Mississippi Code
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-13-10 (2026)
Definitions
✓ current as of July 2026
For purposes of Sections 41-13-10 through 41-13-47, the following words shall have the meanings ascribed herein, unless the context otherwise requires:
- (a) "Administrator" shall mean the chief administrative official and executive officer of a community hospital selected by the board of trustees of such community hospital.
- (b) "Board of trustees" shall mean the board appointed pursuant to Section 41-13-29, to operate a community hospital.
- (c) "Community hospital" shall mean any hospital, nursing home and/or related health facilities or programs, including, without limitation, ambulatory surgical facilities, intermediate care facilities, after-hours clinics, home health agencies and rehabilitation facilities, established and acquired by boards of trustees or by one or more owners which is governed, operated and maintained by a board of trustees.
- (d) "Owner" shall mean any board of supervisors of any county having an ownership interest in any community hospital or leased facility on behalf of the county or on behalf of any supervisors district, judicial district or election district of the county and shall also mean any governing council or board of any municipality having an ownership interest in any community hospital or leased facility.
- (e) "Leased facility" shall mean a hospital, nursing home or related health facilities which an owner has leased to an individual, partnership, corporation, other owner or board of trustees for a term not in excess of fifty (50) years, conditioned upon the facility continuing to operate on a nonprofit basis. A leased facility shall not be deemed or considered to be a community hospital except for purposes of Sections 41-13-19 through 41-13-25, and shall not be subject to the statutory requirements placed on community hospitals except to the extent as may be specifically required by the terms of the applicable lease agreement. However, in situations where another community hospital, acting through its board of trustees, is the lessee of a leased facility, the leased facility shall remain subject to this chapter and other laws applicable to community hospitals, except that the owners of the lessee shall have sole authority to appoint the board of trustees for the leased facility, which shall be the same board of trustees as appointed under Section 41-13-29 for the lessee community hospital.
- (f) "Service area" means that area in which a community hospital may provide services and perform the activities in Section 41-13-35(5), as determined by a board of trustees by its patient origin studies, and may include areas outside of the State of Mississippi.
Laws, 1985, ch. 511, § 2; Laws, 2002, ch. 441, § 1, eff. 7/1/2002.
Amended by Laws, 2019, ch. 442, SB 2892,§ 1, eff. 7/1/2019.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 24
cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1986–2022 · leading case: Wayne Gen. Hosp. v. Hayes, 868 So. 2d 997 (Miss. 2004).
Wayne Gen. Hosp. v. Hayes, 868 So. 2d 997 (Miss. 2004). “The defendants argue that under Miss.Code Ann. § 41-13-10, WGH is a `community hospital' as defined in the MTCA.”
Jones v. Singing River Health Servs. Found., 865 F.3d 285 (5th Cir. 2017). “[ Miss. Code Ann. § 41-13-10 (c).] It consists of two hospitals .”
In Re Greene Cnty. Hosp., 59 B.R. 388 (S.D. Miss. 1986). “Miss. Code Ann. 41-13-10 et seq. (Supp.1985).”
Forrest Gen. Hosp., J. Keith Thompson, Hattiesburg Clinic, Grif A. Leek & S. Miss. Emergency Physicians, P.A. v. Steven Dale Upton Dr. Grif A. Leek, S. Miss. Emergency Physicians, P.A., 240 So. 3d 410 (Miss. 2018). “See Miss. Code Ann. §§ 41-13-10 (c) (Rev. 2013), 11-46-1(i).”
James P. Martin v. Mem'l Hosp. at Gulfport, Wray Anderson, Mitchell Salloum, Edward Reid, & Myrtis Franke, 86 F.3d 1391 (5th Cir. 1996). “The Memorial Hospital at Gulfport is a community hospital existing under Miss.Code Ann. § 41-13-10 et seq., and is jointly owned by the City of Gulfport and the Gulfport-West Harrison County Hospital District, a subdivision of the State of Mississippi.”
Sw Miss. Reg. Med. Ctr. v. Lawrence, 684 So. 2d 1257 (Miss. 1996). “The issue here is whether Southwest, as a community hospital defined in Miss. Code Ann. § 41-13-10 (c) (1993), can be liable for punitive damage under the principles of sovereign immunity.”
Par. v. Frazier, 195 F.3d 761 (5th Cir. 1999). “Here, the underlying debt was owed to Memorial, a "community hospital" existing under Miss. Code Ann. 41-13-10 et seq. As such, Memorial is a subdivision of the State of Mississippi within the meaning of Miss.”
Enroth v. Mem'l Hosp. at Gulfport, 566 So. 2d 202 (Miss. 1990). “The current statutes on community hospitals are codified as Miss. Code Ann. §§ 41-13-10 et seq. (1972 and supplements).”
Madra K. Lyas v. Forrest Gen. Hosp., 177 So. 3d 412 (Miss. 2015). “Miss.Code Ann. § 41-13-10(c) (Rev.2013).”
Par. v. Frazier, 195 F.3d 761 (5th Cir. 1999). “Here, the underlying debt was owed to Memorial, a “community hospital” existing under Miss.Code Ann. § 41-13-10 et seq. As such, Memorial is a subdivision of the State of Mississippi within the meaning of Miss.”
Magee v. Covington Cnty. Sch. Dist., 96 So. 3d 742 (Miss. Ct. App. 2012). “In the trial court's order granting the motion for a JNOV, the trial court further stated: As to the [djefendant, Covington County Hospital, this [cjourt previously ruled that Covington County Hospital, as a community hospital as defined in Miss.Code Ann. § 41-13-10, is subject…”
Sw. Mississippi Reg'l Med. Ctr. v. Lawrence, 684 So. 2d 1257 (Miss. 1996). “The issue here is whether Southwest, as a community hospital defined in Miss.Code Ann. § 41-13-10(e) (1993), can be liable for punitive damage under the principles of sovereign immunity.”
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-13-10(c): 3 cases
Wayne Gen. Hosp. v. Hayes, 868 So. 2d 997 (Miss. 2004). “The defendants argue that under Miss.Code Ann. § 41-13-10, WGH is a `community hospital' as defined in the MTCA.”
Madra K. Lyas v. Forrest Gen. Hosp., 177 So. 3d 412 (Miss. 2015). “Miss.Code Ann. § 41-13-10(c) (Rev.2013).”
Gilchrist v. Veach, 807 So. 2d 485 (Miss. Ct. App. 2002).
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-13-10(d): 1 case
In Re Greene Cnty. Hosp., 59 B.R. 388 (S.D. Miss. 1986). “Miss. Code Ann. 41-13-10 et seq. (Supp.1985).”
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-13-10(e): 1 case
Sw. Mississippi Reg'l Med. Ctr. v. Lawrence, 684 So. 2d 1257 (Miss. 1996). “The issue here is whether Southwest, as a community hospital defined in Miss.Code Ann. § 41-13-10(e) (1993), can be liable for punitive damage under the principles of sovereign immunity.”
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