Forrest General Hospital
6051 U.S. Highway 49
Hattiesburg, MS, 39401
(601) 288-7000

Our Mission

To provide high-quality health services accessible and available to the residents of South Mississippi

Our Vision

In the years ahead, Forrest General Hospital will maintain its role as the hub of the South Mississippi region's health care
delivery system, continuing efforts to establish an integrated provider network that offers a responsive continuum of care
in accessible settings.

Latest Happenings

1995

• Construction completed on Phase VII, adding 165 new patient rooms.
• Forrest General receives an "Excellence Award" in the Mississippi Quality Awards Competition.
• The Pine Grove Counseling Center of Jackson opens.

1996

• Forrest General opens the Fifth Floor Terrace, an open-air courtyard for patients, visitors, and employees above the A-wing.
• The Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory expanded and relocated.
• Forrest General constructs an elevated parking garage.
• Lowery A. Woodall retires as executive director of Forrest General. William C. Oliver is named the new executive director.

1997

• Construction begins on a free-standing facility for Forrest General Cancer Center.
• Forrest General neurosurgeons begin using a revolutionary new device known as the Stealth System to perform delicate neurosurgical procedures.
• The Pine Grove Counseling Center of McComb opens.

1998

• A new home care facility opened on South 28th Avenue in Hattiesburg.
• The Pine Grove Counseling Center of Meridian opens.

1999

• The new Forrest General Cancer Center opens at 301 South 28th Avenue in Hattiesburg.

2000

• The Pine Grove Counseling Center of Picayune, available 24 hours, seven days a week, begins operation at 2005 Wildwood in Picayune.
• Forrest General Hospital and Hattiesburg Clinic consolidates their existing occupational medicine programs to form HealthWorks LLC, a complete package of occupational medicine services for businesses and organizations.
• Lowery A. Woodall Outpatient Surgery Facility expands and remodels to add new spaces for patients and employees.
• Pine Grove opens Renaissance, a regional residential eating disorder treatment facility for women 18 years and older. The facility is located at 2807 Arlington Loop
  in Hattiesburg.

2001

• Forrest General's Diabetes Care Center, Outpatient Nutrition Services, Weight Management, Lipid Clinic, CardioPulmonary Rehabilitation, Smoking Cessation and
  Congestive Heart Failure Clinic, along with Hattiesburg Clinic's Endocrinology Department and Ost Pine Grove dedicats new and expanded facilities for its "Next Step" program at 2255 Broadway Drive.

2002

• The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) celebrates its 25th anniversary.
• Forrest General celebrates its 50th anniversary with three days of celebrations at the Hattiesburg Lake Terrace Convention Center.
• The Mississippi State Department of Health announces the permanent designation of Forrest General Hospital as a Level II Trauma Center.
• Cardiovascular surgeon Robert Robbins begins leading a FDA study to evaluate patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft procedures at Forrest General, one of 100 hospitals in the United States selected to participate.

2003

• Forrest General expands its Dialysis Unit from seven dialysis stations to 12.

Affiliated with

• The University of Southern Mississippi
• University of Mississippi Medical Center
• William Carey College
• Jones County Junior College
• Pearl River Community College
• Louisiana State University
• University of Tennessee
• University of Texas
• M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

A member of

• American Hospital Association
• Voluntary Hospitals of America
• Mississippi Hospital Association
• National Association for Home Care
• Mississippi Association for Home Care

Accreditations

• The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
• College of American Pathologists
• American College of Radiology
• American Association of Blood Banks
• American Sleep Disorders Association

Approved by

• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for participation in Medicaid and Medicare Programs
• American Medical Association as Type I Continuing Medical Education Center
• Mississippi State Medical Association as sponsor of Intrastate Continuing Medical Education
• American College of Surgeons Cancer Program.