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Muggie Brooks sits in her wheelchair at her kitchen table and pauses from eating her chicken-pot-pie to get her COVID-19 vaccination. “That’s it?” she asked. “You didn’t even interrupt dinner!” The 90-year-old lifelong Starkville resident was one of eight people OCH Regional Medical Center Paramedics Shedrick Hogan, NREMT-P, and Stephen Pannell, NREMT-P, made home visits […]

OCH Regional Medical Center will begin Friday, April 9th making home visits to provide COVID-19 vaccinations to the homebound. The vaccines will be administered by paramedics with OCH EMS who will monitor patients for a minimum of 15 minutes after giving the shot. “These patients who are homebound are some of our most vulnerable, and

For 27 years, Charlotte Cox has worked as a registered and licensed occupational therapist and recently expanded her scope of service to include lymphedema therapy. This form of specialized therapy has always been an interest for Cox, but the intense out-of-town two week course followed by an exam just didn’t seem feasible for a busy

OCH Regional Medical Center has expanded access to care in Ackerman with the addition of Certified Family Nurse Practitioner Amanda Miller at Parsons Family Medical Clinic. Amanda joins board-certified family medicine physician Dr. Morris Parsons, who has more than 35 years of experience in primary care. A native of Ackerman, Miller joined OCH in 2006,

OCH Regional Medical Center has been named a COVID-19 Center of Excellence by the Mississippi State Department of Health for its commitment to COVID prevention and treatment. OCH, along with 41 healthcare facilities throughout the state, received this designation that was awarded based on the following criteria: A COVID patient receives Monoclonal Antibody Therapy at

Appointments to receive the COVID vaccine are filling up as quickly as they become available, and not only at OCH Regional Medical Center but also across the state. Terri Blake, RN, administers a COVID vaccine during a clinic held at OCH for those who are 75 or better. On Tuesday, Governor Reeves announced people ages

In order to expedite the COVID vaccination process, OCH Regional Medical Center will assist the Mississippi State Department of Health by providing a COVID vaccine clinic on Tuesday, January 12 to those 75 years and older. The vaccinations will be administered by OCH nurses and will take place in the hospital’s community room located adjacent

Forty-one of OCH Regional Medical Center’s allotment of 700 doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccination were administered Tuesday at OCH to employees of the Longest Student Health Center at Mississippi State University. Brent Crocker, MSU Emergency Manager “Today, we’re focusing on our frontline healthcare workers to make sure they have the protection they need to

OCH Regional Medical Center employees considered most at risk for COVID-19 exposure began receiving the much-anticipated COVID vaccine on Monday afternoon. The hospital received its allocation of 100 doses of the Moderna vaccine on Monday morning. OCH Pulmonologist and Critical Care Specialist Dr. Harry Holliday was the first patient to receive the vaccine. “This is