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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