November 28, 2016

Baptist Health announced that Cowherd Family Medical Center in Heber Springs, which has had a long-standing presence in the community, officially became part of the Baptist Health healthcare system on Monday, Nov. 14.

The family practice will continue to serve its patients with the same great standard of care, but also provide greater access to more specialists and the latest technology Baptist Health has to offer.

November 28, 2016

National Park Medical Center will present the 33rd Annual Christmas Scramble Golf Tournament, benefitting the Kamo’s Kids Foundation, on Friday, December 2, at Hot Springs Country Club. Registration, sponsored by Arvest will begin at 8:30 am, and the shotgun start will be at 10:30 am.

November 21, 2016

James E. McDonald, MD, has been named chair of the Department of Radiology in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).

November 21, 2016

In the first time the method has been used in the United States, doctors injected a cold virus into a Hazen woman’s brain tumor in an effort to eradicate it as part of a clinical trial at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).

November 21, 2016

Last week, Arkansas Children’s Hospital (ACH) and Conway Regional Health System (CRHS) announced an affiliation agreement that creates a pediatric nursery alliance between the hospitals. The Arkansas Children’s Nursery Alliance puts into place coordination of care between neonatologists at ACH’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and physicians in Conway Regional’s NICU and newborn nursery to help further improve the quality of newborn care.