The Jacksonville Health Unit, the City of Jacksonville, Pulaski County Community Services, and the Arkansas Department of Health recently hosted the Grand Reopening of the Jacksonville Health Unit, located at 3000 N. First Street.
The ribbon cutting ceremony included speeches from Mayor Gary Fletcher, ADH Center Director for Local Public Health Don Adams, and Pulaski County Judge Barry Hyde. A tour of the new facilities followed the ceremony.
Arkansas Children’s leaders recently shared a vision to significantly improve overall child health in the state as part of the Arkansas Children’s Foundation’s annual Children’s Forum. The forum highlighted the work of Arkansas Children’s partners, including Walmart, and the work of Legal Aid of Arkansas in the Arkansas Children’s Medical-Legal Partnership and the Arkansas Children’s Hospital Nursery Alliance. Both programs demonstrate a new approach to healthcare that focuses on community partnerships galvanized around multiple social determinants of health.
Science Café Little Rock, co-sponsored by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), will hold its next public forum, The Science of Shock, on Oct. 23. Panelists will discuss the various types of shock that can result from physical injury, heart attack, allergic reaction, severe infection and more.
Science Café will be from 7-9 p.m. at Hibernia Irish Tavern, 9700 N. Rodney Parham Road.
The Arkansas Department of Health, Healthy Active Arkansas and the Arkansas State Fair have joined together to create Nursing Nooks at the 2018 Arkansas State Fair.
There will be a Nursing Nook near the main food court and a location at the Kiddie Land section of the park to provide a safe, quiet environment for mothers to breastfeed their babies.
David Bumpass, MD, an orthopaedic surgeon at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), was named one of the nation’s outstanding young spine care providers by the North American Spine Society’s SpineLine magazine in its inaugural “20 Under 40” list honoring spine professionals under the age of 40.
