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 Blair E. Batson Hospital for Children The Blair E. Batson Hospital for Children at the University of Mississippi Medical Center is the only hospital in the state devoted exclusively to the care and treatment of sick and injured youngsters. More than 150,000 children from all of the state's 82 counties come to Children's Hospital each year. The spectrum of care ranges from well-child care for healthy newborns to care for cancer, birth defects, epilepsy, cystic fibrosis, trauma, sickle cell anemia, neurological disorders, pulmonary disease, allergies, diabetes and numerous other childhood illnesses.
Caring for patients from infancy to adulthood, Children's Hospital is designed to provide the best health care available for the 21st century. It includes a pediatric intensive care unit, a 24-hour Level I pediatric emergency/trauma center, children's rehabilitation center, child psychiatry unit, child development center, a state-of-the-art children's cancer clinic and general and subspecialty clinics. Batson Hospital also houses the state's only pediatric surgical facility, a state-of-the-art unit with seven operating rooms and expanded treatment areas which include a pediatric dental clinic and pulmonary and gastroenterology procedure rooms. |