A satellite clinic for UAMS Health’s kidney and liver transplant patients in southwest Arkansas opened at the UAMS Southwest Regional Campus in Texarkana.
Post-transplant follow-up care will be provided at the clinic, located inside the existing UAMS Family Medical Center at 3417 U of A Way, on the fourth Friday of each month. The clinic will also provide pancreatic and cancer evaluation and care; management of disorders of the bile ducts; and care for liver failure and liver dysfunction.
The CHI St. Vincent Hot Springs Cancer Center was granted three-year accreditation by the Commission on Cancer (CoC), a quality program of the American College of Surgeons. To earn voluntary CoC accreditation, a cancer program must meet 34 CoC quality care standards, be evaluated every three years through a survey process, and maintain levels of excellence in the delivery of comprehensive patient-centered care.
A device now being used at Mercy hospitals in Arkansas has helped improve patient experience while creating a better workflow for doctors.
The SAVI SCOUT system allows surgeons to pinpoint breast tumors more easily prior to a lumpectomy or surgical biopsy procedure. The system uses a reflector placed on top of the tumor and radar technology to help guide surgeons to its location, thus eliminating the need for wires to be used in localization.
Arkansas Children’s joined a coalition bringing together some of the nation’s top children’s hospitals, in collaboration with Phlow, to provide certainty in availability and access for key medicines necessary to sustain life and conquer disease. The Children’s Hospital Coalition, powered by PhlowTM (CHC) will address the nation’s broken essential medicines supply chain.
Working from home may be the “new normal,” but that doesn’t mean unhealthy eating has to be.
