Merit Health Biloxi Awarded Gold Certification

11/18/2016

Merit Health Biloxi is pleased to announce that they have received a Gold certification from the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR). The Mississippi Cancer Registry began a certification process in 2008 for hospitals modeled after the central cancer registry certification conducted by the NAACCR. The purpose of the certification process is to recognize those hospitals who have submitted timely, complete and high quality data to the Mississippi Cancer Registry. Certification this year is based on the diagnosis year 2014 data.

Merit Health Biloxi is pleased to have received this Gold certification for actual measures for the required criteria. Merit Health Biloxi’s staff has worked hard to achieve this goal as it is an outstanding accomplishment.

Merit Health Biloxi is a 153 bed acute care facility with an additional 45 psychiatric beds located in Biloxi, Mississippi. Our mission is the delivery of compassionate and high quality health care services that improve the quality of life for our patients, physicians and the communities we serve.

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