Success Stories by State: Mississippi

• Community-Based Care for Persons Living with Type 2 Diabetes
  July 2009
  The Community-based Care for Persons Living with Type 2 Diabetes program was designed to prevent complications commonly associated with type 2 diabetes.
• Delta Community Partners in Care
  January 2008
  Delta Community Partners in Care (DCPIC) is a coalition of partners serving a rural area in the Mississippi Delta region of northwest Mississippi. Its target population is the uninsured or underinsured who have a diagnosis of diabetes, hypertension, or both.
• Maternal Infant Health Outreach Worker Program
  October 2007
  The Vanderbilt Center for Health Services’ Maternal Infant Health Outreach Worker (MIHOW) program provides early intervention services to low income families in Nashville as well as other urban and rural areas in Appalachia and the Mississippi delta, including Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and West Virginia.
• Claiborne County Rural Health Care Services Outreach project
  January 2007
  The Claiborne County Rural Health Care Services Outreach project will operate three school-based health clinics to provide primary health care, prevention services, and health education on topics such as diet, nutrition, exercise, high-risk behavior prevention, and tobacco use prevention to students in grades K-12 in the Claiborne County Public School District.
• TelEmergency
  January 2006
  In response to a lack of emergency care and physicians in many rural areas of Mississippi, the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMC) has developed and directs the operation of a rural health telemedicine initiative called TelEmergency. Rural hospitals have contracted with UMC to allow the Emergency Medicine specialist backup for the nurse practitioners who completed the program and were hired by the local facility. When these nurse practitioners staff the rural Emergency Department, they communicate with Emergency Medicine physicians at UMC via T-1 lines and a sophisticated telemedicine setup.
• Humphreys County Memorial Hospital Rural Health Outreach Program
  July 2005
  The project's main goals were to increase the numbers of K - 12 students who are covered by health insurance, who use the health care services provided, and who follow up on recommended health care; to increase transportation to primary and specialty health providers; and to decrease the number of families of K - 12 students who are noncompliant in regard to their children's health needs.