Baptist Health and Caregility announced an expanded partnership aimed at enhancing patient care across the Arkansas-based healthcare organization.
Baptist Health will enhance its bedside care teams by increasing its usage of Caregility intelligent telehealth devices to more than 700 bedsides system-wide, doubling the footprint of the healthcare organization’s inpatient telehealth services. The initiative adds virtual clinical resources to support in-person bedside care and help improve patient outcomes.
CARTI recently welcomed J. Scott Cordova, MD, PhD, to its radiation oncology team. Now seeing patients at the CARTI Cancer Center in Little Rock, Cordova specializes in high dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy, a minimally invasive method of radiation treatment that places radioactive sources close to or within tumors.
The Arkansas Center for Food Allergy Research (ArCOFAR) at Arkansas Children’s Research Institute (ACRI) will continue pursuing groundbreaking discoveries with a $2.3 million award from the National Institutes of Health.