Arkansas Children’s Hospital has hired Heather Cherry, DNP, MHA, RN, NE-BC, to lead nursing operations as senior vice president and chief nursing officer.
Cherry, who brings more than two decades of nursing leadership experience in children’s hospitals and academic medical center operations to the role, most recently served as assistant vice president of Nursing at Texas Children’s Hospital.
The Movement Disorders Clinic at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) will hold a free cooking workshop for patients with Parkinson’s disease and their caregivers on May 19.
The workshop, this time featuring a Mother’s Day theme including tea sandwiches, will be from 10 a.m.-12 noon in the Culinary Medicine Kitchen on the ground floor of the UAMS Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging.
Five Sherwood Urgent Care Centers are now a part of Baptist Health Urgent Care. The urgent care centers in Maumelle, Russellville, Hot Springs, and the two centers in Conway made the transition on May 1.
Both brands are part of the Urgent Team Family of Urgent Care & Walk-in Centers. Baptist Health Urgent Care was formed in 2015 to expand and operate urgent care centers, furthering Baptist Health’s reach to communities with quality healthcare.
Arkansas Urology has announced the opening of the Arkansas Urology Diagnostic & Treatment Center at its Little Rock clinic. Equipped with a Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography (PET/CT) scanner and an advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanner, the center will allow Arkansas Urology to provide more efficient care to its patients.
Arkansas Children’s Hospital (ACH) and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) celebrated the investiture of four physicians in a ceremony at CALS Ron Robinson Theater on April 26.
