Medical Services at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Yazoo

Emergency Services

Baptist Memorial Hospital-Yazoo’s Emergency Department is equipped with leading-edge monitoring and life support equipment. The ED 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 (ACLS), Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS), Trauma Nurse Core Certification (TNCC) and/or Certified Emergency Nurse (CEN).

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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 0. 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 662-751-8245.

Laboratory

Baptist Memorial Hospital-Yazoo’s Clinical Laboratory is a full-service lab located within the main hospital and offers both inpatient and outpatient laboratory services. For more information, please call 662-751-8163.

Outpatient Physical Therapy

At Baptist Memorial Hospital-Yazoo, our licensed physical 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/Sports injuries
Joint replacement
Recovery from surgery
Arthritis
Rheumatic disease
Neurological impairments
Chronic pain

Pharmacy

Our up-to-date computerized pharmacy is staffed by registered pharmacists and certified technicians that specialize in hospital pharmacy care for all ages.

Radiology - Imaging Services

Our imaging department delivers high-quality, diagnostic expertise with convenience in mind. We offer basic X-rays, CT scans, DEXA scans (bone mineral density imaging), digital mammography, nuclear medicine and ultrasounds. For more information, please call 662-751-8164.

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

For more information, please call 662-751-8162.

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 long-term care and back again to meet patients’ needs. When patients’ conditions are no longer considered acute, they can be swung to an area for a lower level of medical and nursing supervision called a swing bed.

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, 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. Also, the patient must have received three calendar days of acute care as a hospital inpatient prior to being admitted to the Swing Bed Unit.

Phone: 662-751-8237 or 662-571-2120

Fax: 662-751-8233

Outpatient Specialty Services

Baptist Memorial Hospital-Yazoo has visiting specialists that hold clinics on the second floor of 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! All referrals should be scheduled through appropriate physicians’ offices with the exception of GI Associates.