37-115-27 - Location of school and hospital. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 37-115-27. Location of school and hospital.
 

The medical school and teaching hospital shall be built and equipped together, in connection with each other, or as nearly together or connected as may promote the most efficient operation of both of them in proper coordination one with the other. The medical school and teaching hospital shall be located and built upon part of the lands owned by the State of Mississippi in or near the City of Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi, and commonly known as the old asylum lands, to be selected by the State Building Commission. The medical school and teaching hospital may have other locations as determined to be reasonable and necessary by the University of Mississippi Medical Center. All University of Mississippi Medical Center locations shall provide in the aggregate not less than fifty percent (50%) of their services to indigent persons including qualified beneficiaries of the State Medicaid Program. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1942, § 6708-04; Laws,  1950, ch. 378, § 4; Laws, 1996, ch. 496, § 1, eff from and after passage (approved April 11, 1996).