The University of Mississippi Medical Center issued the following statement.
The University of Mississippi Medical Center is leasing brand-new medical office space directly across from the future ambulatory surgical center on Colony Park Boulevard in Ridgeland.
The surgical center will make up UMMC Colony Park North, while this installment will establish UMMC Colony Park South. This move aims to enhance the patient experience by providing a more accessible and convenient location for many of its ambulatory clinics.
"Patients expect to see their primary care physicians in free-standing, community-based clinics like this," said Dr. Alan Jones, associate vice chancellor for health affairs. "Our main campus, while comprehensive, can be challenging to navigate. This new clinic space is designed to streamline the patient experience, offering easier access and more accessible parking. Our goal is for patients to enjoy a seamless visit, with minimal disruption to their daily schedules."
UMMC will occupy approximately 65,000 square feet of the medical office space, sharing the three-story building with Jackson Heart. The new facility will house several UMMC ambulatory clinics, including orthopaedics, internal medicine, neurology, and physical and occupational therapies.
Additionally, it will cater to specialty surgeries such as plastic surgery and urology. The site will also feature a comprehensive medical laboratory and advanced radiological services, including MRI, CT scans, mammography and ultrasound.
“We are excited about this new location,” said Dr. Michael Hall, professor and chair of the Department of Medicine. “This multispecialty clinic should make it easier for our patients to access different providers and specialties without some of the complexities that our large main hospital campus brings. This should facilitate comprehensive, high-quality care in a new facility that also provides unique training opportunities for our students, residents and fellows.”
While many services are transitioning to the new location, certain specialty clinics will remain at the UMMC Pavilion. These include transplant services, neurosurgery, wound care, and medicine specialties like gastroenterology, rheumatology and infectious disease.
The relocation of the Medical Center’s clinics to this new site is scheduled for January 2025, when they will begin welcoming patients.
50 comments:
Lumumba?
Really hard to park at the north tower of the hospital property.
UMMC has been one of the final stabilizing forces - if you could call it that - for downtown Jxn. At some point, people need to realize that Mississippi needs a functioning capital city in order the entire state to be successful. Otherwise, we will keep developing the whole state until there are no more Madison-like areas to clear and setup shop for a few years.
Abandoning Jackson without saying it directly.
I agree with the fact that UMMC is out of room at the current location. There is no parking. Look at the dermatologist clinic. You can’t even get in and out of there.
this move is for the benefit of the doctors and staff, not the patients. Doctors and staff live in this area and are too scared to drive to Jackson to face the problems their white flight created.
It’s the FreeMarket at work. Lumumba is driving businesses and residents out. Will take years if ever for Jackson to recover. The tax base is evaporating
Some call it white flight.
I call it common sense safety.
Translation: "At this new safe location you won't get robbed nor 'jacked while visiting our clinics."
Parking, and trying to find your destination once inside the buildings.
It is not white flight, it is "anyone who can afford to leave is leaving" flight. NOT just white people.
10:28, Don;t forget the black-flight of the Jackson middle class.
10:28, your racism is showing. Please, go to the UMC website, click Find a Doctor, input Family Medicine, and tell me what reality is, as opposed to your narrative.
7 out of 15 photos are of blacks or a Muslim, mainly female. There is ONE white male pictured.
Maybe it's Bright Flight at worse, but, I guess that excludes you. Sorry.
When Jackson loses UMMC, it has lost everything except those parking spots at Smith Wills stadium.
Mississippi's overall state population hasn't grown but mostly declined in the last twenty years...so why do we see so much development? Why can't we make use of the buildings and concrete we already have? We are killing our natural resources.
I want to be able to hunt and fish and not hear the sound of the interstate.
"I want to be able to hunt and fish and not hear the sound of the interstate. "
I didn't realize this new building interfered with the "hunt & fish" activities currently dominating Highland Colony Parkway.
Hopefully, you will now have working water, working electricity, safety getting to and from you automobile, safe parking, etc.
12:01 PM, this may come as a shock to you but Highland Colony Pkwy is a major thoroughfare that has only sprung up in our lifetime. Give it a decade and it will look like Lakeland Dr., completely devoid of anything but cheap re-planted pine trees and some annual flowers. This has a cumulative effect...
If safety is one of the main goals of the move, guess what? It doesn't take a criminal mastermind to drive 5-10 min. north to find the next victim.
Baptist Hospital recently had two blackout events. Every hospital in Jackson needs their own water tower and a generator.
Ok, let's talk dollars and cents...how much is this going to cost and what could UMMC possibly be brining in to justify this? They have the poorest and worst-insured patient population. Where are they going to make cuts in order to facilitate this? If they are moving from on-campus, then what happens to the unused space they can't free themselves of?
"Doctors and staff live in this area and are too scared to drive to Jackson to face the problems their white flight created."
Doctors and staff live in this area and are too scared to drive to Jackson to face the problems that caused their white flight.
There. Fixed it for you.
Chowke embraces the so-called white flight. He recently stated emphatically that he wants to be surround by people of his culture. This used to be called segregation.
Yo Chowke, watch what you wish for, loser.
11:12 You do know that there are black people and *gasp* even Muslims that live in Madison County.
Your racism is showing here.
God bless KF for reporting this BS but I think I have reached maximum Lumumba exhaustion.
If the COJ loves him, good for them. I am so thankful I moved out of his sh*t hole town.
But I don't begrudge those who love living in his squalor, but I don't think I can read about this insanity any longer.
"If safety is one of the main goals of the move, guess what? It doesn't take a criminal mastermind to drive 5-10 min. north to find the next victim."
The difference is 5-10 minutes north you find LEO and judges that do their job.
Hey Kingfish…. This may be total BS but there’s a rumor that UMMC Med school now does not have the traditional grading system and now students cannot fail out of med school there… care to run that down?
10:28 Your comments are the perfect example of "the soft bigotry of low expectations." Read another way, what you've said is that the majority in Jackson is incapable of running anything without the presence of the whites who have left. Now, whether that's true or not is debatable, but whites leaving didn't cause the problem. As 1:02 correctly stated, the existing problems were / are the reasons for the whites leaving.
Why are our tax dollars funding the expansion of this government competition with the private sector? There are acres available for redevelopment in close proximity to the main campus. Let the UMC doctors fund the damn expansion out of their own pockets.
July 15, 2024 at 10:28 AM
It's my understanding most of the doctors (and lawyer) live in Belhaven. Especially the surgeons since they could be called in on short notice.
It’s not White folks moving out, it’s anyone Black or White that desires and has the ability to move to a safer pasture.
With more than 10,000 full- and part-time employees, UMMC is one of the largest employers in Mississippi. The Medical Center's $2 billion annual budget - approximately one-tenth from state appropriations that are directed to assist the academic mission - represents 10 percent of the Jackson metro area economy and two percent of the state economy. UMMC continues to grow in all its mission areas.
Yeah, a mile wide but only an inch deep when it comes to quality.
10:55. Free market you say? What is free market about a State ran institution?
5:13 PM, so what you're sayin is that UMMC is basically like a Fortune 500 Company. I guess they could just buy the whole town of Ridgeland, then. That explains all those Ferarri's parked at the UMMC parking lot.
"Yes, I understand your concerns and your desire for safer, cleaner streets. But, you see, well -- sorry not sorry -- we can't have that because racism," said the fool, inserting himself into the conversation.
July 15, 2024 at 6:39 PM
Why are you quoting Lumumba?
The lawmakers of this state need to figure out a way to take over operations of the Capitol city. It’s a dangerous ghost town, all because of racism. I couldn’t agree more with Lumumba.
I'd like to point-out the eight-foot-wide DEAD ZONE at the edge of the pond. Someone, surely at the direction of another someone (neither of whom should be employed in their current capacities), sprayed the area with herbicide.
And if that were not bad-enough, someone waded out to the little island, where the Dirt Guy (someone who'd skillfully created that retention pond, using earth moving equipment) had admirably left that tiny hillock with the little cypress tree. They sprayed the island, and killed everything- even the cypress. It takes really, REALLY deadly herbicides, to kill 'Dicots' (remember 'Monocots' and 'Dicots', from high school Botany? Weeds are mostly Monocots. Trees and shrubs are mostly Dicots.).
People are noticing a lot of this in Madison County, of-late - swaths of dead greenery, as wide as some idiot can spray. It looks SO JACKSON - so like something the lazy good-for-nothings who helped destroy Jackson, would have done. The City of Madison has, apparently, made the mistake of hiring someone who'd rather spray than mow or trim. That look, suddenly, is turning up in Madison's parks. It looks horrible. It looks THIRD WORLD.
It's a look which will NOT be attracting the intelligentsia moving to Mississippi, to fill those great, newly-announced Tech jobs.
The med school has not failed a student in quite some time.
They just go work for ER companies that supply ER doctors to rural hospitals. Dirty little secret.
8:57 PM, very astute observation. This is the trend in Madison and in many suburbs across the country. Also notice the thin little trees planted over some fresh sod.
None of this is native to the area. Flora and fauna completely wiped out and this adds nothing to the local environment. We are ruining the natural landscape in Mississippi!!!
Well just Dayum!
Had no idea Jackson Heart is moving. Since The Mair up in Madison don't allow no panhandlers, what Ima do if I can't look out the window and see those hitch-hiking job seekers at the Lakeland intersection?
@8:57 - It's private property. Does not belong to the City of Madison. Now if you want to give specific evidence of the same occurring at city parks, please get after it.
@10:54 - How astute of you to congratulate the astute observation of 8:57. Neither of you are astute enough to understand private property rights.
If the city has an ordinance addressing the use of herbicides, please advise.
"UMMC has been one of the final stabilizing forces - if you could call it that - for downtown Jxn."
Except that it's not in 'downtown Jxn'.
Boy do I ever remember Memorial Stadium games, Shakey's Pizza before games, parking anywhere on a public street and sauntering over to the game, leaving your car doors unlocked, the nearby Holiday Inn and the service station owners running you off if you parked at their location. Great fun, great time, great years. Cheers to memories of bygone days.
2:06 PM, well now we're just splitting hairs...I think of anything south of Lakeland towards the Capitol building as downtown...but who cares. Whatever you call that part of town is fine with me, my point still stands.
Did they TRY to make that building as ugly as was humanly possible? Did they fly a delegation up to Minneapolis, to study the ugliest examples of Nixon Era Modern?
Somebody worked really hard, to get it that ugly. But WHY?
@7:27 - You claim your point stands. Please tell us how and why you believe UMMC has been a 'stabilizing force'. Other than employing 10,000 people and students, what are you talking about?
The parking area has been the scene of crimes, The public is afraid of the area, employees and students are afraid of the area, the emergency room traffic is replete with thugs, families of thugs, shooting victims, knifing victims, homicide incidents and drug addicts.
If you stabilize something, you cause it to become fixed or stop changing. Synonyms for stability include: reliability, strength, sturdiness, soundness, firmness, durability and solidity.
Stability is the strength to stand and endure. And at the top of any list: Develop forces that restore the original condition.
MY GOD MAN, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI HERE. Your point does NOT stand.
"...has been a stabilizing force..."
"...has been a force which has stabilized..."
Do you see the difference between the two statements? The first, does NOT imply that stability has become a fait accompli - a goal which has been attained.
The second statement (said by nobody, ever, about the area under discussion), would tend to imply that stability is an accomplished fact. Even then, the 'ize' suffix comes with a bit of wiggle room. When we galvanize or sanitize or lionize or weaponize or monetize, we subject something to a force or process of some sort. Some may expect complete, absolute, immutable change, following "...ization". Others may not.
But back to that first statement. Using the word form 'Stabilizing', implies, not just a process, but that the process is (or was) ONGOING. It's in the "ing"...
And notice that the 'A' in "a stabilizing force" implies/acknowledges that UMMC is one of multiple forces in-play. I think we agree, that most of those forces are DEstabilizing, and that the presence of UMMC may not have been sufficient to counter those destabilizing forces.
5:03 AM, if you think it's bad now, just wait til UMMC pulls out.
And yes, we are living in the stable version of Jxn. Things can get much, much worse. Not saying that it's perfect or ideal by any means. Much room for improvement but the answer is not to pack up and flee north to just another plot of yazoo clay.
The primary role of any hospital emergency room is to 'stabilize' patients. That's the only time stabilize, stability or 'a stabilizing effect' should be mentioned in the same sentence with this industry and its location.
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