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Yesterday’s Presidential Executive Order: Delivering Most-Favored-Nation Drug Pricing to American Patients
MMR Vaccine Clinic to be Held in Conway Today
Arkansas Children's Hospital Recognized as Gold Level Safe Sleep Hospital
UAMS Milk Bank Celebrates Milk Donors
Congressional Budget Agency Projects Sweeping Medicaid Cutbacks in States Under GOP Plans
UAMS Invests Nikki Edge, PhD, in Seilhan Endowed Chair for Child and Family Resilience
Emily Jones, APRN, Now Seeing Patients at Baptist Health Sleep Clinic-Little Rock
Arkansas Health Department Reports Evidence of Measles
June 25, 2023
UAMS Oral Health Clinic Celebrates Anniv...

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) celebrated the 10th anniversary of the opening of its Delta Dental of Arkansas Foundation Oral Health Clinic with a ceremony to mark its expansion into a newly remodeled space.

The renovated area adds 3,490 square feet to the clinic’s existing footprint. With the expansion, the 12,800 square-foot clinic now has four new dental hygiene operatories for a total of 15, supporting three full-time hygienists and enhancing patient appointment availability.

June 25, 2023
Arkansas Children’s Named to U.S. News...

Arkansas Children’s continues its annual streak on U.S. News & World Report’s Best Children’s Hospitals list, celebrating national rankings for seven of its service lines for the second year in a row.

The seven ranking specialty services are among the best in the nation, according to the list, published online. 

The following programs are ranked on the 2023/2024 Best Children’s Hospitals list: 

-Cancer (40, highest-ever ranking)

-Cardiology & Heart Surgery (45)

-Diabetes & Endocrinology (44)

-Nephrology (34)

-Orthopedics (45)

June 25, 2023
 UAMS Opens 12th Street Community Café

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is celebrating its newly opened 12th Street Community Café at 3999 W. 12th St., as part of the grand opening of the city’s 12th Street Center.

Operated by employees of the UAMS Department of Nutrition Services, the café is located inside the center, which has been home to a Little Rock Police Department station since 2014.

June 25, 2023
UAMS Taking Group Prenatal Care on the R...

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) Office of Community Health & Research, recently launched a mobile CenteringPregnancy® program, a group prenatal program that is headed to medically underserved areas across Arkansas.

June 25, 2023
Mercy Hospitals Booneville, Waldron Name...

Two Mercy critical access hospitals in Arkansas recently were named “best practice” hospitals for quality by the Chartis Center for Rural Health. 

Mercy hospitals in Booneville and Waldron, Arkansas, were ranked in the Top 20 for quality, joining just 18 other hospitals across the country in receiving the designation. Mercy hospitals in Kingfisher, Tishomingo, and Logan County, Okla., also received the honor.