Mississippi Administrative Code
Title 15 - Mississippi Department of Health
Part 8 - Office of Health Policy and Planning
Subpart 90 - Planning and Resource Development
Chapter 06 - Comprehensive Medical Rehabilitation Services
Section 15-8-90-06-600 - Comprehensive Medical Rehabilitation Services
Comprehensive medical rehabilitation (CMR) services are intensive care services that treat patients with severe physical disabilities by providing a coordinated multidisciplinary approach that requires an organized program of integrated services. Level I facilities offer a full range of CMR services to treat disabilities such as spinal cord injury, brain injury, stroke, congenital deformity, amputations, major multiple trauma, polyarthritis, fractures of the femur, and neurological disorders. Level II facilities offer CMR services to treat disabilities other than spinal cord injury, congenital deformity, and brain injury.
The bed capacity, number of discharges, average length of stay, and occupancy rates for Level I and Level II CMR facilities are listed in Tables 6-1 and 6-2, respectively.
Table 6-1
Hospital-Based Level I CMR Units
FY 2020
Facilities |
Licensed Bed Capacity |
Average Daily Census |
Average Length of Stay |
Occupancy Rate (%) |
Baptist Memorial Hospital - DeSoto |
30 |
15.45 |
11.51 |
51.51 |
Delta Regional Medical Center - West Campus |
24 |
6.76 |
11.26 |
28.16 |
Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital* |
43 |
32.40 |
11.70 |
98.00 |
Forrest General Hospital |
26 |
18.49 |
13.75 |
71.11 |
Mississippi Methodist Rehab Center |
80 |
53.22 |
15.52 |
66.52 |
North Miss Medical Center |
30 |
24.65 |
13.92 |
82.17 |
State Total/Average |
233 |
25.16 |
12.94 |
66.25 |
Source: Applications for Renewal of Hospital License, FY 2020 Annual Hospital Report
* Facility surveyed.
Table 6-2
Hospital-Based Level II CMR Units
FY 2020
Facility |
Licensed Bed Capacity |
Abeyance Beds |
Average Daily Census |
Average Length of Stay |
Occupancy Rate (%) |
Baptist Memorial Hospital - North Miss |
13 |
5.84 |
10.19 |
44.95 |
|
Greenwood Leflore Hospital |
20 |
10.50 |
12.12 |
52.49 |
|
Merit Health Natchez |
20 |
7.92 |
11.51 |
39.60 |
|
Delta Health - Northwest Regional * |
14 |
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Anderson Regional Medical Center South |
20 |
13.88 |
10.78 |
69.38 |
|
Singing River Hospital * |
20 |
15.56 |
11.64 |
77.79 |
|
State Total/Average |
93 |
14 |
10.74 |
11.25 |
56.84 |
Source: Applications for Renewal of Hospital License, FY 2020 Annual Hospital Report
Note(s): Singing River Hospital was CON approved August 2018 to convert eight (8) Level II beds to Level I beds.
Delta Health - Northwest Regional f/k/a Northwest MS Regional Medical Center placed all fourteen (14) of their rehab beds in abeyance effective July 1, 2013.
Applications for Renewal of Hospital License for Calendar Year 2016; FY 2017 Annual Hospital Report