by - April 24, 2018 9:33 pm
Mercy Hospitals in Fort Smith and Northwest Arkansas each received a safety grade of “A” from the Leapfrog Group, an independent hospital watchdog group. Mercy also recently ranked as one…
by - April 24, 2018 5:45 pm
The involvement of Amazon and other tech giants in the health care industry will accelerate the move to consumer-based care, while the omnibus spending package passed by Congress in March…
by - April 24, 2018 12:25 pm
Arkansas has received $57 million in 2018 for its share of the tobacco settlement funds from the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) with tobacco companies, according to the office of…
by - April 20, 2018 7:56 am
Mercy Hospital in Rogers is now using the Watchman device, which is implanted in patients to prevent the formation of blood clots. It is considered an alternative to blood thinning…
by - April 19, 2018 3:11 pm
Highlands Oncology Group is bursting at the seams in its Fayetteville cancer treatment center as the region’s population continues to grow beyond 500,000. Need for additional space has prompted the…
by - April 18, 2018 4:43 pm
The first class at the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine on the Arkansas State University Jonesboro campus is set to begin medical clerkships or rotations this…
by - April 17, 2018 6:02 pm
Northwest Health announced Tuesday (April 17) it has joined the Mayo Clinic Care Network, giving its patients access to speciality consults and second opinions from the more than 3,300 doctors…
by - April 16, 2018 5:20 pm
Research from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville combined with medical products made by a Fort Smith-based company resulted in new products touted as a better way to train clinicians…
by - April 12, 2018 10:38 am
The Heritage Edition of “The Saint John’s Bible” will be on display at Mercy Hospital Northwest Arkansas in Rogers through May 31. Four Catholic health ministries worked together to bring…
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…
