BELZONI, Miss. (AP) - A $1 million federal grant is helping to pay for an after-hours clinic filling part of the gap left after a hospital closed in a rural Mississippi county.
The University of Mississippi Medical Center’s clinic will open late this summer in the delta town of Belzoni. A nurse practitioner will see patients from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. on weekdays and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekends.
The money will pay for improvements, including classroom space for educational programs and a community fitness room.
The clinic won’t offer primary care because the town already has physicians. But medical center officials say it’s hard for Humphreys County residents to get care after business hours for illnesses not severe enough for a hospital visit.
The 9,000-resident county’s hospital closed in 2013.
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