Mississippi's Health Care Crisis

Leaders are ignoring the Mississippi health care crisis.
We aren’t.

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‘We have been struggling.’ As Mississippi’s health care crisis worsens, health department funding lags

The agency is experiencing a vacancy rate of over 40% across departments – meaning almost one of two jobs at the agency are not filled – according to Edney.

by Devna Bose June 7, 2023June 7, 2023

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‘We need to call her out’: Protesters seek to hold UMMC’s Woodward accountable for closing LGBTQ+ clinic

June 7, 2023June 7, 2023

St. Dominic lays off 5.5% of its workforce, halts mental health services

June 5, 2023June 7, 2023

‘The funding just isn’t there’: Yazoo health department reopens two days a week

June 2, 2023June 2, 2023

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We have launched a long-term project that focuses on the imminent crisis and potential solutions to it — including Medicaid expansion. Our project will, first and foremost, thoroughly define the extent of the Mississippi health care crisis. We will also define what, exactly, Medicaid is. And perhaps most importantly, we will squarely confront the politics of the crisis.

One year from now, when all 174 legislative seats and eight statewide offices are on the ballot, every voter will have the ability to intimately understand where their leaders stand on the health care crisis and what they have done — or not done — to address it. We’ll make sure of it.

Adam Ganucheau,
Editor-in-Chief

Leaders are ignoring the Mississippi health care crisis. We aren’t.

Our state’s leaders do not appear to be in any hurry to address Mississippi’s grim and growing health care crisis. So we’re launching a project to help hold them accountable.