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 15-8-90-03-307 - Private Distinct-Part Geriatric Psychiatric Services

Current through June 25, 2024
During 2020, twenty-one (21) Mississippi hospitals operated
					 certified distinct-part geriatric psychiatric units (Geropsych DPU) with a
					 total of 331 beds. Geropsych units receive Medicare certification as a
					 distinct-part psychiatric unit but are licensed as short-term acute hospital
					 beds. These Geropsych units served a total of 53,962 inpatient days of
					 psychiatric services to patients aged fifty-five (55) and older.
The industry standard formula for determining Geropsych DPU
					 bed need is 0.5 beds per 1,000 population aged fifty-five (55) and over. The
					 State Data Center of Mississippi under the University of Mississippi Center for
					 Population Studies, projects Mississippi will have 943,320 persons aged
					 fifty-five (55) and older by 2025. This population will need a total of 472
					 Geropsych DPU beds. The optimum unit size of a Geropsych unit is twelve (12) to
					 twenty-four (24) beds. Table 3-9 shows the state's twenty-one (21)
					 distinct-part geriatric psychiatric units. County population projections can be
					 found in Chapter 1 of this
Plan
.
The following facilities received approval through a
					 Determination of Reviewability for the establishment of a Geriatric Psychiatric
					 Distinct Part (Geriatric-Psychiatric DPU or Gero-psych) Unit/Service:
* Garden Park Medical Center (Add 8 beds) - Approved on
					 12/15/2017
* Garden Park Medical Center (Amendment to add 1 bed) -
					 Approved on 10/19/2018
* Merit Health Wesley (Add 2 beds) - Approved on
					 3/15/2019
* Tippah County Hospital (Add 10 beds) - Approved on
					 12/23/2019
* Trace Regional Hospital (Add 8 beds) - Approved on
					 4/9/2020
Table 3-9
Geriatric Psychiatric Bed Utilization FY
					 2020
Facility
County
Licensed Beds
Inpatient Days
Occupancy Rate
								  (%)
ALOS
Discharges
Discharge Days
State Total
331
53,962
44.54
11.98
4,492
53,794
General Hospital Service Area
								  1
22
906
11.25
9.75
93
907
Panola Medical Center
Panola
22
906
11.25
9.75
93
907
General Hospital Service Area
								  2
80
5,650
19.30
16.75
339
5,677
Alliance Health Care Center
Marshall
65
1,586
6.67
23.55
69
1,625
Baptist Memorial Hospital- Booneville
Perry
15
4,064
74.03
15.01
270
4,052
General Hospital Service Area
								  3
36
6,152
46.69
10.67
585
6,244
Bolivar Medical Center
Bolivar
12
2,852
64.94
11.17
257
2,870
Delta Regional Medical Center West Campus
Washington
14
393
7.67
7.02
56
393
North Sunflower Medical Center
Sunflower
10
2,907
79.43
10.96
272
2,981
General Hospital Service Area
								  4
38
8,043
57.83
12.85
614
7,888
Monroe Regional Hospital
Monroe
10
2,237
61.12
12.56
169
2,123
Trace Regional Hospital
Chickasaw
18
3,457
52.47
12.68
267
3,386
Winston Medical Center
Winston
10
2,349
64.18
13.37
178
2,379
General Hospital Service Area
								  5
77
17,251
61.21
12.07
1,426
17,214
Claiborne County Hospital
Claiborne
10
2,220
60.66
11.57
194
2,244
Merit Health Rankin
Rankin
18
4,702
71.37
11.56
396
4,578
Merit Health River Region
Warren
13
2,388
50.19
11.90
206
2,451
Mississippi Baptist Medical Center
Hinds
16
4,399
75.12
13.63
326
4,444
Sharkey- Issaquena Community Hospital
Sharkey
10
1,202
32.84
9.58
128
1,226
Simpson General Hospital
Simpson
10
2,340
63.93
12.90
176
2,271
General Hospital Service Area
								  6
38
7,006
50.37
10.97
639
7,012
Alliance Health Center
Lauderdale
12
2,089
47.56
9.39
227
2,131
Anderson Regional Medical Center South
Lauderdale
16
2,892
49.39
11.76
246
2,892
Neshoba County General Hospital
Neshoba
10
2,025
55.33
11.98
166
1,989
General Hospital Service Area
								  7
26
5,248
55.15
11.06
470
5,200
Beacham Memorial Hospital
Pike
14
3,084
60.19
10.56
292
3,084
Merit Health Natchez
Adams
12
2,164
49.27
11.89
178
2,116
General Hospital Service Area
								  8
14
3,706
72.33
11.20
326
3,652
Merit Health Wesley
Lamar
14
3,706
72.33
11.20
326
3,652
Source: Applications for Renewal of Hospital License for FY
					 2020; MSDH Division of Health Planning and Resource
					 Development