Hancock Medical Center ~ Employee Update: September 13, 2005
Message to our Hancock Medical Center Family & Friends:
All staff must contact the hospital regarding work status as soon as possible. If work is unavailable, an employee may apply for disaster unemployment assistance by calling 1-888-844-3577.
Hancock Medical Center will offer an Employee Assistance Center Monday and Tuesday, Sept. 19 and 20 from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. Representatives from the Mississippi Hospital Association will also be available for unemployment assistance and employment placement information. Representatives from Select Administrative Services (SAS) will also be on-site Sept. 19-20. Other agencies will also be on hand for additional employee assistance.
The Emergency Department is scheduled to reopen at the end of September. Mitigation of flood damage on the first floor continues with removal of walls, flooring, equipment and furnishings. Sections are being sealed off systematically for drying to prepare for installation of new sheetrock and tile.
MEDICAL STAFF
Temporary medical offices (trailers) for use by HMC physicians are being obtained. Two internal medicine specialists (Rowe Crowder, M.D. and James Crittenden, M.D.) are seeing patients in a mobile unit on Drinkwater Boulevard and family practice physicians (David Roberts, M.D. and Ron Kellum, M.D.) are now seeing patients at their Diamondhead offices. Hancock Women’s Center (Dimitri Yanez, M.D. and Noel Duplantier, M.D.) will reopen in a mobile office in the next few days.
Telephone service to Hancock Medical Center is still unavailable. Please contact the hospital’s website at www.hmc.org for updates.
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