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About Our Program

The UMMC Mississippi Burn Center offers comprehensive, multidisciplinary, individualized care for adult and pediatric burn and wound patients. We work toward definitive wound closure as soon as possible, while also prioritizing the wound’s appearance. We are keenly focused on treatment that optimizes the patient to be as functional as possible. Our commitment is to achieve the best results possible for every patient.

Our program features:

• On-site adult and pediatric specialists in every discipline necessary for complete burn care
• Staffing by critical care nurses specially trained in burn care
• A protected environment dedicated exclusively to the care of burn patients
• An eight-bed unit, each room fully equipped to provide MedSurg step-down or ICU-level care
• In-unit dedicated debridement room
• In-unit rehabilitation gym
• Dedicated case management and workers’ compensation liaison
• Child life specialists for pediatric patients
• Psychiatric support
• Outpatient adult and pediatric clinics
• Telehealth-enabled monitors in each room