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University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) is the health sciences campus of the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) and is located in Jackson, Mississippi, United States. UMMC, also referred to as the Medical Center, is the state's only academic medical center.
UMMC houses seven health science schools: Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, Health Related Professions, Graduate Studies in the Health Sciences, Population Health and Pharmacy. (The main School of Pharmacy is headquartered on the University of Mississippi (UM)[1] campus in Oxford, Mississippi.) The 164-acre campus also includes University Hospital, Wiser Hospital for Women and Infants, Conerly Critical Care Hospital, Children's of Mississippi (including the Blair E. Batson Tower and the Kathy and Joe Sanderson Tower), the state's only children's hospital, and Rowland Medical Library.[2]
The University of Mississippi Medical Center opened in 1955,[3] but its beginnings date to 1903 when a two-year medical school was established on the parent campus in Oxford. In that era, certificate graduates went out of state to complete their doctor of medicine degrees.
Finally, in 1950, the Mississippi Legislature enacted a law to create a four-year medical school associated with the University of Mississippi. On July 1, 1955, the state's new Medical Center, then commonly referred to as UMC, opened in Jackson, initially as a four-year medical school with medical and graduate students, interns and residents. As it had in Oxford, the School of Medicine offered both medical and graduate degree programs. The campus included a teaching hospital and a library.
The Oxford campus' nursing department moved to the Medical Center in 1956 and was granted school status in 1958. The School of Health Related Professions (SHRP) was added in 1971 and began offering baccalaureate curricula in 1973. The School of Dentistry was authorized in 1973, and its first students were admitted in 1975. The graduate program was elevated to school status in 2001 and designated the School of Graduate Studies in the Health Sciences.
The parcel of land on which UMMC's University Hospital sits was once the site of the Mississippi Insane Asylum,[4] which moved its operations in 1935 to Whitfield, Miss., and became Mississippi State Hospital.[5] The bodies of perhaps seven thousand patients have been found on campus in unmarked graves.[6]
At its opening in 1955, UMMC provided care to African-American patients, but the patient-care facilities were segregated by race, according to local laws in the South at the time. In 1963, civil rights leader Medgar Evers was rushed to UMMC after being shot at his home in Jackson, MS, but he died in the hospital emergency room. In 1964, UMMC became the primary medical provider for injured Freedom Riders.
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited federally funded institutions from discriminating. In 1965, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund filed a federal civil rights complaint against UMMC. Robert Q. Marston, MD, then medical dean and Medical Center director, developed a compliance strategy which included hiring the first black faculty member, and integrating the hospitals and clinics.[7]
At about the same time, Dr. Blair E. Batson,[8] chair of the Department of Pediatrics at UMMC, offered a position in the department's residency education program to Dr. Aaron Shirley, an African-American physician who had attended medical school in Tennessee. Shirley became the first African-American learner at UMMC when he entered the residency program in 1965.
In 1966, Sammie Long became the first Black woman to attend the school. In 1972, James Oliver became the school's first Black M.D.-degree recipient.[9][10]
In June 2023, the UMMC shut down its LGBT health clinic in response to legislative pressure.[11]
ミシシッピ大学の学術医療科学キャンパスとして、メディカルセンターは、大学総長に責任を負い、総長を通じて州立高等教育機関（IHL）の憲法上の理事会に責任を負う、独立した認定を受けた半自治的な組織として機能しています。ミシシッピ大学メディカルセンターは、南部大学学校協会大学委員会（SACSCOC）[ 12 ]によって、学士号、修士号、博士号を授与する認定を受けています。メディカルセンターは、ジョイント・コミッション[ 13 ]によって認定されています。
IHL理事会[ 14 ]はUM総長を任命し、総長はUMMCの保健担当副総長の候補者を推薦します。副総長はミシシッピ大学医学部の学部長も兼任します。ルーアン・ウッドワード医師[ 15 ]は2015年3月1日に副総長に任命されました。[ 15 ] [ 16 ]彼女は医療センターの全体的な戦略的方向性を担当しています。彼女は初の女性であり、この職に就いた10人目の人物です。
UMMCの35の学位プログラム[ 17 ]の登録者数は3,000人を超えています[ 18 ] 。州の医療ニーズを満たす専門家を供給するため、入学はミシシッピ州居住者に優先的に与えられています[ 19 ] 。
学生自治会（ASB）は、UMMCの学生自治組織です。学生の課外活動を組織し、学生の懸念、アイデア、質問を大学当局や地域社会に伝えるための仕組みとして機能します。
UMMCは、州内で唯一レベル1外傷センターに指定されている病院です。専門的な病院サービスには、介入型MRI、州内で唯一のレベル4新生児集中治療室（NICU）、内科、外科、心臓、神経科学、小児科の独立した集中治療室、心臓病の診断と治療を行う心臓ステーション、心不全クリニック、心臓、腎臓、肝臓、膵臓、角膜、骨髄移植プログラム、総合脳卒中ユニット、最先端の放射線画像システム、睡眠障害検査室、体外受精プログラム、および特別な薬剤サービスが含まれます。
A portion of land on the UMMC campus was once the site of the Mississippi Insane Asylum,[5] which moved its operations in 1935 and became Mississippi State Hospital.
UMMC has the only hospital in the state designated as a Level 1 trauma center, and the state's only Level 4 neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) located in the Wiser Hospital for Women and Infants. The Medical Center also has the only organ transplant (adult and pediatric) program and OB/GYN emergency room in Mississippi.
With a total of 1,003 beds, including Holmes County and Grenada locations, UMMC is the largest diagnostic, treatment and referral care system in the state. Based on the latest fiscal year (2013–14) statistics, inpatient admissions at the multiple locations totaled more than 33,000, with more than 487,000 hospital outpatient visits. The UMMC emergency rooms in Jackson had 70,000 visits, while Grenada had 18,324 and Holmes County had 6,657.[20]
Hospitals include:[21]
University Physicians (UP), the faculty group practice of the School of Medicine is the state's largest medical group representing more than 125 specialties. This network of providers includes more than 1,000 health care specialists and subspecialists.[21] UP providers see about 404,870 patients each year in 170 locations in 38 counties.[22]
UMMC faculty and advanced practice providers see patients at several on- and off-site clinics.
Specialized clinics include:
Other features and facilities include separate medical, surgical, cardiac, neuroscience and pediatric ICUs; University Heart for the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease; a heart failure clinic; a comprehensive stroke center; epilepsy center, state-of-the-art radiological imaging systems; a sleep disorders laboratory; an in vitro fertilization program; and special pharmaceutical services.
In 2007, professional football standout Eli Manning undertook a five-year campaign to improve UMMC's pediatric clinics. More than $2.9 million was raised, and the clinics were renamed Eli Manning Children's Clinics. In 2014, father Archie Manning and his family joined with UMMC to launch the Manning Family Fund for a Healthier Mississippi.[23] The donor-supported program boosts the Medical Center's commitment to improving Mississippians' health. The partnership between the Mannings and UMMC raises money to attack heart disease, kidney disease, diabetes, cancer, dementia and other health challenges confronting Mississippians.
UMMC outreach programs help fulfill the Medical Center's mission of improving the overall health of Mississippians. Efforts range from volunteer and pastoral services at UMMC to statewide emergency medical responses and state-sponsored outreach initiatives.
UMMC is the home for a variety of specialized health-care, research and education centers[24] and institutes,[25] including:
2003年、UMMCはジャクソンの救急医と3つの地方病院を通信技術でつなぐパイロットプログラムの開始を支援しました。このプログラムは現在、全米トップクラスのプログラムの一つである遠隔医療センターに成長しました。[ 27 ]
遠隔医療（テレヘルス）は、遠隔技術を用いて、糖尿病カウンセリングから集中治療室患者の遠隔モニタリングまで、幅広いサービスを提供するものです。UMMCの遠隔医療プログラムは、医師、専門医、看護師が直接診断や治療を行う仮想クリニックとして機能しており、月平均8,000件の相談に対応しています。
2015年、UMMCとデータ企業Venyu Solutions（2013年にEATELに買収）[ 28 ]は提携し、医療センターの遠隔医療サービスを拡大した。[ 29 ]
40,000平方フィートのUMMC遠隔医療センターVenyuテクノロジーキャンパスは、ミシシッピ州ジャクソンでデュバル・デッカー・アーキテクツによって建設されており、AIAミシシッピ賞の表彰を受けています。[ 30 ]
UMMC（ミシガン大学医療センター）と提携している独立した組織は、医療センターを支援するサービスを提供するため、以下のとおりです。
ミシシッピ大学医療センターのヘリコプター搬送プログラムは、1996年にジャクソンに拠点を置く1機のヘリコプターで運用を開始しました。ジャクソンを拠点とするAirCare 1ヘリコプターに、2009年春にメリディアンを拠点とするAirCare 2ヘリコプター、2016年春にゴールデントライアングルを拠点とするAirCare 3ヘリコプター、2017年にグリーンウッドを拠点とするAirCare 4ヘリコプターが加わりました。これらのヘリコプターの追加により、AirCareはUMMCだけでなく、患者の病状や負傷に応じて必要なレベルのケアを提供できる他の病院にも患者を搬送できるようになり、任務範囲を拡大しました。現場対応のプロファイルも変化し、1か所から複数の患者を搬送できるようになりました。プログラム開始以来、AirCareチームは2016年までに18,000人以上の成人、小児、新生児患者を200万マイル以上安全に搬送しました。[ 31 ] 2025年3月10日、AirCareのヘリコプターが患者を病院に搬送した後、マディソン郡で墜落しました。UMMCの医療スタッフ2名とパイロットが死亡しました。[ 32 ]
1万人以上の常勤および非常勤従業員を抱えるUMMCは、ミシシッピ州最大の雇用主の1つです。その年間予算は州の歳出予算の約1割を占め、ジャクソン都市圏の経済の10％、州経済の2％に相当します。[ 22 ]
平日には、従業員、学生、患者、家族、業者、その他の来訪者など、およそ2万人がUMMCのキャンパス内にいる。