IT HAPPENS EVERY DAY. Children are struck down by illness and injury. It may begin with a simple cough or an accident, and often it strikes with sudden, unrelenting violence. Thousands of Mississippi children and their families must deal with this reality each year. At the Blair E. Batson Hospital for Children, staff members work hard to overcome these obstacles. They cannot do it alone. It takes support from the community to keep the hospital on the cutting edge of contemporary health care.
We treat all children regardless of ability to pay. Batson Hospital is a teaching and research hospital, and relies on the support of individuals and others to help children get the care they deserve. In the last year, the Blair E. Batson Hospital for Children averaged 9,000 admissions, and more than 150,000 youngsters from all of Mississippi's 82 counties were treated in its clinics and emergency room.
Our Facilities
We treat the whole child, not just the disease. Constructed in 1997, Batson Hospital is filled with the state-of-the art equipment to provide the best treatments for patients and the staff works hard to fulfill our mission of family-centered care.
Many of the treatment programs at Batson Hospital are not available anywhere else in Mississippi. Batson Hospital is home to the state's only children's cancer clinic, its only comprehensive cystic fibrosis program, and its only epilepsy center.
The Children's Rehabilitation Center also offers a full range of services from evaluation to therapy for children with physical and mental disabilities.
The Children's Justice Center provides non-traumatic medical examinations and treatment for physically abused, neglected and /or sexually abused children.
For more information about the services offered at Batson Hospital or to make an appointment, please visit the University of Mississippi Health Care website at www.umhc.com. Or you can click here to visit the Department of Pediatrics website.
Eli Manning Children's Clinics
Since the Batson Hospital opened, the Medical Center has continued to look at the health care needs of its youngest patients. In 2007, NFL quarterback Eli Manning pledged through the Friends of Children's Hospital to raise the $2.5 million needed to fund the renovation of the pediatric clinics.
The newly-completed, state-of-the-art, 15,600 square-foot Eli Manning Children's Clinics are a critical component of health care delivery for more than 75,000 Mississippi children. The clinics have two treatment rooms, an infusion area and twenty-four exam rooms, one of which houses a pulmonary function machine specifically designed for assessing conditions such as asthma, pulmonary fibrosis and cystic fibrosis.
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Pediatricians work alongside pediatric specialists in the clinics, which offers a range of services including well-child visits, a vaccination program and acute care in orthopedics, cardiology and endocrinology.
Pediatric Emergency Department
Now that the clinics have been moved to their new location, work begins on our pediatric emergency department. As Mississippi's only Level I emergency room designed specifically for children, Batson's emergency department staff provide services which cannot be duplicated anywhere else in the state. However, the emergency room was built more than 20 years ago. Approximately 17,000 patients were treated annually when it opened. Today, that number has nearly doubled. The current facilities were simply not designed to handle this patient volume.
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