Singing River Hospital

Description

Our Mission
Singing River Health System exists to improve the quality of life in our community by delivering worldclass health care and wellness services

Our Vision
The vision of Singing River Health System is to be a worldclass health system performing among the nations very best in the areas of clinical quality patient satisfaction employee and physician relations community service and stewardship

History

History
Singing River Hospital originally known as Jackson County Hospital was the first communityowned and operated hospital in the State of Mississippi

19301931 Construction on the original hospital began in 1930 and was completed by early 1931

On February 1 1931 Jackson County Hospital opens to the public with a 23bed capacity and a medical staff of eight

19311959 To meet the medical needs of the community over the next 28 years the original Jackson County Hospital constructs two major additions that increases its bed capacity to 75

1959 The System completes a replacement facility which increases capacity to 122 beds and the facilitys name changes to Singing River Hospital

1966 Singing River Hospital opens the first 24hour physicianstaffed Emergency Department in the state one of the first six of its kind in the United States

1968 Ocean Springs Hospital opens as a 34bed satellite facility in western Jackson County

1972 Addition to Ocean Springs Hospital

1977 Addition to Ocean Springs Hospital

1982 First Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit on the Mississippi Gulf Coast opens at Singing River Hospital

1987 Singing River Hospital brings the first Magnetic Resonance Imaging MRI System to the Mississippi Gulf Coast

1993 Comprehensive heart surgery program begins at Singing River Hospital

1994 The Regional Cancer Center opens at Singing River Hospital bringing comprehensive cancer care to Jackson County

1997 A stateoftheart Womens and Childrens Floor opens at Ocean Springs Hospital

2002 A new 12bed Intensive Care Unit opens bringing the total number of beds at Ocean Springs Hospital to 136

2002 The Systems Heart Program expands to Ocean Springs Hospital with a new alldigital Cardiac Catheterization Lab the first of its kind in the state

2003 The Regional Cancer Center at Singing River Hospital becomes the first facility on the Mississippi Gulf Coast to perform Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy

2004 The Regional Cancer Center becomes the first facility in south Mississippi to introduce Telesynergyreg technology allowing the Hospital System to videoconference and exchange data with other health care institutions throughout the nation and the world

20052006 For two years in a row Singing River Health System is named one of Solucients 100 Top Performance Improvement Leaders in the nation

2007 Singing River Health System is one of two sites in the nation chosen to host an Action Learning Lab in coordination with the American Hospital Associations Health Research and Educational Trust HRET