Jackson, Miss.-based Baptist Health Systems has agreed to operate Montfort Jones Memorial Hospital in Kosciusko, Miss.
Under the agreement, which Baptist made earlier this month with Attala County, Monfort Jones will become Baptist Medical Center-Attala. Baptist will begin operating the hospital June 1.
Baptist will operate the facility as a critical access hospital and continue to provide the core services now offered in the facility, according to a news release. The release notes that Baptist Medical Center in Jackson will serve as a referral hospital for specialties not offered in a critical access hospital setting.
The news comes as operating capital was drying up at Montfort Jones, and closure was inevitable, according to a report from The Clarion-Ledger.
According to the report, the hospital has laid off 38 employees and closed its intensive care unit in the past year.
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