Medical Services at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Attala

Emergency Services

Baptist Memorial Hospital-Attala’s Emergency Department is equipped with leading-edge monitoring and life-support equipment. The Emergency Department is staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week with emergency physicians and nursing personnel who hold various advanced credentials, such as Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Pediatric Advanced Life Support and Trauma Nurse Core Certification.

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Geriatric Psychiatry Outpatient – Senior Life Solutions (SLS)

Senior Life Solutions’ Intensive Outpatient Programs are short-term day programs that provide support and treatment for adults 55 years old and older who are facing emotional or mental difficulties. These programs are designed for older adults who require more help than regular outpatient counseling, but not inpatient treatment. These individuals might be dealing with the following emotional/mental difficulties:

• Isolation from family/friends
• Depression/Sadness
• Feelings of worthlessness
• Suicidal thoughts/behaviors
• Crying spells
• Sleeping too much/too little
• Paranoia
• Hallucinations/Delusions
• Anxiousness/Worry
• Memory loss

Senior Life Solutions Day Programs are conveniently located in the hospital. As a family member or friend, you may contact our Senior Life Solutions unit for a referral and free assessment, which can be performed in the home setting. For more information, please call 662-289-4311.

Infusion therapy

Baptist Attala’s Infusion Clinic is located inside the main hospital and offers outpatient infusion therapy services and IV therapies including antibiotics, steroids, Reclast for osteoporosis, blood and others. For more information, please call 662-289-4311.

Laboratory

Baptist Attala has a full-service clinical laboratory located within the main hospital and offers both inpatient and outpatient laboratory services. For more information, please call 662-289-4311.

Outpatient Therapy

Our team of licensed physical, occupational and speech therapists specialize in addressing impaired movement, functional limitations, disabilities or changes in health status as a result of injury or disease. Our goal is to help patients achieve a more active, independent lifestyle by overcoming conditions, such as:

• Balance and walking disorders
• Generalized and local weakness
• Decreased functional and localized mobility
• Postural and structural abnormalities
• Pain caused by a range of injuries and disorders
• Orthopedic and sports injuries
• Joint replacement
• Recovery from surgery
• Arthritis
• Rheumatic disease
• Neurological impairments
• Chronic pain
• Cognitive decline
• Swallow dysfunction
• Disorders of speech and voice production

For more information about our outpatient therapy services, please call 662-289-4311.

Radiology and Imaging Services

Our imaging department delivers high quality, diagnostic expertise with convenience in mind. We offer basic X-rays, computed tomography scans, DEXA scans (bone mineral density imaging), digital mammography, nuclear medicine and ultrasounds. For more information, please call 662-289-4311.

Respiratory Care

Our team of respiratory care providers works closely with patients and their physicians to determine the best course of treatment and to provide quality care. Our services include:

• Inpatient respiratory care
• Oxygen therapy
• Nebulizer treatments
• Ventilator management
• Electrocardiogram (EKG)
• 24-hour Holter Monitoring (heart monitoring)
• Arterial blood gas analysis
• Pulmonary function testing
• Cardiac stress testing
• Home Sleep Studies
• Electroencephalogram (EEG)

For more information, please call 662-289-4311.

Swing Bed (Skilled Nursing Transitional Rehab Program)

Swing Bed refers to a general acute care hospital bed that can be swung from acute care to a lower level of care and back again to meet a patient’s needs. Typically, the type of patient who would benefit from this service is one whose condition has improved after hospitalization but is still in need of more time for continuous care before returning home or, in some cases, to a more supervised situation. Examples of conditions that qualify for swing bed care include physical therapy, intravenous (IV) hydration, complex wound care, infections requiring IV antibiotics, daily respiratory therapy requiring inhalation medications, unstable nutritional support requiring enteral feeding (tube feeding) and post-surgical care. The patient should have reasonable restorative or rehabilitative potential. Medicare patients must have received three calendar days of acute care as a hospital inpatient prior to being admitted to the Swing Bed Unit. For more information about our Swing Bed Unit please call us at 662-289-4311 or 662-290-3319 (Fax: 662-290-3287).

Outpatient Specialty Services

Baptist Attala has visiting specialists that hold clinics or performs procedures at the hospital on a weekly, biweekly and monthly basis. Many of our visiting specialists are the same qualified and knowledgeable physicians you see in Jackson, Mississippi…just closer to home! Referrals are required and should be scheduled through the appropriate physicians’ offices, except for Wound Care.