Baptist Memorial Health Care and Lifepoint Rehabilitation, a business unit of Lifepoint Health, broke ground on a new 40-bed rehabilitation hospital on a four-acre lot in Madison, Mississippi, on Tuesday, Oct. 1. More than 40 community members and local business leaders attended the groundbreaking for Baptist Memorial Rehabilitation Hospital-Madison, which will offer physical medicine and rehabilitation, occupational therapy, speech-language pathology, social services and case management, and nutritional services.
“This is an exciting day for our team and the Madison community,” said Bobbie Ware, CEO and administrator of Mississippi Baptist Medical Center. “We have spent years planning this hospital and identifying ways Baptist can help expand access to quality and diverse health care in Madison and Mississippi. Seeing this project take off is beyond gratifying for me as a health care leader and citizen of Mississippi.”
The 56,000-square-foot facility will feature a secured acquired brain injury unit with private dining, a therapy gym and rooms for multiple therapy protocols. The hospital will also have a courtyard with miniature golf, nature therapy options and varied surface walking paths for patients receiving acute inpatient rehabilitation care for stroke, traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries, complex neurological disorders, orthopedic conditions, multiple traumas, amputation and other injuries or disorders.
“Lifepoint Rehabilitation is excited to build on our long-standing collaboration with Baptist Memorial Health Care in Germantown, Tennessee, through this new partnership with Mississippi Baptist Medical Center here in Madison, Mississippi,” said Russ Bailey, president of Lifepoint Rehabilitation. “We have considered best practices and the latest designs in rehabilitation to make sure we’re providing the most advanced and therapeutic environment in a high-tech and high-touch facility. Together, we will build a place of healing and recovery at our Madison rehabilitation hospital.”
Baptist Memorial Health Care filed a certificate of need for the new inpatient rehabilitation hospital in February 2022. Earl Swensson Associates is the architectural firm working on the project, and Brasfield & Gorrie has been engaged as the general contractor.
Lifepoint Rehabilitation is a leading partner of choice for many major hospital systems in the creation of joint venture operations that are industry-leading in clinical and financial outcomes. Through its 45 inpatient rehabilitation facilities and more than 250 hospital-based rehabilitation units, medical-surgical and outpatient therapy settings, Lifepoint Rehabilitation brings proven rehabilitation management and services expertise to help patients recover and return home quickly from a number of conditions, including strokes, brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, orthopedic injuries, neurological conditions, amputations and trauma. Lifepoint Rehabilitation is a business unit of Brentwood, Tennessee-based Lifepoint Health.
