About
Merit Health Central is a 319-bed healthcare facility that has been providing quality care to patients in central Misssissippi for over 40 years. Our core services include diagnostic and surgical cardiac services, obstetrics and women’s health, cancer care services, emergency care with FastTrack, diabetes management, inpatient and outpatient behavioral health services and surgery.
The medical staff at Merit Health Central features professionals in most health care specialties, including cardiology, cardiac surgery and thoracic surgery, family practice, internal medicine, medical oncology, radiation oncology, neurology, neurosurgery, neonatology, nephrology, otolaryngology, orthopedic surgery, plastic surgery, infectious disease, pulmonary medicine, gastroenterology, pain medicine, psychiatry, obstetrics/gynecology and urology.
Merit Health Central was the first hospital in Jackson to offer safer radiation treatments and gamma knife for cancer care. We were also one of the first hospitals in the nation to add a PET/CT scanner to thenuclear medicine department, and the first hospital in Mississippi to offer other health care programs such as balance and hearing, wound management and digital mammography combined with a special computer-aided detection system.
Our medical staff members and associates are the people who make Merit Health Central truly stand out. They make a difference in the lives of the people they serve - people like you - each and every day.