The National Institute of General Medical Sciences within the National Institutes of Health awarded an additional $5.7 million, five-year grant to fund the third and final phase of a University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences program that supports infectious disease research.
This final phase of the Centers for Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) grant is for the 11th through 15th years of the program, which since 2012 has now received more than $26 million in federal funding.
CHI St. Vincent Hot Springs will become the first hospital in Southwest Arkansas to offer Aquablation therapy. The new minimally invasive, robotic-assisted procedure is for the treatment of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) due to benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), commonly referred to as an enlarged prostate.
More than 40 Children’s Miracle Network Hospital (CMNH) partners from across the region celebrated Miracle Day with Arkansas Children’s on Wednesday. Together, the CMNH partners raised $4,667,695.82 during 2021 for Arkansas Children’s Hospital and Arkansas Children’s Northwest.
CHI St. Vincent has appointed Angie Longing, MHSM, BSN, RN, NE-BC, as the nonprofit health system’s new chief nurse executive. Longing has served CHI St. Vincent ministry since 1994, beginning her career as a labor and delivery nurse at CHI St. Vincent Morrilton. She most recently served as chief nursing officer and vice president of patient care services through a partnership with Conway Regional Health System. She will now provide leadership and coordination of excellence in nursing practice across the CHI St. Vincent system.
EZ Spanish Media, parent company of KOLL – La Zeta 106.3 FM radio station in Little Rock and KSEC – La Zeta 95.7 in Springdale recently raised $167,888 for Arkansas Children’s.
KSEC – La Zeta 95.7 hosted the 12th annual Creadores de Milagros (Miracle Makers) Radiothon on April 29-May 1 in Springdale. KOLL – La Zeta 106.3, their sister station in Little Rock, hosted the ninth annual radiothon the same weekend. Both radiothons are designed for bilingual Hispanic listeners.
