The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has welcomed Namrata Dogra, MD, and Benjamin Frazier, MD, as new physicians at the Thomas and Lyon Longevity Clinic in the UAMS Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging.
Both of the fellowship-trained physicians also serve as assistant professors in the UAMS College of Medicine’s Department of Geriatrics.
Despite more than a year of efforts by CHI St. Vincent to reach a sustainable contract renewal, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arkansas “has been unwilling to agree to a fair contract.” As a result, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arkansas no longer considers CHI St. Vincent as part of its network.
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences received nearly $12 million in funding under the THRIVE and PACT initiatives of the Arkansas Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP).
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced the awards with four UAMS programs receiving funding — Virtu-RURAL (Remote Upgrades to Rural Arkansas Locations), Stroke Pathways to Advance Rural Knowledge (SPARK), Specialty Telehealth Access for Rural Communities in Arkansas (STAR), and Arkansas Pregnancy Care Connect. Altogether, UAMS was awarded $11,991,204 in funding.
Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced that New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State University (NYITCOM at A-State) has received a $1.5 million grant through the PACT phase of the state’s Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP).
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) received a $1 million gift from Brenda Gullett and Robert R. Gullett Jr., MD, associate professor and orthopaedic surgeon at the UAMS Northwest Regional Campus, to benefit the UAMS Health Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine Hospital in Springdale.
Because of the Gulletts’ generosity, the UAMS Health Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine Hospital’s sports medicine clinic will be named the Dr. Bob Gullett Clinic for Sports Medicine.
