The University of Mississippi Medical Center issued the following statement.
The University of Mississippi Medical Center is enhancing its educational infrastructure by establishing a multidisciplinary teaching campus in Ridgeland’s Colony Park.
This expansion marks a significant step forward in UMMC’s commitment to fostering excellence in medical education, research and health care delivery. The development of the Colony Park educational campus will help equip the next generation of health care professionals with the knowledge, skills and resources needed to meet the evolving needs of our communities.
As the health care landscape continues to progress, it’s imperative that medical education keeps stride with the changes. This new campus will increase academic opportunities for UMMC students and trainees in facilities with health care settings that more closely match those of the providers in which many will eventually be employed outside the academic medical center structure.
“Because surgery centers are the model, and we have not had one, a lot of our trainees leave UMMC and have never seen that,” said Dr. Alan Jones, associate vice chancellor for clinical affairs. “They don’t know the difference in operations because right now, we do all our ambulatory surgeries in the day surgery center at the hospital. From an educational standpoint for both our students and our residents, they need a learning environment that mirrors where they will be practicing.”
The plan for the approximately 131,000 square-foot educational campus, located on the west side of I-55 North, north of Renaissance at Colony Park, consists of a medical office building, multispecialty ambulatory surgical center, imaging center and multimedia classrooms. When complete, the building will feature two wings with a central lobby entrance. A one-story ambulatory surgery center will be on the right when entering, and a three-story medical office building will be on the left.
“This new campus with the outpatient surgery center represents a great opportunity to strengthen both our educational and clinical missions at UMMC,” said Dr. Christopher Anderson, James D. Hardy professor and chair of the Department of Surgery and chief of the Division of Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery. "For patients requiring outpatient surgery, this campus will improve their experience significantly while simultaneously improving the educational exposure of our surgery and anesthesia residents and our medical students.”
The surgical center will have six operating rooms and two procedure rooms as well as diagnostic imaging capabilities including MRI, PET, CT, X-ray and ultrasound. It will feature state-of-the-art
“Ambulatory surgery centers are ubiquitous in the community and in health systems,” said Jones. “They are designed so that a patient has easy access to ambulatory procedures. It’s a smaller setting that is easier to navigate and the cost structure is lower. What’s unique about this one is that it’s a multispecialty center. You can come and get eye surgery one day and hand surgery the next.”
With the evolution of health care offerings and finances, insurance companies are now encouraging patients to undergo these types of procedures in an ambulatory surgery center rather than in hospitals.
“They expect health systems to have this type of an environment when it comes to these relatively minor surgeries,” said Jones. “It’s a lower cost structure than a hospital and payers don’t want to pay a hospital rate for an ambulatory surgery. From a health care perspective, being able to offer that to our patients is better."
Construction on the new campus is slated to be complete by January 2026 and is expected to begin operating in the months to follow.
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Thank you to all who helped sponsor this much needed facility and especially all teaching doctors and growing our medical staff in Mississippi! God Bless you all!
Is this the building that someone else, may be Baptist, was building and UMMC came in and bought?
“They expect health systems to have this type of an environment when it comes to these relatively minor surgeries,” said Jones.
I am no fan of Alan Jones, and literally EVERY surgeon I know stands by the statement that "there is no such thing as minor surgery". But I digress, maybe today they are teaching a different type of surgery at UMMC.
So we want to keep up with all the private facilities moving out of Jackson. Who pays for all of this? What is the cost? Has the legislature approved? Is this a way to circumvent the Certificate of Need? Rosy write up.
@12:39 I believe this is the (previously wooded) land to the immediate west side of 55 underneath the "Washington Monument" cell tower that's been cleared and where foundation work is underway.
“Because surgery centers are the model, and we have not had one, a lot of our trainees leave UMMC and have never seen that,” said Dr. Alan Jones
WHAT? The state's only teaching hospital and level 1 Trauma Center does not have a surgery center? Only ambulatory surgery? WTF?
I noticed that none of the ship-jumpers over at the Clarion or our stellar video stations is credited with the excellent prose.
"EVERY surgeon I know stands by the statement that "there is no such thing as minor surgery"
Alexander Soloman, MD, Orthopaedic Surgeon, Greenville, retired to Madison County...once told me, "There is no minor surgery, only minor surgeons".
Make of that what you will, in the case at hand.
It's perfect. It provides alternative medical services in the growing area and it finally gets the Ole Miss footprint firmly (but quietly) in the central Mississippi region. Madison is next.
UMC said, “ We gone!”.
Another government entity moving an operation out of Jackson. Tsk, tsk.
This is total B.S. This was paid for by your taxes for UMC doctors to make money by capturing affluent patients from Madison/Ridgeland. It has nothing to do with training medical students and residents. The mission of the school was was to teach and train. They should build their next venture in west Jackson and let students treat the indigent—a win for both . You don’t need a fancy new outpatient surgery center to learn how to do outpatient surgery. What a crock!
@1:05 PM...If it's a private facility, what do you or the legislature care what the cost is? Private facilities can move where and when they please.
With that said, have you been to UMC campus lately? There's no room to build anything new.
And your certificate of need tripe? CoN is just one big grift job. Want a CoN? Get your palm grease ready. CoN's should be repealed.
The City of Jackson can't/won't provide basic services in a safe environment. Why blame anyone including the State for leaving. If Jackson improves residents and businesses will come there. In the meantime quit wasting our tax dollars there. Wish more State agencies would relocate. I've never seen two police forces in the same city. It's only because Jackson won't do it and the rest of the State pays for it.
Please don’t neglect the current mayor of Jackson, Lamumba, for his assistance in running this and other programs out of Jackson!
Why would the University leave Jackson where more health care not less is needed. This is just one step in the further decline of the city. Once our hospitals leave along with their employment base, what will be left?
UMMC is huge and has built one giant building after another. One would think it has plenty of space, instead this move to Madison has more to do with demographics and frankly will leave Jackson lessened
Instead of acting in his official capacity, the House Speaker gallivants around town speaking to various groups about the need to do this and that. He should stay at his desk and do something with results.
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