Beyond Health Care: Mississippi Hospitals As Vital Economic Engines
-   Full report
-    Statewide economic impact/facts & figures
-   Regional impacts (by Department of Health service areas)
-   RIMS multipliers (the multipliers used to quantify economic impacts of state and regions)

• Bills to Watch This Week:
  State
  - Special Session is recessed until Aug. 4
  - Click here for all state bills being monitored by MHA
  National
  - H.R. 6331 - Legislation that would prevent a July 1 Medicare physician payment cut from taking effect
• MHA Grassroots Action Alerts
• Sign up for the Action E-List
• Find Your Elected Officials
• Follow Current Legislation
• MHA's Legislative Liaison (Daily news updates during the Mississippi Legislative Session. Also sign up to receive updates via e-mail.)
• Mississippi's Congressional Delegation
• Mississippi Officials and Agencies
• MegaVote (track your legislators' votes via e-mail). Track the votes of state legislators here.
• Register to vote or change your address for voting (Mississippi residents)

• Comparison of the Governor's Medicaid plan
• MHA Bulletin: Survey and Certification Hospital Regulations
• Register now for the 2008 MHAPAC Golf Tournament at Dancing Rabbit Golf Club in Philadelphia, Miss.
• Judge Singletary rules Barbour's proposed GRT unconstitutional
• CMS releases RAC Evaluation Report
• Fact Sheet: CMS' plan to transition responsibility for measuring and preventing improper payments to inpatient and long-term care hospitals from QIOs to other Medicare contractors
• Tobacco Free Hospitals
• MHA's comment letter on CMS' proposed Medicaid cuts
• CMS' proposed rules on IGTs and its effect on Mississippi hospitals
• MHA Fact Sheet: Mississippi's Medicaid DSH program
   

• MHA News Now 
• MHA's Executive Briefing
• MHA's Legislative Liaison     
• News Around the State
• MHA Online Photo Album
• MHA Resource Guide
• MyMHA
• Mississippi Hospitals magazine
• Mississippi Patient Safety Coalition 

August 20 - CSR Summer Program, MHA Conference Center, Madison

August 28 - Inpatient Rehab PPS Documentation Workshop, MHA Conference Center, Madison

Sept. 3-4 - MHA Board Retreat, The Alluvian Hotel, Greenwood

September 23 - Today’s Union Challenges to Hospitals, MHA Conference Center, Madison

September 24 - ICD-9-CM Update Workshop, MHA Conference Center, Madison

Oct. 17 - MHA Board Meeting, MHA Conference Center, Madison

For MHA educational offerings, visit the MHA Education Calendar.