Comcare is the Sedgwick County, Kansas mental health department. Apple Bus provides transportation for patients from hospital to hospital throughout the state.

The G. V. (Sonny) Montgomery VA Medical Center, Jackson, MS, with 163 operating beds, provides primary, secondary and tertiary medical, surgical, neurological, and psychiatric inpatient care. Its primary service area is home to more than 125,000 veterans with about 45,000 unique patients and more than 300,000 patient visits. Services include radiation therapy, magnetic resonance imaging, hemodialysis, cardiac catheterization, sleep studies, substance abuse treatment, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), hematology/oncology, and rehabilitation programs. Both primary and specialized outpatient services are available, including such specialized programs as: ambulatory surgery, spinal cord injury, neurology, infectious disease, substance abuse, PTSD, readjustment counseling, and mental health diagnostic and treatment programs. Comprehensive health care is available for female veteran patients. A 120-bed nursing home care unit, five contractor operated Community-Based Outpatient Clinics, community contract nursing homes, four 150-bed state veterans nursing homes, and a variety of outpatient programs are utilized to support the needs of aging veterans. The G. V. (Sonny) Montgomery VAMC is the Clinic of Jurisdiction for the State of Mississippi and provides administrative support to the Office of the VISN 16 Network Director; the Veterans Outreach Center; the VBA Regional Office; and the National Cemetery in Natchez.

The University of Kansas Medical Center is a major research institution primarily serving the State of Kansas as well as the nation, and the world, and assumes leadership in the discovery of new knowledge and the development of programs in research, education, and patient care. The KU Medical Center recognizes the importance of meeting the wide range of health care needs in Kansas  from the critical need for primary care in rural and other underserved areas of the state, to the urgent need for highly specialized knowledge to provide the latest preventive and treatment techniques available. As the major resources in the Kansas Board of Regents system for preparing health care professionals, the programs of the KU Medical Center must be comprehensive and maintain the high scholarship and academic excellence on which the reputation of the University is based. Our mission is to create an environment for:

The University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC)
serves more than 14,200 undergraduate,
graduate and professional students on its
Volker and Hospital Hill campuses. These
students – from 50 states and 62 countries
– choose educational opportunities from the
Schools of Dentistry, Medicine, Pharmacy,
Nursing, Biological Sciences, Education,
Computing and Engineering, Law and Graduate
Studies; the College of Arts and Sciences; the
Conservatory of Music and Dance; and the Henry
W. Bloch School of Business and Public
Administration. The institution’s three critical
mission areas are health sciences, performing
arts and urban issues.