November 14, 2016

Today, Conway Regional Health System (CRHS) and Arkansas Children’s Hospital (ACH) will announce the birth of the Arkansas Children’s Nursery Alliance, of which Conway Regional is the initial member. The nursery alliance is the first of its kind for Arkansas’ only pediatric medical center and further broadens the hospital’s statewide network of care.

November 14, 2016

Arkansas Hospice and the Arkansas Hospice Foundation recently elected new officers and members for their 2017 Boards of Directors.

November 14, 2016

Stavros Manolagas, MD, PhD, has been named the 2016 recipient of the Veterans Administration Biomedical Laboratory Research and Development Service’s highest honor, the William S. Middleton Award.

November 7, 2016

Jill M. Mhyre, MD, an authority on obstetric anesthesiology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), was invested Nov. 1 as the inaugural recipient of the Dola S. Thompson, MD, Professorship in Anesthesiology.

Mhyre is the vice chair for research and associate professor in the Department of Anesthesiology in the UAMS College of Medicine and directs the Division of Obstetric Anesthesia.

November 7, 2016

National Park Medical Center recently opened their 67,000 square foot expansion project to the public beginning Friday, October 28, with an open house for the public. Area residents were invited to tour the new facility which features a 25-bed emergency department and the new state of the art stand-alone Heart and Vascular Center of Central Arkansas.