Mississippi health system eliminates neurosurgery services in financial dip — 4 insights

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Singing River Health System will no longer provide neurosurgery services, according to The Clarion-Ledger. The health system encompasses Ocean Springs (Miss.) Hospital and Pascagoula, Miss.-based Singing River Hospital.

Here are four insights:

 

1. Ocean Springs Hospital will offer helicopter transportation to New Orleans-based Ochsner Medical Center for patients with head trauma.

 

2. Singing River Hospital is unable to afford to keep on its two neurosurgeons.

 

3. The health system has faced financial hardship in the last few years, with $35 million short of cash two years ago.

 

4. The hospitals have decreased operating expenses.

 

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