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UAMS Invests Jorge Saucedo, MD, MBA, in Nolan Family Distinguished Chair in Internal Medicine
Baptist Health Nurses Recognized Among Arkansas’ ‘40 Nurse Leaders Under 40’
UAMS Holds Topping Out Ceremony for Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine Hospital in Springdale
UAMS, University of Arkansas-Fort Smith Forge Agreement to Expand Healthcare Education Pathways
State Medical Society Elects Officers
UAMS Receives $1M to Create Endowed Funds in Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute
Sisira Yadala, MD, Honored with AMS Best Faculty Award
Dorothy Snider Foundation Awards $110K Grant to UAMS College of Medicine for Scholarships
December 12, 2022
Baptist Health Receives Surescripts Whit...

Baptist Health has received the 2022 Surescripts White Coat Award™ for Structured & Codified Sig Champion, the healthcare industry's premier recognition for leaders in e-prescription accuracy. The healthcare system is among the 11 winners from across the Surescripts Network Alliance® who met the highest standards for prescription accuracy and patient safety.

This important standardization helps reduce the opportunity for errors while prescribing and dispensing medications to patients.

The 2022 Surescripts White Coat Award recognized winners in three categories: 

December 12, 2022
AMHC Accepting Minority Health Scholarsh...

The Arkansas Minority Health Commission (AMHC) is accepting applications for its Minority Health Workforce Diversity scholarship from now until Dec. 31.

Minority-raced, full or part-time college students who plan to pursue a career in the field of health are encouraged to apply. Full-time scholarship recipients will be awarded $1,000 per academic year and part-time recipients, $500 per academic year.

December 12, 2022
UAMS Researchers Design App to Prevent O...

A trio of researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) have designed a smart phone application to decrease opioid cravings and optimize medication-assisted treatment among individuals with opioid use disorder.

December 12, 2022
Saline Health System Offering Robotic-As...

Saline Health System recently upgraded its robotic surgery assistant so that it could be used for hip surgeries. Its first robotic-assisted hip surgery was performed Nov. 21, 2022.

December 5, 2022
CHI St. Vincent Hot Springs Receives $4-...

CHI St. Vincent Hot Springs will work to improve access to vital, high quality prenatal care for pregnant women across 11 Southwest Arkansas counties thanks to a $4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services over the next four years. The grant will empower CHI St. Vincent Hot Springs to build upon the current Healthy Mom, Thriving Baby Project by establishing AR MOMS, a network of committed, rural healthcare partners to coordinate a continuum of pregnancy services from pre-conception through postpartum care.