by - November 5, 2018 4:37 pm
Construction on the new Baptist Memorial Hospital-Crittenden County is virtually complete, employees have been hired, and the hospital is slated to open Dec. 3, BMHCC President and CEO Brian Welton…
by - November 1, 2018 5:07 pm
Shane Speights, D.O., dean, at the NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State (NYITCOM at A-State), announced Thursday (Nov. 1) the formation of a new fellowship program in coordination…
by - November 1, 2018 1:49 pm
Highlands Oncology Group COO Kathey Rhoads, who was the company’s initial employee when it originated in 1996 with medical oncologists Thaddeus Beck, Daniel Bradford and Malcolm Hayward, said she is…
by - November 1, 2018 11:40 am
Little Rock-based Baptist Health has closed on the acquisition of Sparks Health System operations in Fort Smith, Van Buren and clinics in western Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma. The move to…
by - October 30, 2018 8:44 pm
Open enrollment in Arkansas’ state-based health insurance exchange begins November 1. Created through the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, the Arkansas Health Insurance Marketplace enables individuals without access to employer…
by - October 29, 2018 4:49 pm
For more than 150 years the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., has been a destination for healthcare. While Northwest Arkansas continues to work toward being a destination for healthcare excellence…
by - October 28, 2018 10:28 am
Arkansas Children’s CEO Marcy Doderer said one of the state’s largest health care systems will raise its minimum wage for entry level jobs to $14 per hour in the next…
by - October 24, 2018 4:26 pm
The Fort Smith-based Arkansas Colleges of Health Education (ACHE) has formed the ACHE Advancement Advisory Council to help the ACHE Board of Trustees in their advancement efforts and to “further…
by - October 23, 2018 3:04 pm
Technology continues to turn the healthcare sector on its head with new innovations devices used in the privacy of one’s home can accurately confirm disease. New techniques in genetic analysis…
by - October 22, 2018 11:33 am
While the sale of Sparks Health System to Little Rock-based Baptist Health is viewed by many as a positive for the Fort Smith metro, local governments and schools stand to…
by - October 19, 2018 12:19 pm
Northwest Medical Center – Springdale, a hospital of Springdale-based health system Northwest Health, has earned accreditation from the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program as a comprehensive…
by - October 17, 2018 6:52 am
The state Medical Marijuana Commission agreed after long debate on Tuesday (Oct. 16) to schedule a public meeting at the end of this month so those concerned about Arkansas’ delayed…
by - October 16, 2018 3:30 pm
Pearl McElfish has been promoted to vice chancellor of the Northwest Arkansas regional campus of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Fayetteville. McElfish has been serving as…
by - October 15, 2018 12:07 pm
Another 4,109 former beneficiaries of the Arkansas Works program have been removed from the program for failing to comply with its work and community engagement requirement, after 4,353 were removed…
by - October 10, 2018 6:52 am
The Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care (AFMC) has received a grant award totaling $1,902,095 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Health Resources and Services Administration. The…
by - October 8, 2018 4:41 pm
Scott Pace of Little Rock, who formerly served as CEO of the Arkansas Pharmacists Association, received the 2018 John W. Dargavel Medal at the National Community Pharmacists Association convention held…
by - October 6, 2018 10:20 am
A representative for one of five companies awarded licenses to grow for Arkansas’ fledgling medical marijuana industry says the business will be ready to start cultivating and supplying the product…
by - October 6, 2018 10:14 am
When Arkansas voters took the step to legalize medical marijuana in the November 2016 election, the Natural State was hailed as an outlier for being the first state in the…
by - October 2, 2018 4:47 pm
Officials from Mercy Northwest Arkansas and city of Bentonville celebrated the opening of a new primary care health clinic along North Walton Boulevard on Tuesday (Oct. 2). It is the…
by - October 1, 2018 8:51 pm
The Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission on Monday (Oct. 1) scheduled a meeting with a Boston consulting firm in nearly two weeks to score and review the nearly 200 medical cannabis…
