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Meanwhile Reeves, who has publicly clashed with the state hospital's chief executive officer over his lax COVID-19 policies, approved $7 million for a not-for- ...

The state’s highest court went a step further, with six of the nine justices saying that legislators did not have standing to challenge a governor’s partial veto in court. Mississippi has lost more than 2,000 nurses over the course of the pandemic due to burnout or higher paying jobs in other states, often in travel nursing. In rulings going back to the 1800s, state courts had significantly limited the governor’s authority to veto portions of appropriations or spending bills until a 2020 Supreme Court decision. UMMC is a public hospital owned by the state. He accused the hospital of “willingly” turning away patients on private insurance, a reference to UMMC’s contract dispute with Blue Cross that has resulted in the hospital going out of network with the insurer. The hospital is receiving other ARPA funding for improvements to teaching facilities, including $55 million for its School of Nursing building.