
541
256.12
47.34
4.88
Patients' Choice Medical Center of Smith
								  County
29
6.21
21.42
11.78
S.E. Lackey Memorial Hospital
35
17.78
50.80
7.25
Scott Regional Hospital
25
1.23
4.94
3.38
Sharkey - Issaquena Community Hospital
29
6.38
22.00
6.64
Simpson General Hospital
35
9.13
26.10
6.90
St. Dominic - Jackson Memorial Hospital
536
354.92
66.22
2.57
University of Mississippi Medical Center
458
385.88
84.25
5.12
General Hospital Service Area
								  6
825
105
289.22
35.06
4.88
Alliance Health Center
154
98.03
63.65
7.99
Anderson Regional Medical Center
260
71
104.70
40.27
4.03
Anderson Regional Medical Center South
								  Campus
49
7.90
16.13
11.76
H.C. Watkins Memorial Hospital
25
1.06
4.25
4.49
John C. Stennis Memorial Hospital
25
0.84
3.37
2.67
Neshoba County General Hospital
48
34
16.21
33.77
4.30
Rush Foundation Hospital
215
47.35
22.02
3.86
Wayne General Hospital
49
13.13
26.80
3.94
General Hospital Service Area
								  7
579
16
13.69
21.28
3.76
Beahcam Memorial Hospital
31
6
11.45
36.93
6.11
Field Health System
25
3.05
12.19
3.66
Franklin County Memorial Hospital
25
10
1.03
4.13
2.83
Jefferson County Hospital
30
3.68
12.27
8.52
King's Daughters Medical Center
99
23.26
23.50
2.69
Lawrence County Hospital
25
7.46
29.84
6.18
Merit Health Natchez
159
44.83
28.20
4.92
Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical
								  Center
160
27.52
17.20
2.58
Walthall General Hospital
25
0.93
3.70
3.22
General Hospital Service Area
								  8
1,153
41
471.92
40.93
4.39
Covington County Hospital
35
2.27
6.49
3.41
Forrest General Hospital
513
288.59
56.26
4.27
Greene County Hospital
7
3
0.37
5.23
2.63
Jasper General Hospital
16
0.27
1.69
3.67
Jefferson Davis General Hospital
25
0.85
3.39
3.21
Marion General Hospital
49
30
6.20
12.66
4.35
Merit Health Wesley
211
85.90
40.71
5.14
Perry County General Hospital
22
8
0.33
1.48
2.77
South Central Regional Medical Center
275
87.14
31.69
4.21
General Hospital Service Area
								  9
1,336
46
477.44
35.74
4.11
Garden Park Medical Center
130
23.64
18.18
3.08
George Regional Hospital
48
8.67
18.07
3.14
Highland Community Hospital
49
46
14.08
28.74
3.91
Memorial Hospital at Gulfport
254
153.16
60.30
4.23
Merit Health Biloxi
153
49.63
32.44
3.48
Ocean Springs Hospital
136
90.97
66.89
4.15
Ochsner Medical Center - Hancock Medical
								  Center
102
8.04
7.88
3.00
Pearl River County Hospital
24
0.71
2.96
2.99
Singing River Hospital
415
123.27
29.70
4.76
Stone County Hospital
25
5.27
21.09
5.74
Total:
1 0,534
558
3,819.87
36.26
4.05
Note: * North Oak Regional Medical Center - Senatobia
					 closed in FY 2018; the hospital reopened in July 2021 as Highland Hills
					 Hospital.
Note: Regency Hospital of Hattiesburg closed in FY
					 2018
Source: Applications for Renewal of Hospital License, FY
					 2020 Annual Hospital Report.