University of Mississippi Medical Center | |
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Geography | |
Location | 2500 N. State St., Jackson, Mississippi, United States |
Coordinates | 32°19′44″N 90°10′23″W / 32.328853°N 90.173159°W |
Organization | |
Type | Public Academic Medical Center |
Services | |
Emergency department | Level I |
Beds | 722 |
Helipad | FAA designator: 4MS6 |
History | |
Opened | 1955 |
Links | |
Website | www |
University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) is the health sciences campus of the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) and is located in Jackson, Mississippi, United States. UMMC, also referred to as the Medical Center, is the state's only academic medical center.
UMMC houses seven health science schools: Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, Health Related Professions, Graduate Studies in the Health Sciences, Population Health and Pharmacy. (The main School of Pharmacy is headquartered on the University of Mississippi (UM)[1] campus in Oxford, Mississippi.) The 164-acre campus also includes University Hospital, Wiser Hospital for Women and Infants, Conerly Critical Care Hospital, Children's of Mississippi (including the Blair E. Batson Tower and the Kathy and Joe Sanderson Tower), the state's only children's hospital, and Rowland Medical Library.[2]