Senator Hyde-Smith supports common-sense, patient-centered healthcare reforms to help Mississippi families afford health insurance coverage without expanding the government’s role in providing health care. She believes the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, should be repealed.
Senator Hyde-Smith appreciates the role of the state’s universities to support federal research on better prevention and treatment efforts on chronic diseases, like diabetes, that affect Mississippians disproportionally.
News Mississippi
COVID-19 Accountability Act targets China
By Andi Davis
New legislation would authorize sanctions if China fails to cooperate in the investigation of the coronavirus pandemic.
U.S. Senators Cindy Hyde-Smith and Roger Wicker have joined an effort to hold the Chinese government...
Indianola Enterprise-Tocsin
Sunflower County to Get Share of Food and Shelter Funds
05/12/2020 - 2:19PM
Mississippi will receive $3.6 million from FEMA’s Emergency Food and Shelter Program (EFSP) to assist nonprofits that are helping residents who are experiencing hunger and homelessness.
Sunfl...
Life News
New York Times: Coronavirus is No Reason to Stop Killing Babies in Abortions
By Dave Andrusko
When I saw this article in the New York Times, I forwarded it to a number of friends with the following in the subject box: “Is the NYTimes brazen, or what?”
One paragraph of background to...
Fox News
Graham introduces bill to sanction China if it refuses to cooperate on coronavirus investigation
By Adam Shaw
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on Tuesday introduced legislation that would allow President Trump to impose a wide range of sanctions on the Chinese government if it refuses to...
WDAM-TV Hattiesburg
Hattiesburg-based company awarded $10.3M Farmers to Families Food Box contract
By WDAM Staff
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded a $10.3 million contract to Hattiesburg-based Merchants Foodservice for the Farmers to Families Food Box Program...
HYDE-SMITH ANNOUNCES $1.74 MILLION FROM FCC TO BOOST FOUR MISS. TELEHEALTH PROGRAMS
UMMC and Providers in Brandon, Leland & Meadville Receive COVID-19 Telehealth Awards
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced that four Mississippi providers will receive more than $1.74 million from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to expand telehealth services during the coronavirus health emergency.
The University...
HYDE-SMITH: USDA APPROVES $8.26 MILLION FOR WATER SYSTEMS UPGRADES IN RURAL MISS.
Rural Development Grant-Loan Funds Provided to Five Mississippi Communities
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), who serves on the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee, today announced $8.26 million in U.S. Department of Agriculture guaranteed loans and grants to support water and wastewater infrastructure projects in five rural Mississippi communities.
Systems in Adams...
Indianola Enterprise-Tocsin
Delta Health Center Gets More Funding For COVID-19 Testing
By BRyan Davis
Mound Bayou-based Delta Health Center has received more funding to increase COVID-19 testing capacity.
According to a release from U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith this week, the health center...
Vicksburg Post
Port Gibson health facility to receive federal money to expand COVID-19 testing
By Staff Reports
For weeks, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Claiborne County remained in the single digits. It then crept higher, before spiking in the past week to now 33 confirmed cases.
Th...
WTOK-TV Meridian
National Nurses Day: Celebrating nurses as superheroes
Posted: Wed 4:34 PM, May 06, 2020
MERIDIAN, Miss. (WTOK) - Anderson Regional Health System adopted a superhero theme for its observance of National Nurses Day.
Nurses were also treated to breakfast as a way of saying thanks...
