If you have prediabetes or other risk factors for type 2 diabetes, a free online program available through Baptist Health Community Outreach called the National Diabetes Prevention Program – or National DPP – can help you improve your health.
Classes start virtually on March 4 and registration runs through then. Participants must be 18 or older and have a BMI of 25 or higher and an A1C of between 5.7-6.4 or a Diabetes Risk Assessment of 5 or higher.
Gannon B. Randolph, MD, has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as an orthopaedic spine surgeon practicing at UAMS Health Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine. He will see patients at the UAMS Health Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine Clinic in Lowell.
Mercy Clinic Primary Care – Towson is at 4620 Towson Ave., at the corner of Phoenix Avenue. Mercy leaders, along with officials from the Fort Smith Regional Chamber of Commerce, city of Fort Smith and others, were on hand Jan. 29 to celebrate Mercy Fort Smith’s expansion to Towson Ave.
Fareed Kannout, MD, internal medicine specialist with Mercy, is moving his practice from Zero Street to the Towson Avenue clinic, with up to three additional providers expected to join at a later time.
Baptist Health Foundation recently announced a $50,000 donation from Bob and Jeanne Fitzgerald in honor of their son, Ryan Fitzgerald, MD, a heart transplant recipient.
CARTI has secured funding through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) to finalize the development of its comprehensive cancer center in El Dorado.
