Beyond Health Care: Mississippi Hospitals As Vital Economic Engines
-   Full report
-    Statewide economic impact/facts & figures
-   Regional impacts (by Department of Health service areas)
-   RIMS multipliers (the multipliers used to quantify economic impacts of state and regions)

• Bills to Watch This Week:
  State
  - S.B. 3212 - Medicaid deficit funding plan
  - Health Data Registry
  - Tobacco tax to fund Medicaid, trauma care
  - Trauma care funding bill (Roll call vote)
  - Click here for all state bills being monitored by MHA
  National
  - H.R. 5613 - Delays until April 1, 2009, Medicaid regulations that cost hospitals about $50 billion pver five year
  - H.R. 5480/S. 2662 (Medicare funding warning bill)
  - H.R. 2091/S. 1963 (Allows bonds guaranteed by the Federal Home Loan Banks to be treated as tax-exempt bonds)
  - H.R. 1424 (Mental health parity)
• MHA Grassroots Action Alerts
• Sign up for the Action E-List
• Find Your Elected Officials
• Follow Current Legislation
• MHA's Legislative Liaison (Daily news updates during the Mississippi Legislative Session. Also sign up to receive updates via e-mail.)
• Mississippi's Congressional Delegation
• Mississippi Officials and Agencies
• MegaVote (track your legislators' votes via e-mail). Track the votes of state legislators here.
• Register to vote or change your address for voting (Mississippi residents)

• VIDEO: WLBT Editorial Board (Hospital tax vs. tobacco tax)
• VIDEO: HB 1013 discussion/vote
• House Passes Cigarette Tax Bill - House Bill 1013 (roll call vote)
• ASC's Medicare Advantage Bulletin
• AHA's Rehabilitation Action Kit - Tools to help hospitals advocate for S. 543 and H.R. 1459
• Tobacco Free Hospitals
• MHA's comment letter on CMS' proposed Medicaid cuts
• CMS' proposed rules on IGTs and its effect on Mississippi hospitals
• MHA Fact Sheet: Mississippi's Medicaid DSH program
   

• MHA News Now 
• MHA's Executive Briefing
• MHA's Legislative Liaison     
• News Around the State
• MHA Online Photo Album
• MHA Resource Guide
• MyMHA
• Mississippi Hospitals magazine
• Mississippi Patient Safety Coalition 

July 9 - MHA Membership Meeting, Hilton Hotel, Jackson, 2 p.m.

July 16 - Skilled Nursing Facility Workshop, MHA Conference Center, Madison

July 30 - Workshop on Sustainability & Compliance in the HC Industry, MHA Conference Center, Madison

Sept. 3-4 - MHA Board Retreat, The Alluvian Hotel, Greenwood

Oct. 17 - MHA Board Meeting, MHA Conference Center, Madison

For MHA educational offerings, visit the MHA Education Calendar.