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.

Gosh! Many of these physicians live in fondren and Eastover just like many Mississippi sports medicine doctors live in NE Jackson. I guess they will commute like others now

For all of those wanting to move the capitol to a "city we can be proud of", can you name that city? And can I get an insurance policy from you that it neither will have a perception of crime problem within the next 10 years? I'm no fan of Jackistan, but reality is this is an issue playing out in every single state. Big cities have crime issues and the only solution is a change in leadership and law enforcement. Reagan is dead and there is no bright shining city on a hill....anywhere....

"your reason for abandoning the black community", the black community is not being abandoned, the black community is allowing the thug culture of a group of young savages to cause decent people to flee.

The pulpits of the black churches are silent when it comes to this shame. Their ministers are involved in political activism instead of setting the bar for a life that's acceptable to GOD.

The white churches are no better. There should be prayer, and fasting to get GOD's attention, because the only thing that can fix Jackson, is GOD.

This has been a long time coming. Working at the Medical Mall is not for the faint of heart, and I feel bad for our patients that must travel down the time warp of Woodrow Wilson. We hear gunfire daily, and automatic gunfire weekly. The location is the epitome of what is wrong with Jackson in general, crime driving out good people and businesses. Aside from the fact that having all oncology services near each other on the main campus being a definite need, providing a safe environment for everyone that has to use the facility must be a priority.

"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."

Well, when the existing Memorial Stadium just isn't "good enough" for JSU that wants to build a new stadium, and the property that the Memorial Stadium occupies is adjacent to the UMMC campus AND its own existing RELIABLE source of WATER, why wouldn't UMMC be interested in the stadium property? Build the new JSU stadium complex on the old Jackson Medical Mall site that is closer to JSU, right?

The Medical Mall is falling apart (I'm guessing I'm one of about 5 people who read JJ that has been there in the last 6 months). That place had a good run serving folks in Jackson, but (surprise!) it just wasn't kept up by the landlords like it needed to be in order to remain a viable spot. It's not just UMMC leaving the medical mall either - there are other tenants who are focused on caring for Jackson residents and are staying in Jackson, but they have no choice but to find another facility.

Also, UMMC isn't going anywhere. There's way too much infrastructure already built on their campus. What's going to eventually happen is Veterans Memorial is going to get torn down and the hospital will expand on the other side of State Street - while they will also add more satellite campuses like they've been doing for the past decade+

And then the US healthcare system will collapse, and then we'll figure out what to do with the pieces! Fun times

Guns are not the problem, potholes & poor streets like Woodrow Wilson are not the problem, having the State bail out the water system isn't either: the ORGANIC PROBLEM is No Father in the Home! Most ALL crime results from a lack of RESPECT, respect for life itself, respect of parenthood, respect for discipline & boundaries. Thanks mostly to LBJ, FATHERLESS homes became a revenue source for many women. Then, hiring another family member (at G'vmt expense) to perform 'child care' services, simply guaranteed a continuing involvement of permanent dependency. All societal problems, IMHO, devolve
from the destruction of the FAMILY UNIT. Still the best 'organization' in the world, expanding out to grandparents, cousins, THEN to the 'village' then to the
city, state and finally, and least needed: the Fed.

When I worked for UMMC at the Medical Mall you could not count on water when winter rolled around. They would bring in really nice bathroom trailers and whoever off the street would RUIN them in an hour. I would drive home to use the bathroom because I was in Belhaven. No water meant no heat, so everyone is sitting around like we're at the North Pole. They are at World Com now, and it's very nice with a cafeteria.

For the love of God - you people do not understand urban planning or logistics.

You just do not up and relocate a capital city!? Jesus Christ!?