University of Mississippi Medical Center
| University of Mississippi Medical Center | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | 2500 N. State St., Jackson, Mississippi, United States |
| Coordinates | 32°19′44″N 90°10′23″W / 32.328853°N 90.173159°WCoordinates: 32°19′44″N 90°10′23″W / 32.328853°N 90.173159°W |
| Organization | |
| Hospital type |
Public Academic Medical Center |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Level I |
| Helipad | FAA designator: 4MS6 |
| Beds | 722 |
| History | |
| Founded | 1955 |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
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 six health science schools: Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, Health Related Professions, Graduate Studies in the Health Sciences and Pharmacy. (The main School of Pharmacy is headquartered on the University of Mississippi (UM) campus in Oxford, Mississippi.) The 164-acre campus also includes University Hospital, Wiser Hospital for Women and Infants, Conerly Critical Care Hospital, Batson Children’s Hospital, the state’s only children’s hospital, and Rowland Medical Library.
As the academic health sciences campus of the University of Mississippi, the Medical Center functions as a separately accredited, semi-autonomous unit responsible to the chancellor of the university and through him to the constitutional Board of Trustees of the State Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL). The University of Mississippi Medical Center is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) to award baccalaureate, master's and doctorate degrees.
The Medical Center also is accredited by The Joint Commission.
The IHL Board of Trustees appoints the UM chancellor, who then recommends a candidate for UMMC’s vice chancellor for health affairs. The vice chancellor also serves as the dean of the University of Mississippi School of Medicine. LouAnn Woodward, MD, was named March 1, 2015, to fill the vice chancellor position. She is responsible for the overall strategic direction of the Medical Center. She is the first woman and the 10th person to hold the post in the Medical Center’s 60-year history.
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