North Mississippi Medical Center 2006 Baldrige Award Winner
For too long, Mississippi ranked near the bottom in health status rankings. Now, the largest community owned hospital in Mississippi—in fact, the largest rural hospital in the United States—is poised to inspire all health-care organizations to higher levels of performance excellence. North Mississippi Medical Center (NMMC) is the 650-bed flagship hospital and tertiary referral center for North Mississippi Health System (NMHS), a not-for-profit, integrated healthcare delivery system thatserves 24 rural counties in northeast Mississippi andnorthwest Alabama.
Recently named a recipient of the 2006 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in the health care category, NMMC provides a continuum of services, from high-tech trauma and cardiac care to hospice and long-term care, and offers expertise in 17 sub-specialties.
The majority of NMMC is located in 43 buildings on the 111-acre Tupelo campus. The organization’s 3,875 employees and 277 physicians provide services, with 65% of NMMC’s annual operating revenue ($443 million) generated by acute care services.The challenges facing NMMC are many, but fore-most is caring for one of the least healthy and most medically under served populations in the country, with adverse lifestyle choices a major factor affecting residents’ health. The area also faces shortages of health care providers, lack of insurance and charity care burdens.
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