January 27, 2020

Baptist Health Urgent Care will open its eighth urgent care center in the west Little Rock area at 14524 Cantrell Road, Suite 160, next to Senor Tequila restaurant. 

Baptist Health Urgent Care currently has centers in Fort Smith, Little Rock, North Little Rock, Jacksonville, Cabot, Bryant, and Benton. 

January 27, 2020

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) will be hosting TEDxUAMS from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. on Feb. 7 at the UAMS Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute at 501 Jack Stephens Drive.

Following the spirit of TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design), TEDxUAMS aims to present multiple issues and a diversity of voices from many disciplines.

January 27, 2020

Paul H. Phillips, MD, has been appointed chair of the Department of Ophthalmology in the College of Medicine and director of the Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).

January 20, 2020

Medical Center of South Arkansas and emergency medical air transportation company, Survival Flight, have formed an alliance to bring enhanced emergency air transport services to the South Arkansas region. Beginning in February, this alliance will equip Medical Center of South Arkansas with an onsite helicopter and crew based on the hospital’s campus.

January 20, 2020

A trip to a national meeting of experts in healthcare, medicine, and public policy was a critical step toward  a career goal of addressing healthcare equality for a University of Arkansas biomedical engineering undergraduate.

Samia Ismail earned a travel grant from the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering to attend the group's Public Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., in the fall of 2019.