Ochsner Rush Medical Center in Meridian, Mississippi, is a 215-bed acute care facility. Specialty care, facilities and services available at Ochsner Rush Medical Center include a Level III Trauma Center in the 24-hours-a-day, physician-staffed emergency department; the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, a 12-bed unit that offers a special quality of care for premature and high-risk infants; the Family Birth Center; the Diabetes Management Center; the GI Lab; the Joint Replacement Center; the Pain Treatment Center; Sleep Centers; Surgical Robotics; The Vein Center; and Senior Care – Intensive Outpatient Program. In addition, Rehabilitation Services, housed in a 17,632-square-foot facility, earned recognition from Focus on Therapeutic Outcomes (FOTO), a nationally recognized management system. Rehabilitation Services offers services that include physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, aquatic therapy and a Reading Clinic. The Cardiology Department, located in the hospital, provides cardiac care including prevention, detection, treatment and an array of noninvasive testing equipment and procedures, including treadmills, nuclear medicine, echocardiography, arrhythmia detection and pacemaker evaluation. Ochsner strives to provide patients in east Mississippi and west Alabama with quality care and services within easy traveling distances.

Ochsner Rush-affiliated physicians specialize in diverse areas such as allergies; anesthesiology; cardiology; dermatology; ear, nose and throat/otolaryngology; emergency medicine; endovascular surgery; family medicine; gastroenterology; general surgery; hospitalists; hyperbaric; internal medicine; neonatology; neurology; obstetrics and gynecology; orthopaedics and sports medicine; pain management; pathology; radiology; sleep medicine; urology; vascular surgery and wound care.

Parking

Patients visiting Ochsner Rush Medical Center or the Ochsner Rush Ambulatory Care Center may take advantage of convenient parking in the visitor parking lot outside the Ambulatory Care Center, located on 18th Avenue.

Visitors may cross over to the hospital by going to the second floor of the building.
Patients visiting the Ochsner Rush Medical Group may park in the visitor parking lot outside the Ochsner Rush Medical Group building.

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