Merit Health Biloxi

What Merit Health Biloxi does

Merit Health Biloxi was an acute care hospital located in Biloxi, Mississippi, that was acquired by Memorial Health System in January 2025 and now operates as Memorial Hospital Biloxi within the Memorial network. The facility delivers a broad mix of clinical services including audiology, weight loss, behavioral health, a burn center, cancer care, neurology, urology, and emergency services, serving the Mississippi Gulf Coast community.

The broader Memorial Health System is an independent, nonprofit healthcare organization headquartered in Gulfport, Mississippi, and is described as the Mississippi Gulf Coast's largest health system. Its operating platform spans multiple hospitals, physician clinics, walk-in care locations, and telehealth services under the MemorialConnectNow and myMemorialConnection brands, with service lines spanning virtual care, walk-in care, primary care, oncology, cardiology, neurosciences, orthopedics, and emergency care. Technology infrastructure is limited to standard healthcare IT — a patient portal, an Oracle Cloud HCM careers portal, and the PersonaPay billing platform — with no disclosed proprietary technology, AI capabilities, or app products.

Revenue mechanics are those of a nonprofit regional health system: patient service revenue across inpatient, outpatient, and ancillary care lines, supplemented by walk-in and telehealth volume, billed through insurance, Medicare/Medicaid, and self-pay channels and processed via PersonaPay. There is no disclosed pricing model, no subscription or SaaS revenue, no parent company, no PE backing, and no public listing; the entity is privately held and operationally integrated post-acquisition.

Name

Merit Health Biloxi

Legal name

Memorial Health System

Website

https://merithealthbiloxi.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Acquired

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Merit Health Biloxi is an acute care hospital in Biloxi, Mississippi, acquired by Memorial Health System in January 2025 and now operating as Memorial Hospital Biloxi, serving the Mississippi Gulf Coast community with a broad range of inpatient and outpatient services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

NAICS

Specialty (except Psychiatric and Substance Abuse) Hospitals (622310), Ambulatory Health Care Services (621)

SIC

Services-Hospitals (8060), Services-General Medical & Surgical Hospitals, Nec (8062)

akta.pro primary industry

International/Medical Tourism Hospital Systems (HLAFAAAN)

akta.pro secondary industry

Behavioral Health Care Management & Case Management (HLAEAHAE)

Keywords

• Acute care hospital
• Emergency medical services
• Oncology care
• Telehealth services
• Cardiology services

Headquarters

HQ city

Mableton

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Core offering

Merit Health Biloxi operates as an acute care hospital providing a broad range of clinical services including emergency care, cancer care, cardiology, neurology, urology, neurosurgery, orthopedics, behavioral health, audiology, weight loss, and a burn center. Following its January 2025 acquisition by Memorial Health System, the facility operates as Memorial Hospital Biloxi within the Mississippi Gulf Coast's largest health system.

Product overview

Memorial Health System operates as a healthcare platform offering multiple service lines and care facilities. Following the January 2025 acquisition of Merit Health Biloxi, the system expanded to include Memorial Hospital Biloxi as an acquired brand alongside its existing network of hospitals, urgent care centers, physician clinics, and telehealth services. The product portfolio includes Virtual Care (Telehealth), Walk-In Clinical Care, Primary Care, Cancer Care/Oncology, Cardiology/Heart Health, Neurosciences, Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, and Emergency Care services, all delivered through multiple facility locations across the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Community Health Systems: Operates a large network of non-urban and community acute care hospitals, highly comparable to Memorial Hospital Biloxi in market type, scale, and service-line breadth.
• HCA Healthcare: The largest for-profit hospital operator in the U.S., offering broadly comparable acute care and specialty services at scale and setting competitive benchmarks for staffing, throughput, and capital deployment.
• Tenet Healthcare: A national multi-hospital operator with a portfolio of community acute care hospitals and ambulatory services, broadly comparable in service mix and patient profile to Memorial Hospital Biloxi.
• Ochsner Health: The largest nonprofit health system in Louisiana with expanding presence into the Mississippi Gulf Coast, operating an analogous mix of acute care hospitals, specialty institutes, and digital health services.

Direct peers

• Baptist Memorial Health Care: A Memphis-based nonprofit system with multiple hospitals and clinics across Mississippi, offering comparable multi-specialty acute care services and competing for the same regional referral pool.
• Singing River Health System: A multi-hospital nonprofit health system also serving the Mississippi Gulf Coast, directly overlapping with Merit Health Biloxi's catchment area and competing for the same patient base across primary, specialty, and emergency care.
• Anderson Regional Health System: A Meridian, Mississippi-based nonprofit acute care system offering comparable multi-specialty services to residents of eastern Mississippi, overlapping with Biloxi's referral catchment.
• Forrest Health: A Hattiesburg, Mississippi-based regional health system operating acute care hospitals and specialty services across south-central Mississippi, comparable in scale and community-hospital positioning.
• University of Mississippi Medical Center: Mississippi's only academic medical center in Jackson, operating specialty and tertiary services that draw complex cases away from Gulf Coast community hospitals like Merit Health Biloxi.

Regional players

• Ascension Providence: A Mobile, Alabama-based acute care hospital within Ascension Health that draws patients from the eastern Mississippi Gulf Coast and competes with Memorial Hospital Biloxi for cross-border referrals.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/memorialgulf
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCkSmfzDShAler0-kv0F-RXw
• Facebookfacebook.com/MeritHealth
• Instagraminstagram.com/wearememorial
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/merit-health

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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