UMC issued the following press release.
The
University of Mississippi Medical Center Grenada and the UMMC Cancer
Center and Research Institute on Wednesday officially opened an
outpatient cancer care clinic and infusion services in Grenada.
“We
are trying to extend our reach to serve patients, and that is part of
what we’re doing here,” said Dr. LouAnn Woodward, vice chancellor for
health affairs and dean of the School of Medicine. “The people part of
what we’re doing is providing cancer services to patients closer to
home.”
Woodward,
a Carroll County native, recalled the trips her parents made to Jackson
while her late mother was in cancer treatment and the fatigue brought
on by cancer therapy and driving.
The
Grenada area “has a special place in my heart,” she said. “I’m so happy
to know we have a place here so patients won’t have to drive so far.
Some of the same physicians who took care of my mother will be here.”
Work
on making available UMMC’s cancer care services in Grenada started two
years ago, said Dr. John Ruckdeschel, CCRI director. Bringing care
closer to home was a prime motivator, he said. “It’s our belief that 80
to 90 percent of the care cancer patients require can be handled here,”
he said.
When patients need treatment on the UMMC main campus, it can be fast-tracked, he said.
The
CCRI is part of Mississippi’s only academic medical center, offering 11
adult cancer-specific interdisciplinary teams that review each new
patient’s cancer and recommend treatment. In July, U.S. News and World
Report gave UMMC Cancer Center and Research Institute the distinction of
High Performing in Adult Cancer for 2019-20, placing it in the top 10
percent of cancer centers nationwide.
Discussions
in interdisciplinary teams are crucial to offering patients top-quality
care. “Any patient we see here will be discussed in that same way,”
said Ruckdeschel.
Michael
Lott, president of the Grenada Board of Supervisors, the group that
leases the hospital to UMMC, said supervisors have discussed the cancer
services addition and are glad to see the hospital expand.
“This hospital is very important to us and our community,” he said.
Dr.
Joseph Messina, an internal medicine physician and UMMC Grenada chief
of staff, said the arrival of cancer services is a great day for the
area. “For the first time, our patients now have a choice where they can
receive state-of-the-art, specialty team-directed cancer care right
here at home.”
Not
only that, Messina said, patients are “able to receive that treatment
from a cancer center that has been ranked among the top 10 percent of
adult cancer treatment centers in America.”
Messina
called the emotional and physical travel a “taxing hardship” for cancer
patients, family and friends. Care closer to home also makes it easier
for their primary care physicians and specialists to keep tabs on their
treatment and aid with other health care needs, he said.
“We look forward to working with you in improving the health care delivery to our community and surrounding areas,” he said.
Matthew
Harrison, director of the Grenada County Economic Development District
and head of the Grenada Chamber of Commerce, cited the 100,000-plus
people in Grenada County and the surrounding area the services can
impact.
“We’re excited and pleased to see UMMC expand opportunities in Grenada,” he said.
Services are offered at 960 JK Avent Drive in Grenada and include:
- A weekly clinic held by a UMMC medical oncologist.
- An interdisciplinary team review of each new patient’s case. Treatment options for each adult patient are based on the type of cancer they have, the characteristics of that cancer, other medical conditions and the patient’s wishes. Specialists involved in each type of cancer care meet regularly to review new patients, usually weekly, and recommend a treatment plan.
- Infusion services, including chemotherapy, immunotherapy and other therapies as needed during the week. Other therapies might include blood or rehydration infusions.
- An Emergency Department equipped to handle cancer needs with access to the UMMC oncologist on call.
Many
patients also will be able to have regularly scheduled blood samples
drawn at Grenada, with the results entered into their electronic medical
record for doctors in Jackson to review.
UMMC
Grenada serves residents in Grenada and surrounding counties, drawing
on resources at UMMC in Jackson for specialty services that are hard to
offer at smaller, rural hospitals.
Patients
who need advanced or complex cancer care or those who may benefit from
clinical trials may receive cancer therapy at UMMC in Jackson. It’s
necessary for some procedures to be done in Jackson, such as complex
surgeries, bone marrow transplant and certain chemotherapies or
immunotherapies.
For more information about cancer services at UMMC Grenada, call 601-815-6700 or visit umc.edu/grenada-cancer.
For more information about cancer services at UMMC Grenada, call 601-815-6700 or visit umc.edu/grenada-cancer.
11 comments:
What? How did they do that? How can they compete with private hospitals? They didn't get a CON?
What what what?
Now every doctor in MS will bitch and complain about "competition."
The love of money combined with medicine makes for a very sick public.
It all flies under the radar with the appropriate wording.
Yet another jaded and pissy comment on this shithole, bottom feeder, misery peddling blog.
Top 10% in the country?!? I'll have whatever he's drinking - or smoking ;-)
I wish UMMC leadership would just change the name to UMC, it sure flows off the tongue better.
Another "press release" from UMMC. Why do you post them KF? They are full of distortions of the worst kind. UMMC is not a good medical center. It is actually in the lowest 10% of hospitals in the nation.
So your readers will challenge that assertion. Fine. Look for the only objective measures on hospitals, CMS (Medicare's) Compare program. Hospitals are ranked from 1-star (the worst hospitals) to 4-stars (the best). Most hospitals get 2-stars, 3-stars, or 4-stars. It is an objective measure of things that matter, like infections and complications from surgery. Let me repeat: The worst 10% of hospitals get 1-star. That is UMMC.
Here is the link for you to look for yourself: https://www.medicare.gov/hospitalcompare/search.html.
Put in a Jackson zip code and compare Miss Baptist (3-stars) to St. Dominic (2-stars) to UMMC (1-star). UMMC is not a great hospital. It is officially a poorly performing medical center.
I'm no rich cancer doctor. But I've been in remission since 2002 by rejecting hospital administered chemo and maintaining a regular mega dozes of Vitamin B17 which is completely banned by the big pharma controlled FDA in the USA.
But you can find it naturally. Thank you God for giving to us.
@8:25
You are crazy! B17 is poison arsenic and quackery!
Only a lunatic would consume poison to kill cancer!
8:25 It's a free country, and loons and frauds are free to believe whatever bullshit they want.
8:25 Please be for real.. and share more with others!
My dad was on B17 during WWII. Numerous missions.
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