COMMITTED TO SERVING For more than 25 years, Baptist DeSoto has given patients across Northwest Mississippi a place to find quality, specialized care. Its colleagues dedicate each day to raising the standard for clinical excellence, and their hard work has paid off in consistent national recognition for high quality outcomes.
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n 1988, DeSoto County had
was growing and Baptist knew
professional office building that
177-acre development. Thatt
it
accommodated
was
a
was mainly a rural area with
care system. On August 22, 1988,
and about 300 employees. Our
for
a
a population just a little more
we opened the doors to a 130-
total investment was estimated
community.
than 68,000. But the population
bed
at $100 million and covered a
In
a
about
three
restaurants
and
needed
a
first-rate
hospital
with
health
adjoining
25
physicians
large
investment,,
rural
farming g
for
By the year 2000, the county had
time the fourth largest city y
DeSoto County was the fastest
Diagnostics
our
almost fully transformed itself
in the state. Baptist DeSoto o
growing county in the state
Emergency Room was expanded
from a traditional agricultural
responded with continued d
of Mississippi and we quickly
to four times its original size.
economy to an urban suburb
growth
realized we needed to expand
Since then, we’ve had to expand
of Memphis. Only three dairies
an expansion of both our r
our ou ur ur
a
remained.
Critical Care Unit and our r
the
early
1990s,
services. servi se ervices rv rvi vc vi ces es e es. s.
As As
however,
a
result, re r esu sul ullt, t,
freestanding
total ttota ota ota al
of of
Center
opened
four
and
times
over
Women’s
Center
arrive at the current a ar r
where cotton fields and cow
we
humbled
each h
size s si i
pastures had been. In the new
year
welcome
aboutt
average seeing 60,000 a av v
millennium,
County
2,000 babies to new life..
patients p pa a
opened
center,
As a result of continued d
where a
we year,
growth, the hospital began to treat patients from surrounding
emergency room in e em m
and a DeSoto County Historical
counties.
the tth h Mid-South.
Museum. Southaven was at the
In
strong EMS
partnership and
law
a
enforcement we’ve been able to
major regional referral center
aid in the response of critical
serving 20 counties throughout
events like Hurricane Katrina
North Mississippi. This growth
and the H1N1 national “swine
and
flu” epidemic. We are honored to
services
positioned us as one of the top
to
where e
School Campus on Getwell Road,
local
of
civic
are
adult
busiest
with
expansion
DeSoto new
stood
tthe th h
crises.
hospital
its
now
the new DeSoto County Central
rooms,
community-based
malls
making our hospital m
capable of responding to major
former
in n
shopping
story bed tower with all private our
and
investing
twenty-five years to tw w
In 2006, we opened a new elevenmaking
Subdivisions
by
support these statewide efforts.
medical facilities in the state,
Today, Tod To Tod continue con co c on expand, ex exp xp xp
we
practices. pra p r cti ctices ct ces s. We We are ar re e proud prou pr pro ud d to o host host hos
hospital hospit hos piittal pi al was wa as ranked ra n ranke ra nke nk ked ed in in the th he e top top to p
to
the first rehabilitation garden
10%
in
rehabilitation services, the only
add
the
Mid-South, Lab
the
featuring
first
hospital
in
for
inpatient
Mississippi
rated
advanc e d
Skills
t e c h n o l o g y,
patients, and the only hospital
five-star for the treatment of
and an nd d invest in
in
floor
heart attacks, and was named
highly skilled hig hig h
dedicated solely to the treatment
the Best Large Employer by the
physician
of elderly patients. Recently, our
Memphis Business Journal.
Mississippi
with
robotic
nationally
a