University of Mississippi Medical Center

University of Mississippi Medical Center
Map
Geography
Location2500 N. State St., Jackson, Mississippi, United States
Coordinates32°19′44″N 90°10′23″W / 32.328853°N 90.173159°W / 32.328853; -90.173159
Organization
TypePublic
Academic Medical Center
Services
Emergency departmentLevel I
Beds722
HelipadFAA designator: 4MS6
History
Opened1955
Links
Websitewww.umc.edu

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]

  1. ^ "University of Mississippi". www.olemiss.edu. Retrieved 2015-09-02.
  2. ^ "Library Home - University of Mississippi Medical Center". Retrieved 2015-09-02.