CHI St. Vincent physician Joseph Beck, MD, has been honored with the Pulaski County Medical Society’s 2020 President’s Award for a lifetime of outstanding contributions to medicine. Beck, a medical oncologist with the CHI St. Vincent Oncology Clinic in Little Rock, has served as a physician on the CHI St. Vincent Infirmary’s medical staff for 33 years.
October 19, 2020
October 19, 2020
Arkansas Children’s has named Frederick (Rick) E. Barr, MD, MBA, to the position of executive vice president and chief clinical and academic officer for the state’s only pediatric health system.
He joins the Arkansas Children’s leadership team in a new executive role created to elevate physician leadership and bridge operational, clinical, and academic pursuits across the system and state.
October 19, 2020
CHI St. Vincent Hot Springs has received national Magnet designation by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) for its continued commitment to nursing excellence and compassionate patient care. Magnet designation is the highest honor bestowed upon an organization for professional nursing practice and recognizes excellence in nursing leadership, clinical practice, innovations, and positive outcomes. CHI St. Vincent Hot Springs is the fourth hospital in Arkansas to receive Magnet designation and one of only 530 hospitals nationwide to receive that recognition. CHI St.
October 19, 2020
People who had recently been in the hospital were 24 times less likely to develop a COVID-19 infection than the general population, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) researchers found in a study that used data from 45 hospitals.
The study focused on people who had been in the hospital for conditions not related to COVID-19. Among the 101,533 patients, only 44 (0.043%) tested positive for COVID-19 within 14 days of discharge from the hospital. By comparison, the percentage of positive COVID-19 patients among the total U.S. population is 1.035%.
October 12, 2020
Northwest Medical Center - Springdale’s Emergency Department (ED) has achieved the gold standard — Level I accreditation from the American College of Emergency Physicians’ (ACEP) Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation (GEDA) program. It is the first in Arkansas to achieve this milestone, as well as 12th in the nation to earn Level I gold status.
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