HJLR Mar/Apr 2019

40 MAR / APR 2019  I  Healthcare Journal of little rock   Healthcare Briefs UAMSWins Grant to Create Healthy Living App for Arkansas Students Researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) have been awarded a $10,000 grant to create an app that promotes total wellness and healthy living habits in Arkan- sas students. The grant comes from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Ser- vices, after UAMS was selected one of 10 win- ners nationally in the Using Technology to Pre- vent Childhood Obesity in Low-Income Families and Communities Challenge. “This award gives us the ability to enhance what we’re already doing to teach students about liv- ing a healthy lifestyle at an early age and com- bat some problems down the road,” said Alan Faulkner, program manager for the UAMS Cen- ters for Distance Health. The app will serve as a portal to HealthyNOW, a web-based effort to deliver exercise videos and nutritional counseling to students. Additionally, researchers want to include games and rewards to make the app more fun to use. They also want it to give students a direct link to fitness and nutri- tion experts through the UAMS Dietetics program and its HealthyNOW partner, the University of Central Arkansas’ Exercise Science program. “This app will provide an additional platform for students to be able to use what we’re already doing in four school districts, with the intention of eventually being broadened to any student in Arkansas who wants to participate in the chal- lenges giving them easy access regardless of where they live,” said Tina Pilgreen, education outreach coordinator. HealthyNOW is part of the School Telemedicine in Arkansas (STAR) program, which began in 2016 with a $1.2 million grant from the HRSA. It was launched to combat health disparities in four rural Arkansas school districts—Magazine, Lamar, Jas- per, and Malvern. The first year of the STAR grant focused on behavioral health and was designed to provide on-the-spot care for students in need of annual assessments and medication manage- ment using real-time video conferencing. In the current school year, STAR launched a teleden- tistry program in the four school districts. Researchers at Arkansas Children’s Nutrition Center Find Correlation between C-Sections, Baby Brain Development Researchers at Arkansas Children’s Nutrition Center (ACNC) recently published a study that reveals cesarean delivery (C-section) may have a significant impact on infant brain development. The manuscript was published in American Jour- nal of Neuroradiology, produced by the Ameri- can Society of Neuroradiology. The global C-section rate has been increasing Baptist Health Urgent Care Opens in Little Rock Baptist Health opened its sixth urgent care center in Little Rock, located at 6805 Cantrell Road by Stein Mart.  The urgent care center treats pain and med- ical conditions that are non-life threatening. With no appointment needed, patients are seen on a walk-in basis.  Baptist Health, in a joint venture with Urgent Team, currently has urgent care centers in North Little Rock, Jacksonville, Cabot, Bryant, and Benton. Baptist Health’s continuing expan- sion into urgent care provides patients access to care, as well as supports Baptist Health phy- sicians who want to provide an after-hours and weekend option for their patients.  The Little Rock Regional Chamber and Bap- tist Health Urgent Care hosted ribbon cutting and open house where the community was invited to meet the healthcare team and tour the new center.