Keesler holds ribbon cutting ceremony for Back Bay Tower
Biloxi city councilman and retired Lt. Gen. Clark Griffith, left, and Myrtis Franke, Gulfport office director for U.S. Senator Thad Cochran (R-MS), join Brig. Gen. (Dr.) Kory Cornum, 81st Medical Group commander, center; Mississippi’s Fourth District Congressman Steven Palazzo, second from right; and Brig. Gen. Brad Spacy, 81st Training Wing commander, as they cut the ribbon marking the official opening of the Keesler Medical Center’s new Back Bay Tower Feb. 1, 2013, at Keesler Air Force Base, Miss. The tower contains state-of-the art medical and surgical inpatient wards, intensive care and recovery/peri-anesthesia care units as well as a new emergency department, physical-occupational therapy-chiropractic clinic, two new operating rooms and two cardiac catheterization labs. The hospital started using the new facility in December. Cornum also used the opportunity to announce the Keesler Hospital has been officially re-designated “Keesler Medical Center.” (U.S. Air Force photo by Steve Pivnick)