Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 15 - Mississippi Department of Health › Part 8 - Office of Health Policy and Planning › Subpart 90 - Planning and Resource Development › Chapter 03 - Mental Health › Section 15-8-90-03-302 - Adult Psychiatric Services (State-Operated and Private)

Current through June 25, 2024
Mississippi's four (4) state-operated hospitals and
					 thirteen (13) crisis stabilization units provide the majority of inpatient
					 psychiatric care and services throughout the state. In FY 2018, the Mississippi
					 State Hospital at Whitfield reported a total of 118 active psychiatric licensed
					 beds; East Mississippi State Hospital at Meridian reported 108 active
					 psychiatric licensed beds, North Mississippi State Hospital in Tupelo reported
					 fifty (50) licensed beds, and South Mississippi State Hospital in Purvis
					 reported fifty (50) licensed beds. The four (4) facilities reported 2,197
					 adults received acute psychiatric services at the hospitals in FY 2020, 849 at
					 the Mississippi State Hospital at Whitfield, 407 at the East Mississippi State
					 Hospital, 475 at the North Mississippi State Hospital, and 466 at the South
					 Mississippi State Hospital. Additionally, a total of 3,525 adults were served
					 through the thirteen (13) crisis centers in FY 2020.
Because the medically indigent have difficulty accessing
					 private psychiatric facilities in their respective communities, many private
					 facilities have low occupancy rates. State institutions provide the majority of
					 inpatient care for the medically indigent. To address this problem, the
					 Legislature provided funding for seven (7) state Crisis Intervention Centers to
					 function as satellites to existing facilities operated by DMH. These centers
					 are operational in Brookhaven, Corinth, Newton, Laurel, Cleveland, Grenada,
					 Gulfport, and Batesville. DMH contracted with Life Help (Region VI Community
					 Mental Health Center) to operate the crisis center in Grenada beginning
					 September 1, 2009. This pilot program began with the purpose of studying the
					 potential for increased efficiencies and improved access to services for
					 individuals without them being involuntarily committed.
The role of these centers in the regional system is to
					 provide stabilization and treatment services to persons who are in a
					 psychiatric crisis. Beginning July 1, 2010, DMH transitioned five (5) of the
					 remaining state-operated crisis centers (now called Crisis Stabilization Units)
					 to regional community mental health centers located in Batesville, Brookhaven,
					 Cleveland, Corinth and Laurel. In 2017, DMH transitioned the remaining crisis
					 center in Newton to Weems Community Mental Health Center. The Gulfport center
					 is operated by Gulf Coast Mental Health (Region XIII CMHC) and is partially
					 funded by a grant from DMH. Timber Hills operates a Crisis Stabilization Unit
					 (CSU) in Batesville and Corinth. Region 8 Mental Health Services operates the
					 Brookhaven CSU. Delta Community Mental Health (Region V CMHC) operates the
					 Cleveland CSU. Pine Belt Mental Healthcare Resources operates the Laurel CSU.
					 All CSUs accept voluntary and involuntary admissions twenty-four (24) hours a
					 day, seven (7) days a week.
In FY 2019, a shift in funds from the DMH's inpatient
					 programs to its service budget allowed for the opening of forty-eight (48)
					 additional crisis stabilization beds. Previously, Mississippi had eight (8),
					 16-bed Crisis Stabilization Units across the state. Currently, there are
					 thirteen (13) Crisis Stabilization Units with 176 beds. The new units include:
					 LifeCore Health Group (Region 3) which opened eight (8) crisis beds in Tupelo;
					 Community Counseling Services (Region 7) which opened eight (8) beds in West
					 Point; Singing River (Region 14) which opened eight (8) beds in Gautier; Hinds
					 Behavioral Health Services (Region 9) which opened sixteen (16) beds in
					 Jackson; and Region 1 Community Mental Health Center which opened eight (8)
					 beds in Marks.
These beds offer time-limited residential treatment
					 services to serve adults with severe mental health episodes that if not
					 addressed would likely result in the need for inpatient treatment. In FY 2020,
					 the CSUs had a 91% diversion rate from people having to enter the state
					 hospitals for inpatient treatment.
Mississippi has eighteen (18) adult psychiatric facilities,
					 with a capacity of 677 licensed beds for adult psychiatric patients, including
					 231 beds held in abeyance by MSDH distributed throughout the state. The
					 criteria and standards section of this chapter provides a full description of
					 the services that private facilities must provide. Map 3-1 shows the location
					 of inpatient facilities in Mississippi serving adult acute psychiatric
					 patients; Table 3-1 shows utilization statistics.
Table 3-1
Acute Adult Psychiatric Bed Utilization FY
					 2020
Facility
County
Licenced Beds
Abeyance Beds
Inpatient Days
Occupancy Rate (%)
ALOS
Alliance Health Center
Lauderdale
50
22,052
120.50
8.82
Baptist Memo. Hospital-Golden Triangle
Lowndes
22
13
9,943
123.48
5.80
Brentwood Behavioral Health Care*
Rankin
25
2
3,337
36.47
6.31
Delta Regional Medical Center- West
Washington
9
40
1,970
59.81
3.96
Forrest General Hospital
Forrest
64
11,579
49.43
3.83
Garden Park Medical Center
Harrison
29
1,174
11.06
7.66
Gulfport Behavioral Health System
Harrison
59
1,200
5.56
2.45
Magnolia Regional Health Center
Alcorn
19
5,476
78.75
8.83
Merit Health Central
Hinds
71
143
21,039
80.96
8.44
Merit Health River Region
Warren
40
5,110
34.90
6.92
North Miss Medical Center
Lee
33
7,812
64.68
6.05
Oceans Behavorial Hospital of Biloxi
Harrison
45
5,724
34.75
7.71
Panola Medical Center
Panola
25
8
2,772
30.30
5.08
Parkwood Behavioral HS-Olive Branch
DeSoto
42
11,026
71.73
8.96
S.E. Lackey Memorial Hospital
Scott
10
2,156
58.91
12.24
Singing River Hospital
Jackson
30
3,732
33.99
6.63
St. Dominic Jackson- Memorial Hospital
Hinds
83
20,069
66.06
5.45
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Hinds
21
25
6,973
90.72
6.45
Total / Average Adult Psychiatric Beds
								  Rates:
677
231
143,144
57.77
6.76
*Brentwood Behavioral Health received CON authority May
					 2020 to convert six (6) adult psych beds to adult CDU beds.
Source(s): Applications for Renewal of Hospital License for
					 FY 2020; MSDH Division of Health Planning and Resource Development
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