by - April 11, 2018 2:23 pm
UAMS Medical Center in Little Rock and Angel Eye Care Systems worked together to install 40 new camera systems in the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), making it the…
by - April 10, 2018 8:47 pm
Uncertainty about the future of Golden Living jobs in Fort Smith became somewhat less clear Tuesday. Real estate firm CBRE said it is has been hired to sell or lease…
by - April 10, 2018 4:29 pm
U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams will speak Thursday (April 12) at the Arkansas Department of Health (ADH) and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Little Rock. He…
by - April 10, 2018 4:16 pm
Former Arkansas Attorney General and Jonesboro State Representative Dustin McDaniel has a lifetime of connections to Northeast Arkansas. Now, in private law practice with McDaniel, Richardson, and Calhoun, PLLC, he’s…
by - April 4, 2018 8:16 pm
In separate actions, Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge and Scott Ellington, prosecuting attorney for the 2nd Judicial District of Arkansas, are taking drug makers to court in a fight against…
by - April 3, 2018 6:27 pm
Mercy’s $247 million ongoing expansion in Northwest Arkansas includes a 63,000-square-foot clinic and emergency and outpatient surgery center under construction in northwest Springdale. Kerry Harper, executive director of support services…
by - April 2, 2018 9:06 pm
Oliver Chen, an analyst with Cowen & Co., places the odds of an acquisition of Humana by Walmart as high as 40%. He said odds are as high as 80%…
by - March 29, 2018 10:46 pm
Walmart Inc. told Talk Business & Politics the company does not “comment on rumors and speculation,” but rumors of a possible acquisition of insurance provider Humana by the world’s largest…
by - March 29, 2018 7:42 pm
The state of Arkansas is suing three opioid manufacturers saying they deceived doctors and patients and caused the state to pay for unnecessary Medicaid claims, Attorney General Leslie Rutledge announced…
by - March 29, 2018 12:06 pm
Dallas-based healthcare provider Everest Rehabilitation Hospitals officially announced Thursday (March 29) its intention to build a $23 million physical rehabilitation hospital in Rogers. The Northwest Arkansas Business Journal first reported…
by - March 27, 2018 4:50 pm
Jefferson Regional Medical Center (JRMC) announced Tuesday (March 27) that it is joining the Arkansas Children’s Hospital (ACH) Nursery Alliance in a move that will directly coordinate care between neonatologists…
by - March 27, 2018 4:39 pm
Arkansas Children’s Northwest opened its doors four weeks ago and administrators have spent the past two months working with regulators on pending accreditation required for Medicaid and Medicare payments. Trisha…
by - March 26, 2018 2:41 pm
An attorney representing Arkansas’ cities and counties in a lawsuit against opioid manufacturers says the plaintiffs probably would need to recover “somewhere in the billions” to help pay for the…
by - March 26, 2018 12:43 pm
Washington Regional Medical Center announced a partnership with Streamline Health Solutions to help manage its operations via a new cloud-based automated pre-bill coding analysis technology system dubbed Streamline Health eValuator….
by - March 26, 2018 12:40 pm
Mercy will open a 14,000-square-foot clinic on Wednesday (March 28) after a blessing 10 a.m. Tuesday (March 27) at 4100 S.W. I St. in Bentonville. The $7.7 million Mercy Clinic…
by - March 23, 2018 7:31 pm
A March 21 ruling by Pulaski County Circuit Court Judge Wendell Griffen that essentially halted the implementation of medical marijuana use in Arkansas has been appealed to the Arkansas Supreme…
by - March 22, 2018 1:48 pm
Northwest Arkansas continues to have a booming healthcare market. The newest example, potentially, is a 41,000-square-foot rehabilitation hospital in Rogers. According to large-scale development plans submitted to the city for…
by - March 21, 2018 8:04 pm
Advocates for Arkansas’ emerging medical marijuana industry are in a quandary over what it will now take to get the voter-approved amendment off the ground following a Pulaski County Circuit…
by - March 21, 2018 1:45 pm
Pulaski County Circuit Court Judge Wendell Griffen on Wednesday (March 21) declared the state Medical Marijuana Commission’s process of scoring and awarding Arkansas’ first highly-prized licenses to five pot cultivators…
by - March 15, 2018 5:51 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson signed legislation authorizing the Insurance Department to license and regulate pharmacy benefit managers Thursday, comparing the action to President Theodore Roosevelt’s efforts to prevent monopolies and trusts…
