QUALITY OF LIFE: HEALTH CARE

Baptist Memorial Hospital, located in Booneville, provides excellent quality health care for Prentiss County residents.

BAPTIST MEMORIAL HOSPITAL

Baptist Memorial Hospital is a 114-bed acute care hospital that began as Northeast Mississippi Hospital in 1948.  The hospital was among the first in the country to be built with monies from the Hill-Burton Act, which was designed to provide federal grants and guaranteed loans to improve the physical plants of the nation’s hospital system.

In 2008, BMH-Booneville had a payroll of over $10 million for its 253 employees.  The hospital treated over 35,000 patients in 2008, seeing over 15,000 in the Emergency Department. 

The average length of stay in the Emergency Department is 2 hours and 14 minutes, compared to the national average of 4 hours and 3 minutes.  The hospital is also consistently recognized for the outstanding quality of care and patient satisfaction results that it provides. 

BMH-Booneville was recognized in 2007 and 2008 by the Volunteer Hospital Association for its excellence in heart failure treatment and care, an award given to the top 10% of hospitals in the country. 

In 2008 and 2009, Healthgrades.com awarded the hospital the Outstanding Patient Experience Award for performing in the top 10% of quality and patient satisfaction scores of all hospitals in the United States.