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OCH Regional Medical Center was awarded an ‘A’ in fall 2019 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade a national distinction recognizing OCH’s achievements protecting patients from harm and providing safer health care. The Leapfrog Group is an independent national watchdog organization committed to improving health care quality and safety for consumers and purchasers. The Safety Grade assigns […]

In his traditional attire of a short-sleeved white button-down shirt and pressed black pants, Jimmy Linley hands over his hospital trustee badge. Even board members of 35 years don’t get to keep those. “There’s a time and a place for everything, and it’s my time to go,” Linley said on his last day of serving

Standing side-by-side in the hallway of The Family Clinic, Dr. Steven Brandon and Dr. Emily Landrum quietly type notes on their laptops. Dr. Brandon appears to have a bit of trouble with his computer, and when asked if Dr. Landrum ever has to help him with technology, he quickly responds with a “no.” She smiles

Monday morning Everlyn Johnson woke up to find a toilet in her front yard. “When I first looked out the window, I could only see the flowers so I went outside and saw the toilet, and it was quite attractive. I couldn’t believe it could be so pretty!” laughed Johnson. Johnson had her suspicions the

Alex Daly, 20, is a junior at Mississippi State University studying software engineering. He does all the typical things that college students do, including playing video games and the guitar, but maybe a little differently. Alex was born with a congenital absence of his left arm below the elbow. While he’s had various prosthetic arms throughout

Through medical mission work, a physician from Ghana was able to connect with the staff at OCH Regional Medical Center this week to expand and improve the healthcare in his hometown. Dr. Thomas Cobb with Starkville Clinic for Women and a member of the medical staff at OCH took a mission trip to Ghana in

A new affiliation between Oktibbeha County Hospital Regional Medical Center in Starkville and the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson will strengthen and expand health care services in Starkville and the Golden Triangle. The affiliation, announced June 26, brings the medical education, research and advanced health care offerings of Mississippi’s only academic medical center

OCH Regional Medical Center is proud to announce James “Jim” Jackson, CPA, as its new administrator/CEO. Jackson boasts 31 years of extensive administrative, operational, financial, information systems and public accounting experience, with nearly 20 years at Greenwood Leflore Hospital where he served as CFO from 1999-2009 and CEO from 2009-2018. The 248-bed, city/county- owned rural