North Mississippi Health Services is made
up of six hospitals.
We have four nursing homes
and about 118 other facilities throughout our 24 county region
in Northeast Mississippi and northwest Alabama.
We have approximately 6,200 employees
and over 500 physicians that provide services
in our catchment area is 750,000 people.
We actually have a varied population base here.
It does tend to be a little lower
on the socio-economic scale that you'd find
in some larger metropolitan areas.
We put our patients first.
That's a continual focus from the senior leadership team
and also a continual communication reminder
to our staff of that's why we're here, that's why we come
to work every day is to take care of people.
Our mission statement is to actually improve the health
of the people that we serve and, as such, that includes people
that need our care on an acute care type basis, but, also,
part of our mission statement to continuously improve the health
of the people of or region is to improve health.
And prevention is a large part of that.
We recognize that people are what make this organization.
It's not the buildings, it's not the technology,
it's not the fancy MRI, or the new CAT-scanner
or the fancy lab equipment.
It's the people that actually provide the care.
We recognize as a core competency that we need
to provide a culture or an environment
where those people can do what got them into healthcare
in the first place, and that's to help people
and to make a difference in people's lives.
All the decisions that we make, basically we start
with the question of "how would the employees react?"
or "how is this going to impact employees?"
And, we recognize that employees have to be happy.
They have to feel good about coming to work every day.
We know if we have an engaged, fired-up, motivated group
of employees and physicians coming to work every day,
that the service is going to be better, the quality is going
to be higher, and if we're doing those three things well then we
know that the financial results that occur because of focusing
on the right things, are going to help us be one
of the best in the country.
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