Greenwood Leflore Hospital

Hospital Profile:

• Greenwood Leflore Hospital is a 208-bed Regional Medical Center that has been providing medical services for the residents of Greenwood, Mississippi and surrounding communities for the past 102 years.
• The service area population for Greenwood Leflore Hospital is 300,000.
• The Hospital’s medical staff is comprised of 62 Active/Associate medical staff members, representing 20 medical specialties.
• The hospital has taken great strides to make patient care more efficient as well as safer. They have added state-of-the-art “smartâ€? beds, a new nurse paging system and a more advanced clinical information and patient monitoring system.
• Greenwood Leflore Hospital has a total of 9 ICU beds and 6 telemetry beds.
• The Emergency Room hosts 15 new treatment beds, its own X-ray Department and lab. The ER receives approximately 37,500 visits with an average of 10,314 admissions per year.
• Greenwood Leflore Hospital is fully accredited by The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations.
• Greenwood Leflore Hospital houses the privately owned Greenwood Specialty Hospital, a 40-bed Long Term Acute Care Hospital, on the second floor.

Hospitalist Program Profile:

• The Hospitalist Team of 8 Physicians will provide adult inpatient care 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Each full time Hospitalist will provide up to 192 hours of clinical professional medical services per month.
• The Hospitalist Team will attend adult medicine inpatients, from admission to discharge, and will provide, as necessary, a variety of procedures in the ICU, respond to codes, unassigned ED call and complete consultations as requested.

Community:

• Greenwood, the county seat for Leflore County, boasts a population of a little less than 19,000 citizens.
• Greenwood is the only place in the world where parallel rivers, less than two miles apart, flow in opposite directions.
• Greenwood is home to Viking Appliances and also hosts the world famous Viking Cooking School featuring chefs from around the world and a monthly schedule of activities.
• The Alluvian Hotel is a chic, boutique hotel located directly across from the Viking Cooking School that offers world class accommodations, the services of the Alluvian Spa and Giardina's Restaurant, a gourmet treat.  
• The Community of Greenwood has a street so beautiful that it was aptly named "One of the 10 Most Beautiful Streets in America."
• Exceptional dining opportunities include the barbeque of Memphis, a short drive North as well as Lusco's in Greenwood and Doe's in nearby Greenville.
• Greenwood also hosts the site where the Union Army ship "Star of the West," which had been captured by Confederate forces off the Texas coast and moved up the Yazoo to Greenwood, was sunk at Fort Pemberton to render the channel impassable to Union forces.
• Greenwood is a place where the pies have won their own awards, a place where you can take a cooking class with some of America's best-known chefs, and a place where one can enjoy a lovely afternoon on the veranda.
• Greenwood is the gateway to the Delta. Located at the eastern edge of the Mississippi Delta with access to airports in Memphis, Tennessee and Jackson, Mississippi.
• The Greenwood community features world class shops and galleries including Russell's Antique's, for European antiques and estate jewelry, and TurnRow Books, an independent bookstore featuring a comprehensive collection in addition to Delta blues and other local music.    
• In the twenty-first century Greenwood is experiencing a cultural renaissance. Its historic downtown boasts dozens of completed renovations with several others in progress. All the while, Greenwood has retained its small-town beauty, Delta personality and deep-South hospitality.
• Greenwood offers to its residents and visitors, numerous festivals, productions, parades, celebrations, and concerts throughout the year and is also known as birthplace of Kermit the Frog.
• Leflore County is rich in history and full of promise now and in the future.