Arkansas has been awarded a $17 million grant, the Transforming Maternal Health (TMaH) Model, from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Applying for the TMaH grant was among the recommendations made by the Strategic Committee for Maternal Health established by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ executive order last year, and the funds will support key efforts to improve the health of pregnant women, new mothers, and babies, the Arkansas Department of Human Services (DHS) announced.
January 13, 2025
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Institute for Community Health Innovation will train 80 doulas over the next year through a comprehensive program administered by the institute and other partners, including Ujima Maternity Network and Birthing Beyond.
The program is available to individuals throughout Arkansas through a scholarship that covers the full cost of the training, which is spread across six months.
January 13, 2025
The Arkansas Council on Behavioral Health will host a Mental Health Day at the Capitol from 9 a.m.-12 noon in the rotunda of Arkansas’s state capitol on Jan. 29. The purpose of this day is to highlight successes and raise awareness of the need for and challenge in comprehensive behavioral health services to meet the population health needs in Arkansas.
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is scheduled to speak at the event, which will include presentations from various behavioral health service providers who work daily to meet the needs of Arkansans.
January 6, 2025
John R. Montgomery, MD, and Tsukasa Nakamura, MD, PhD, have joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as liver, kidney, and pancreas transplant surgeons.
Both will also serve as assistant professors in the College of Medicine Department of Surgery.
January 6, 2025
Northwest Health welcomed Tiffany Weathers, MD, to its medical staff. Weathers specializes in obstetrics and gynecology and is accepting new patients at Northwest OB/GYN – Willow Creek, located at 5501 Willow Creek Drive, Suite 202, in Springdale.
Weathers has been in practice for more than 15 years.
She received a medical education at Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara School of Medicine in Guadalajara, Mexico. She then completed an obstetrics and gynecology residency at The State University of New York in Albany, New York. She is bilingual in English and Spanish.
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