Jackson Jambalaya

Services will remain at the Medical Mall until the legislature leaves town.

I wouldn’t be shocked if one of the big three hospitals didn’t completely move to the suburbs in the next twenty years. It wouldn’t be unprecedented.

Can you blame them? Jackson has too much crime

Folks it’s time to get serious and move the capital out of Jackson

"Folks it’s time to get serious and move the capital out of Jackson"

And move it where? I hope not Rankin County? Because the folks in Madison will have something to say? Perhaps DeSoto County, because they have a clear cut argument to say the new location should be there? But then that will insult the folks on the Gulf Coast since that's the tourist destination in Mississippi? Cut off your nose to spite your face, assuming it's going to hurt someone else.

Keep the hospitals in Jackson. We don’t want the hospital “regulars” here

Maybe the one in south Jackson

Tupelo

Jackson sets a poor example of the state. We need a capital wel can proud of

UMC was established as a hospital to teach and train, do research, and provide indigent care. For 50 years that worked well. Now they are about making money. They don’t want any service area that’s not affluent. Sad for the poor and the students

We had to go to this "campus" in 2023 for rabies vaccines for an upcoming trip as HD is the only place that gives preemptive rabies shots. Oh.my.word. Almost 2 years later, I'm still working on getting them to refund the money they collected from my insurance after they made me paid in full. Completely incompetent services. While we waited for shots, numerous teens came in for STD testing - so I guess that's a positive if they are getting treated, but it was so incredibly poorly run. The NP was great, but the rest of the staff could care less about patients. Not sure that relocating will help, but maybe state employees will be encouraged to serve their clientele.

Finding a large hospital facility that does not have some service issues is damn near impossible whether in Jackson or New York. A move to available space that the main hospital controls and maintains rather than long term leasing might be advisable when possible. Big deal. Moving the capitol to the suburbs is the answer? C'mon.

It takes money to run umc and three is no free lunch

@6:08 So since Jackson is so bad, I presume UMMC will stop building any more facilities in or around the main hospital.

Because umc already owns the property around the hospital

No one ever said move the capital to the suburbs but move it somewhere else Jackson is a embarrassment to the state

No, they’ll spent too much money drilling for clean water

It's quite ironic that crime has increased all over the metro. A police officer was shooting in broad daylight in Flowood. People were killed in Byram, Ridgeland, and Madison but its not the same. In fact, UMC has shootings in its hospital that are not reported. Yet, UMC states its moving to greener pastures because of the infrastructure and crime. What will happen to UMC if its patient census drops when people from Jackson refuse to travel to Ridgeland. I'm not blaming UMC because ST. D, and MBMC are in Madison as well. Sure Jackson, has its share of issues but lets agree UMC receives its monies from the State and mainly citizens of Jackson. It wouldn't be far fetched if patients look to other places for their health care needs. As it relates to the medical mall, how can the City of Jackson function when its revenues are being taken away i.e. water and sewer, the airport, its legal system in the name of helping the City. The fact is guns kill. Blame the increased violence on the unintended consequences of lax gun laws. There is plenty blame to be rationed but the reality is UMC wants the stadium site which happens to be about 1 miles from the medical mall in the same city with poor infrastructure. Maybe UMC's lease generated $200M over 30 years for the medical mall but black folk helped UMC generate over $2B in annual revenue. UMC this isn't a equivalent comparison when stating your reason for abandoning the black community.

Not true. City gets no money from airport. Airport income stays at the airport. It's off the city books. The water and sewer income should be kept with water and sewer, not used to prop up city finances. Actually thefeds did Jackson a favor taking it over as it was losing millions a year. That loss is now off the books.