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 […]
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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
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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
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OCH Regional Wound Healing & Hyperbaric Center has been named a 2018 nominee for the Freedom Award, which is the highest honor the U.S. Department of Defense bestows to civilian entities. Jimmy Vaughan, a volunteer with the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR), presented the certificate to the Center’s program director Brad McKenzie
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OCH Regional Medical Center will host its 23rd Annual Maternity & Infant Fair Saturday, June 2 from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. in the OCH Ed Facility. Event coordinator and OCH Perinatal Educator Paula Hamilton, RNC-OB, IBCLC, said two new additions to the fair this year include the recently opened Childhood Academy at East Mississippi
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OCH Regional Medical Center Administrator/CEO Richard Hilton announced his retirement Wednesday after 35 years of service to OCH and a total of 44 years in the field of healthcare. “This retirement will allow me to spend more quality time with my wife, La Rue, our seven children and 14 grandchildren,” said Hilton. “I am proud
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Since 1991, our country has recognized physicians every year on March 30 for their work and contributions to society and their communities. Behind every physician is a story about what inspired him or her to choose the field of medicine or select what specialty to practice. While Eli Howell, MD, knew he wanted to follow
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If there’s ever a good place to go into cardiac arrest, Dave Bragg found it inside the OCH Healthplex, across from the Cardiac Rehab department and steps away from the automated external defibrillator (AED). Bragg said Monday, December 18 was just like any other day at the OCH Wellness Connection where he routinely rides for
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OCH Regional Wound Healing & Hyperbaric Center welcomes Brad McKenzie as the Center’s new program director. In this position, McKenzie is responsible for overseeing the clinic’s day-to-day operations such as quality management, reimbursement, performance improvement, and community education “I’m proud to be a part of a team of true professionals who treat our patients with
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Dear Editor: My purpose in writing this letter is to correct any misleading information, misstatements or implications of wrongdoing by OCH. The following documentation is in response to Supervisor Miller’s recent Letter to the Editor, as well as posts to her Supervisor Facebook page. Related to Letter to Editor 9/24/17: Not Fact: Supervisor Miller by referencing
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