Mississippi Administrative Code
Title 15 - Mississippi Department of Health
Part 8 - Office of Health Policy and Planning
Subpart 90 - Planning and Resource Development
Chapter 05 - Acute Care Facilities and Services Overview
Section 15-8-90-05-500 - General Medical/Surgical Hospitals

Universal Citation: MS Code of Rules 15-8-90-05-500
Current through September 24, 2024

When calculating the occupancy rate using total licensed bed capacity, the overall occupancy rate drops to 36.26 percent. Table 5-1 shows the licensed Mississippi hospital beds by service areas.

These statistics indicate an average daily census in Mississippi hospitals of 3,819.87. Seventy-four (74) of the state's hospitals reported occupancy rates of less than forty percent (40%) during FY 2020.

Mississippi requires Certificate of Need (CON) review for all projects that increase the bed complement of a health care facility or exceed a capital expenditure threshold of $5 million for clinical services or $10 million for non-clinical services. The law requires CON review regardless of capital expenditure for the construction, development, or other establishment of a new health care facility, including a replacement facility; the relocation of a health care facility or any portion of the facility which does not involve a capital expenditure and is more than 5,280 feet from the main entrance of the facility; and a change of ownership of an existing health care facility, unless the MSDH receives proper notification at least thirty (30) days in advance. A health care facility that has ceased to treat patients for a period of sixty (60) months or more must receive CON approval prior to reopening. A CON is required for major medical equipment purchase if the capital expenditure exceeds $1.5 million and is not a replacement of existing medical equipment.

A statewide glut of licensed acute care beds complicates planning for community hospital services. There are far more hospital beds than needed. The average use of licensed beds has been less than fifty percent (50% percent) in recent years. With few exceptions, the surplus is statewide. The continued presence of surplus hospital beds in all planning districts, and in nearly all counties with acute care hospitals, raises a number of basic planning questions:

* Does the "carrying cost" of maintaining unused beds raise operating cost unnecessarily?

* Do the surpluses, and any associated economic burdens, retard the introduction of new and more cost effective practices and services?

* Do existing service providers maintain unwarranted surpluses to shield themselves from competition, as argued by some potential competitors?

* Should the space allocated to surplus beds be converted to other uses, particularly if doing so would avoid construction of new space, or facilities, to accommodate growing outpatient caseloads?

* Do the large surpluses mask need for additional services and capacity in some regions and reduce the sensitivity and responsiveness of planners and regulators to these legitimate community needs?

* Do the continuing surpluses, and the view of them by stakeholders and other interested parties, create an environment that invites policy intervention by legislators and other responsible parties?

These questions are unusually difficult to answer definitively. The fact that they arise frequently suggest the importance of reducing excess capacity where it is possible to do so and is not likely to result in problematic consequences. MSDH urges each hospital to voluntarily reduce the licensed bed capacity to equal its average daily census plus a confidence factor that will assure that an unused hospital bed will be available on any given day.

Table 5-1

Licensed Short-Term Acute Care Hospital Beds by Service Area FY 2020

Facility

Licensed Beds

Abeyance Beds

Daily Census

Occupancy Rate

Length of Stay

General Hospital Service Area 1

514

22

212.87

41.41

3.97

Alliance Healthcare System, Inc.

40

8.85

22.12

8.65

Baptist Memorial Hospital - DeSoto

309

160.33

51.89

4.06

Methodist Healthcare Olive Branch Hospital

69

29.57

42.85

3.11

North Oak Regional Medical Center - Senatobia*

0

N/A

N/A

N/A

Panola Medical Center

96

22

14.13

14.72

3.94

General Hospital Service Area 2

1143

45

424.06

37.10

4.64

Baptist Memorial Hospital - Booneville

104

17.55

16.87

7.07

Baptist Memorial Hospital - Union County

145

16.57

11.42

2.66

Laird Hospital

25

15.75

63.02

13.18

Magnolia Regional Health Center

200

77.23

38.61

4.40

North Mississippi Medical Center

571

286.64

50.20

4.75

Pontotoc Health Services

25

0.00

0.00

2.48

Tippah County Hospital

25

45

4.33

17.30

2.93

Tishomingo Health Services, Inc.

48

6.00

12.49

3.17

General Hospital Service Area 3

887

41

199.88

22.53

4.49

Bolivar Medical Center

164

1

29.76

18.15

4.17

Delta Regional Medical Center

195

58.36

29.93

4.48

Delta Regional Medical Center - West Campus

67

40

6.46

9.64

4.27

Greenwood Leflore Hospital

188

50.54

26.88

4.15

North Sunflower Medical Center

35

12.77

36.47

6.44

Northwest Mississippi Medical Center

171

21.74

12.71

3.97

South Sunflower County Hospital

49

7.32

14.94

3.24

Tallahatchie General Hospital

18

12.93

71.84

13.03

General Hospital Service Area 4

1138

59

291.82

25.64

3.30

Baptist Memorial Hospital - Calhoun

25

4

2.84

11.38

3.44

Baptist Memorial Hospital - Golden Triangle

307

86.00

28.01

4.35

Baptist Memorial Hospital - North Mississippi

204

69.60

34.12

3.08

Choctaw Regional Medical Center

25

1.69

6.75

3.40

Monroe Regional Hospital

35

9.08

25.96

6.71

North MS Medical Center - Gilmore Memorial

45

18.94

42.09

1.09

North MS Medical Center - West Point (Clay County)

43

13.54

31.48

3.54

Noxubee General Critical Access Hospital

25

3.20

12.80

3.22

Oktibbeha County Hospital

90

18.40

20.45

3.21

Trace Regional Hospital

84

10.40

12.39

10.14

Tyler Holmes Memorial Hospital

25

3.10

12.40

3.45

University of Mississippi Medical Center - Grenada

142

14

18.04

12.70

3.78

Webster Health Services, Inc.

38

20.75

54.62

5.89

Winston Medical Center

24

41

10.97

45.71

4.37

Yalobusha General Hospital

26

5.26

20.22

3.10

General Hospital Service Area 5

2959

183

1329.46

44.93

3.80

Baptist Medical Center - Leake, Inc.

25

4.69

18.74

3.61

Baptist Medical Center - Yazoo, Inc.

25

4.32

17.27

3.87

Claiborne County Hospital

32

8.89

27.78

6.79

Copiah County Medical Center

25

10

5.29

21.16

3.73

Holmes County Hospital and Clinics

25

10

1.69

6.77

2.90

Magee General Hospital

44

20

7.12

16.19

4.51

Merit Health Central

304

143

99.07

32.59

5.18

Merit Health Madison

67

11.44

17.07

3.16

Merit Health Rankin

134

26.23

19.57

5.49

Merit Health River Oaks

160

34.18

21.36

4.06

Merit Health River Region

321

80.93

25.21

5.72

Merit Health Woman's Hospital

109

7.96

7.30

4.56

Mississippi Baptist Medical Center

541

256.12

47.34

4.88

Patients' Choice Medical Center of Smith County

29

6.21

21.42

11.78

S.E. Lackey Memorial Hospital

35

17.78

50.80

7.25

Scott Regional Hospital

25

1.23

4.94

3.38

Sharkey - Issaquena Community Hospital

29

6.38

22.00

6.64

Simpson General Hospital

35

9.13

26.10

6.90

St. Dominic - Jackson Memorial Hospital

536

354.92

66.22

2.57

University of Mississippi Medical Center

458

385.88

84.25

5.12

General Hospital Service Area 6

825

105

289.22

35.06

4.88

Alliance Health Center

154

98.03

63.65

7.99

Anderson Regional Medical Center

260

71

104.70

40.27

4.03

Anderson Regional Medical Center South Campus

49

7.90

16.13

11.76

H.C. Watkins Memorial Hospital

25

1.06

4.25

4.49

John C. Stennis Memorial Hospital

25

0.84

3.37

2.67

Neshoba County General Hospital

48

34

16.21

33.77

4.30

Rush Foundation Hospital

215

47.35

22.02

3.86

Wayne General Hospital

49

13.13

26.80

3.94

General Hospital Service Area 7

579

16

13.69

21.28

3.76

Beahcam Memorial Hospital

31

6

11.45

36.93

6.11

Field Health System

25

3.05

12.19

3.66

Franklin County Memorial Hospital

25

10

1.03

4.13

2.83

Jefferson County Hospital

30

3.68

12.27

8.52

King's Daughters Medical Center

99

23.26

23.50

2.69

Lawrence County Hospital

25

7.46

29.84

6.18

Merit Health Natchez

159

44.83

28.20

4.92

Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center

160

27.52

17.20

2.58

Walthall General Hospital

25

0.93

3.70

3.22

General Hospital Service Area 8

1,153

41

471.92

40.93

4.39

Covington County Hospital

35

2.27

6.49

3.41

Forrest General Hospital

513

288.59

56.26

4.27

Greene County Hospital

7

3

0.37

5.23

2.63

Jasper General Hospital

16

0.27

1.69

3.67

Jefferson Davis General Hospital

25

0.85

3.39

3.21

Marion General Hospital

49

30

6.20

12.66

4.35

Merit Health Wesley

211

85.90

40.71

5.14

Perry County General Hospital

22

8

0.33

1.48

2.77

South Central Regional Medical Center

275

87.14

31.69

4.21

General Hospital Service Area 9

1,336

46

477.44

35.74

4.11

Garden Park Medical Center

130

23.64

18.18

3.08

George Regional Hospital

48

8.67

18.07

3.14

Highland Community Hospital

49

46

14.08

28.74

3.91

Memorial Hospital at Gulfport

254

153.16

60.30

4.23

Merit Health Biloxi

153

49.63

32.44

3.48

Ocean Springs Hospital

136

90.97

66.89

4.15

Ochsner Medical Center - Hancock Medical Center

102

8.04

7.88

3.00

Pearl River County Hospital

24

0.71

2.96

2.99

Singing River Hospital

415

123.27

29.70

4.76

Stone County Hospital

25

5.27

21.09

5.74

Total:

1 0,534

558

3,819.87

36.26

4.05

Note: * North Oak Regional Medical Center - Senatobia closed in FY 2018; the hospital reopened in July 2021 as Highland Hills Hospital.

Note: Regency Hospital of Hattiesburg closed in FY 2018

Source: Applications for Renewal of Hospital License, FY 2020 Annual Hospital Report.

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