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Healthcare Journal of little rock I  NOV / DEC 2018 41 For weekly eNews updates and to read the journal online, visit HealthcareJournalLR.com experiences (ACEs), opioid abuse, mental health- care, and childhood obesity. Each fellow will continue working at his or her local practice while implementing a nine-month healthcare practice transformation project. The projects will match the needs of their primary care practice, including the social determinants of health. Healthcare transformation has the triple aim of improving patient outcomes, controlling costs, and improving patients’ satisfaction with their care. Social determinants are the circum- stances in which people live, work, age, and gain access to healthcare. They include factors such as poverty, education, and access to care, which are shaped by economic and political forces and social policies. The fellows will establish multidisciplinary teams within their communities that include the medical, educational, faith, and social ser- vices communities. Though these teams, the fel- lows will teach practical strategies to implement trauma-informed care. It is especially important to expand trauma-informed care, according to Daphne Gaulden, AFMC’s program director for the overall project. “Arkansas has the highest per- centage of children who have experienced ACEs and who continue to live with both the physical and emotional effects of that trauma,” Gaulden said. ARcare provides safety-net health services at 42 primary-care clinic sites, many in medically underserved and rural areas throughout Arkansas. ARcare clinics will provide access to MDs, Dos, and PAs who will be trained on trauma-informed care, healthcare transformation, team-based care, and improved sensitivity to social determinants of health. UAMS Tops Half aMillion on October 2 Day of Giving Over a 24-hour period beginning early Octo- ber 2, and ending in the wee hours of October 3, the foundation for UAMS received more than $500,000 for the state’s only health sciences uni- versity in response to the second annual UAMS Day of Giving fundraising campaign. Donations were still being counted when the total hit $518,000. “Philanthropic support is critical to the UAMS mission, which includes everything from Training Primary Care Champions, will train at least 20 healthcare professionals in leadership, team-based healthcare, practice transforma- tion to value-based care, and expanded use of trauma-informed care. AFMC will work with the Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine (ARCOM) in Fort Smith and ARcare, a federally qualified health center. The three partners will work to strengthen the pri- mary-care workforce and healthcare in medically underserved communities (MUCs) in rural Arkan- sas. Many of ARcare’s clinics are in these areas of limited healthcare access. AFMC, a nonprofit quality-improvement edu- cation organization, will plan, coordinate, moni- tor, and evaluate the project’s activities. “We are excited to launch this collaboration with ARCOM and ARcare clinics,” said AFMC President and CEO Ray Hanley. “Training doctors to be more effective in treating the trauma of adverse child- hood experiences and developing community- based healthcare teams can make a difference in the health of rural Arkansans over the long term.” ARCOM will establish a fellowship program to train five fellows each year the grant is in effect. They must be practicing primary-care physicians—medical doctors (MDs) or doc- tors of osteopathic medicine (DOs)—or phy- sician assistants (PAs). ARCOM will develop an intensive training program to enhance leader- ship skills, improve understanding of how social factors affect health, disseminate strategies to implement trauma-informed care, teach meth- ods to build team-based care, and improve qual- ity. The training will also identify best practices for trauma-informed care for adverse childhood St. Bernards Medical Center Saline Memorial Hospital Sparks Regional Medical Center Unity Health - White County Medical Center University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Washington Regional Medical Center White River Medical Center UAMS’ Richard-Davis, MD, Chairs North American Menopause SocietyMeeting Gloria Richard-Davis, MD, a fertility and repro- ductive specialist at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), was the Scientific Pro- gram Committee chair at the 2018 annual meet- ing of the North American Menopause Society (NAMS) that met recently in San Diego. NAMS is the premier organization in meno- pausal health. The meeting is considered the leading international medical conference dedi- cated to promoting the health and quality of life of all women during midlife and beyond. As chair, Richard-Davis worked with national and international experts to develop a pro- gram with the theme of Innovation, Evidence and Individualization: Moving Menopause Man- agement Forward.  Scientists from around the world presented the latest evidence based sci- entific research on improving quality and longev- ity of midlife women. Guidelines and policies for menopausal health is developed by NAMS from research lead and discovered by many of these scientists. At UAMS, Richard-Davis is a professor and director of the Division on Reproductive Endo- crinology and Infertility in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the College of Medicine. She is nationally known for her exper- tise in women’s health, including infertility, poly- cystic ovary syndrome, fibroids, menopause, and complex gynecology problems. AFMC and Partners Awarded Federal Grant to Train Primary Care Physicians AFMC has received a grant award totaling $1,902,095 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Health Resources and Services Administration. The five-year project, entitled Primary Care Training and Enhancement: Gloria Richard-Davis,MD