Mississippi Administrative Code
Title 15 - Mississippi Department of Health
Part 8 - Office of Health Policy and Planning
Subpart 90 - Planning and Resource Development
Chapter 03 - Mental Health
Section 15-8-90-03-307 - Private Distinct-Part Geriatric Psychiatric Services

Universal Citation: MS Code of Rules 15-8-90-03-307
Current through September 24, 2024

During 2020, twenty-one (21) Mississippi hospitals operated certified distinct-part geriatric psychiatric units (Geropsych DPU) with a total of 331 beds. Geropsych units receive Medicare certification as a distinct-part psychiatric unit but are licensed as short-term acute hospital beds. These Geropsych units served a total of 53,962 inpatient days of psychiatric services to patients aged fifty-five (55) and older.

The industry standard formula for determining Geropsych DPU bed need is 0.5 beds per 1,000 population aged fifty-five (55) and over. The State Data Center of Mississippi under the University of Mississippi Center for Population Studies, projects Mississippi will have 943,320 persons aged fifty-five (55) and older by 2025. This population will need a total of 472 Geropsych DPU beds. The optimum unit size of a Geropsych unit is twelve (12) to twenty-four (24) beds. Table 3-9 shows the state's twenty-one (21) distinct-part geriatric psychiatric units. County population projections can be found in Chapter 1 of this Plan.

The following facilities received approval through a Determination of Reviewability for the establishment of a Geriatric Psychiatric Distinct Part (Geriatric-Psychiatric DPU or Gero-psych) Unit/Service:

* Garden Park Medical Center (Add 8 beds) - Approved on 12/15/2017

* Garden Park Medical Center (Amendment to add 1 bed) - Approved on 10/19/2018

* Merit Health Wesley (Add 2 beds) - Approved on 3/15/2019

* Tippah County Hospital (Add 10 beds) - Approved on 12/23/2019

* Trace Regional Hospital (Add 8 beds) - Approved on 4/9/2020

Table 3-9

Geriatric Psychiatric Bed Utilization FY 2020

Facility

County

Licensed Beds

Inpatient Days

Occupancy Rate (%)

ALOS

Discharges

Discharge Days

State Total

331

53,962

44.54

11.98

4,492

53,794

General Hospital Service Area 1

22

906

11.25

9.75

93

907

Panola Medical Center

Panola

22

906

11.25

9.75

93

907

General Hospital Service Area 2

80

5,650

19.30

16.75

339

5,677

Alliance Health Care Center

Marshall

65

1,586

6.67

23.55

69

1,625

Baptist Memorial Hospital- Booneville

Perry

15

4,064

74.03

15.01

270

4,052

General Hospital Service Area 3

36

6,152

46.69

10.67

585

6,244

Bolivar Medical Center

Bolivar

12

2,852

64.94

11.17

257

2,870

Delta Regional Medical Center West Campus

Washington

14

393

7.67

7.02

56

393

North Sunflower Medical Center

Sunflower

10

2,907

79.43

10.96

272

2,981

General Hospital Service Area 4

38

8,043

57.83

12.85

614

7,888

Monroe Regional Hospital

Monroe

10

2,237

61.12

12.56

169

2,123

Trace Regional Hospital

Chickasaw

18

3,457

52.47

12.68

267

3,386

Winston Medical Center

Winston

10

2,349

64.18

13.37

178

2,379

General Hospital Service Area 5

77

17,251

61.21

12.07

1,426

17,214

Claiborne County Hospital

Claiborne

10

2,220

60.66

11.57

194

2,244

Merit Health Rankin

Rankin

18

4,702

71.37

11.56

396

4,578

Merit Health River Region

Warren

13

2,388

50.19

11.90

206

2,451

Mississippi Baptist Medical Center

Hinds

16

4,399

75.12

13.63

326

4,444

Sharkey- Issaquena Community Hospital

Sharkey

10

1,202

32.84

9.58

128

1,226

Simpson General Hospital

Simpson

10

2,340

63.93

12.90

176

2,271

General Hospital Service Area 6

38

7,006

50.37

10.97

639

7,012

Alliance Health Center

Lauderdale

12

2,089

47.56

9.39

227

2,131

Anderson Regional Medical Center South

Lauderdale

16

2,892

49.39

11.76

246

2,892

Neshoba County General Hospital

Neshoba

10

2,025

55.33

11.98

166

1,989

General Hospital Service Area 7

26

5,248

55.15

11.06

470

5,200

Beacham Memorial Hospital

Pike

14

3,084

60.19

10.56

292

3,084

Merit Health Natchez

Adams

12

2,164

49.27

11.89

178

2,116

General Hospital Service Area 8

14

3,706

72.33

11.20

326

3,652

Merit Health Wesley

Lamar

14

3,706

72.33

11.20

326

3,652

Source: Applications for Renewal of Hospital License for FY 2020; MSDH Division of Health Planning and Resource Development

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