Clark Trapp, MD, has joined the team at Conway Regional Health System. Trapp is now seeing patients at Conway Medical Group in Conway. Additionally, Trapp is practicing alongside Sarah Robertson, MD, Jeremiah Keng, MD, and Darren Freeman, MD, as a core faculty member for the Family Medicine Residency Program.
A National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded collaboration between scientists at Arkansas Children’s Research Institute (ACRI) and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) will help the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Arkansas Department of Health (ADH) understand more about the variants of COVID-19 circulating in the state by increasing capacity for genomic sequencing, tracking and analyses of virus samples.
Mercy co-workers will be required to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, effective Sept. 30.
The new requirement comes as the Delta variant of COVID-19 continues to spread rapidly, resulting in an uptick in hospitalizations at Mercy hospitals in Fort Smith and Rogers. The situation is even more serious in Missouri, where Mercy has hospitals and clinics in Joplin, Springfield, St. Louis, and other locations.
The majority of Mercy patients recently hospitalized with COVID-19 have not been vaccinated.
CHI St. Vincent Hot Springs has established a new robotic-assisted surgery program with the addition of the da Vinci® XiTM Surgical System, making it the only hospital across Southwest Arkansas to provide minimally invasive, robotic-assisted procedures. The da Vinci® XiTM Surgical System is part of a multidisciplinary program offering general surgery, gynecology, and urology services with significant patient benefits that include less pain, shorter hospital stays, and faster recovery times.
Postpartum psychosis is a serious, albeit rare illness, compared to the number of postpartum depression cases seen in the United States.
The Women’s Mental Health Program at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) on average treats two cases of the illness a year.
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