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Hattiesburg's Expanding Hospitals
As quality-of-life indicator and major employment sector, the Pinebelt Region’s health-care industry does double duty – and does it very well. Through hospitals, clinics and other facilities, Hattiesburg is the center of a 17-county health-care region that employs more than 8,200 people and generates more than $400 million a year in payroll. Add to that the secondary market of service providers and others who support the industry, and it’s easy to see why... Read More »
Hattiesburg Clinic Offers State-of-the-Art Care
If more is better, than things are very good indeed at Hattiesburg Clinic. The clinic has been providing quality heath-care services around Hattiesburg since 1948, and now is housed a six-story, 225,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility. In addition, Hattiesburg Clinic operates 19 family-practice satellite clinics, three immediate-care clinics and 12 dialysis units around southeast Mississippi. It’s that ability to reach into communities and provide... Read More »
University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg Boosts Economy
It would be enough if the University of Southern Mississippi simply carried out its work of providing a high-quality education to some 16,000 students at its main campus in Hattiesburg and five teaching and research sites on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
The university, founded in 1910, offers 90 undergraduate degree programs in a range of studies, as well as 75 graduate and doctoral programs.
But its work is felt beyond the classroom and deep into the Pine Belt, where its knowledge... Read More »
