by - December 22, 2017 9:51 am
Cam Patterson, the chief operating officer at Weill-Cornell Medical Center, New York Presbyterian Hospital, has been recommended as the next University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences chancellor. University of Arkansas…
by - December 21, 2017 10:02 am
Blue & You Foundation for a Healthier Arkansas gave a $150,000 grant to Mercy Health Foundation to support the internal medicine residency program in 2018. On Thursday (Dec. 21), Mercy…
by - December 19, 2017 4:33 pm
As part of the state’s continuing efforts to cut rising Medicaid costs, the Arkansas Department of Human Services (DHS) announced Tuesday (Dec. 19) it had removed more than 80,000 individuals…
by - December 19, 2017 7:17 am
Arkansas Medicaid awarded more than $3.3 million in performance bonus payments to 15 Arkansas hospitals as part of the annual Inpatient Quality Incentive (IQI) program. Individual hospitals were recognized Dec….
by - December 18, 2017 1:57 pm
Federal court documents made public Monday (Dec. 18) cite an unnamed former Arkansas legislator and a Northwest Arkansas businessman as accomplices in a scheme with a New Jersey political consultant…
by - December 18, 2017 1:13 pm
Sherwood Urgent Care opened a second location at 1065 Skyline Drive in Conway. The location, which is adjacent to Starbucks, opened Monday (Dec. 18.) Its other location on Dave Ward…
by - December 14, 2017 11:26 am
The Arkansas Department of Health, along with other healthcare providers, has adopted new hypertension guidelines, and the new guidelines mean some patients who didn’t think they had high blood pressure…
by - December 12, 2017 6:12 pm
Research funding at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) grew 53% during the last fiscal year, contributing to the Arkansas economy and bringing the potential to grow new…
by - December 12, 2017 5:20 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Tuesday (Dec. 12) publicly thanked the state Tobacco Settlement Commission (ATSC) for its support in paring down more than 500 families on the waiting list for…
by - December 10, 2017 4:53 pm
Babies in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Mercy Hospital in Northwest Arkansas will have an additional lifeline as a result of the 24th annual Mercy Health Foundation’s O’Night…
by - December 8, 2017 1:00 pm
The University of Arkansas System has named two finalists for the chancellor position at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Stephanie Gardner, interim chancellor, provost and senior vice chancellor…
by - December 7, 2017 7:59 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson said he’s still optimistic about getting a federal waiver for Arkansas Works, his version of the Medicaid expansion proposal under the Affordable Health Act. Hutchinson and Arkansas…
by - December 6, 2017 5:40 pm
The University of Arkansas at Fort Smith (UAFS) announced Wednesday (Dec. 6) plans for a 15-month accelerated bachelor of science nursing program, or accelerated BSN, in conjunction with Sparks and…
by - December 6, 2017 1:50 pm
Noelle Danylchuk, a certified genetic counselor at UAMS Northwest Regional Campus, has been named chair for the Department of Genetic Counseling in the College of Health Professions at the University…
by - December 5, 2017 2:56 pm
Allan Martin, a family practitioner with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Northwest, started seeing patients at a new clinic office at Butterfield Trail Village in Fayetteville on Nov….
by - December 5, 2017 11:05 am
Major U.S. tobacco companies have started running ads in the Little Rock Sun and across the nation to comply with a 2006 federal court order after 11 years of appeals…
by - December 5, 2017 7:58 am
The number of people enrolled in Arkansas Works fell 6% to 309,719 in October, from 330,488 in the same month in 2016, according to the Arkansas Department of Human Services….
by - December 4, 2017 8:50 pm
A Little Rock-based financial technology startup with ties to the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Association has announced it is partnering with an unnamed Arkansas bank to offer electronic payments and financial…
by - December 1, 2017 7:16 pm
The Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission (AMMC) on Friday (Dec. 1) unanimously approved an aggressive two-month schedule to score and approve nearly 100 applications for the state’s first pot-growing cultivation facilities…
by - December 1, 2017 2:41 pm
CryoFactor, a health and wellness company in Fayetteville, is making a move into Bentonville through a partnership with Bentonville Family Chiropractic. CryoFactor offers whole-body cryotherapy, where an individual receiving treatment…
