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News  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
November 4, 2019

Medicaid policy change targets access to care: Collaboration with Office of Mississippi Physician Workforce aims to boost primary care residency training

The Mississippi Division of Medicaid (DOM) has joined forces with the Office of Mississippi Physician Workforce (OMPW) to strengthen its support for physician residency training programs, a move that could create dozens of new training slots around the state in the next two years. Led by Dr. John Mitchell, a family physician from Pontotoc, the…
News  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
November 4, 2019

Based on absentee ballots, Mississippi on pace for very high turnout tomorrow

This morning the Secretary of State’s office announced that 58,070 absentee ballots had been requested by voting Mississippians for the November 5 General Election. A total of 51,318 absentee ballots have been received back to the Circuit Clerks’ offices. More than 1.9 million Mississippians are registered to vote in the upcoming election.  Census data estimates…