Mississippi County Hospital System history

1973: An adolescent psychiatric unit was opened on third floor.

The Hinds-Rankin Urban Health Innovations Project (now the Rankin County Health Care Center) was initially housed at the medical center before relocating in 1981.

1983: The intensive care/coronary care Unit was expanded to six beds.

1986: In-house construction crews began the three-phase projects to update and expand the power plant, storeroom, environmental services and dietary departments.

1988: Gastroenterology was added to a growing list of specialties available at the medical center.

1990: Rankin General Hospital became Rankin Medical Center to signify the growth that had occurred at the facility in both size and scope of specialties and services, and physicians began performing joint replacement and laparoscopic gall bladder surgical procedures in our surgical suite.

1992: Rankin Medical Center became a smoke-free facility.

1994: The sub-acute unit, providing skilled nursing care to qualified patients, opened in October.

1996: The Senior Care program opened in July with housing for 14 gero-psych patients.

1998: The hospital received the Super Achievers Award from the Metro Jackson Chamber of Commerce.

2003: A new CT scanner was obtained by the hospital.

2004: In May 2004, an expansion of the hospital's dialysis Unit enabled six patients to be acutely dialyzed at one time.

2006: Rankin Medical Center was named one of the Best Places to Work in Mississippi in the Large Business category in the inaugural year of The Mississippi Business Journal's program.