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Kings Daughters Hospital in Greenville on Wednesday, November 9, 2022. The hospital closed in March 2005. Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi Today

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‘What’s your plan, watch Rome burn?’: Politicians continue to reject solution to growing hospital crisis
By SARA DINATALE - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Wed,11/16/22-5:00PM , 289 Reads 7,441 Statewide
Mississippi’s only burn center has closed. The Delta’s only neonatal intensive care unit has closed. A Jackson hospital that serves vulnerable populations is gutting key services to balance its budget. One of the state’s largest hospitals is months, if not weeks, from shutting its doors for good.
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Local and state leaders pose at the Singing River Healthcare Academy's groundbreaking ceremony on Nov. 10, 2022. (Photo: Sara DiNatale)

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Singing River breaks ground on Mississippi’s first medical apprenticeship facility
By SARA DINATALE - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Fri,11/11/22-9:00AM , 1,050 Reads 10,224 Statewide
Amber Granger, 38, took her first health care job more than two decades ago as a nursing assistant.

She went back to school to be a lab technician, then moved into management. She dreamed of becoming a nurse but she couldn’t give up her income – or take on anymore student debt – for nursing school.
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James Croft checks the inventory at Farmacy Marketplace in Webb, Miss., Friday, October 28, 2022. Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi Today

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‘A blessing to the community’: New Black-owned grocery opens to serve small Delta town
By SARA DINATALE - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Tue,11/08/22-10:16AM , 508 Reads 15,971 Statewide
Marquitrice Mangham didn’t just want to create the grocery store her hometown desperately needed. She wanted to bolster the Delta’s long-struggling food system.
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Amber and Denisha Glenn pose inside a former Tuesday Morning store in Columbus. They leased the space hoping their business would become one of Mississippi's first licensed medical marijuana dispensaries. Credit: Sara DiNatale/Mississippi Today / Mississippi Today

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$40k in fees, land surveyors, and a lot of research: How Columbus sisters finally got their cannabis dispensary approved
By SARA DINATALE - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Fri,11/04/22-11:56AM , 344 Reads 15,511 Statewide
Denisha and Amber Glenn saw a whole future inside an abandoned Tuesday Morning.

The shuttered retail store was the perfect home for the sisters’ business venture: Holistika. In their vision, Holistika would be one of Mississippi’s first medical marijuana dispensaries.
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