Jackson Jambalaya

To be fair to UMMC-Grenada, Grenada has the worst patient population. There, it is considered noble to die clutching a chicken leg en route to go crappie fishing.

UMMC Jackson and Grenada need the state to put more money into these systems. Lack of funding for these systems is not helping them grow and improve. Do better, Mississippi.

Wonder if this study unveiled the marginalized individual who was starved and dehydrated to death in one of our outstanding local facilities. Hospitals must investigate actions that the JCHa call sentinel, but then those reports are buried. We need a good investigative reporter to look at sentinel event occurrences in local facilities. It is scary

Hospital in Canton?

OK; Quit showing off and tell us plebes what a 'sentinel event' is. Or did you mean seminal?

The Sunflower County Hospital at Ruleville has a slogan: "Take Me To Ruleville". Where are they on this report?

You can just look at the facilities around Mississippi, they are just not first-rate facilities.

You get what you pay for.

Now that the Mississippi legislature is about to gut Medicaid, they are not making health care a priority in this state.

We will not see improvements anytime soon.

I love how MBMC (now Baptist Memorial Jackson) declined to report on the section about enough qualified nurses - because they don't. Nurses get 6-7 patients each, PCAs get pulled to other floors because they can't keep staff... it's a horrible working experience.

UMMC is so bad they had to pay a select group of nurses an extra $5 an hour to retain them as others ran for the hills. They are now discussing a raise for another "select group of employees", but not everyone. Talk about killing morale and dividing the employees. Sheesh.

Our hospitals suck. If one has the capbality to diagnose and treat a patient, then they’re short on staff and can’t get it done properly. Heaven forbid you arrive in an ambulance without your insurance card on you because they’ll try to kick you out early thinking you don’t have any rather than ask coherent family members.

These marginalized grading systems don’t paint the whole picture. Hospital communication between various staff should be graded across the board from the ER to the room a patient is admitted to includng the different shifts and treatment teams that accompany such rooms.