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Sleep Clinics Becoming Mainstream
Like many of the snores it treats, sleep medicine is booming.
In 1978, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine reported only three accredited sleep facilities in the United States. By 2003, there were 678, a third of which were less than three years old.
Jennifer Boulden |
Sleep Clinics Becoming Mainstream
Like many of the snores it treats, sleep medicine is booming.
In 1978, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine reported only three accredited sleep facilities in the United States. By 2003, there were 678, a third of which were less than three years old.
Jennifer Boulden |
UAMS Receives Grants
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor, and Rep. Vic Snyder announced recently that UAMS had been awarded two grants totaling $502,385 from the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Cervical Cancer Awareness
January was Cervical Cancer Awareness Month, and a group of legislators led by Lt. Gov. Bill Halter and state Rep. Wilhelmina Lewellen held a press conference on the state capitol rotunda in mid-January.
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Rested and Ready?
On July 1, 2003 the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) rolled out new duty hour standards affecting all specialties. These across-the-board common standards did little to impact "business as usual" for some specialties. For others, however, the changes caused a dramatic paradigm shift that still reverberates today. ACGME is the accrediting agency responsible for overseeing nearly 104,000 residents in 8,200 programs and approximately 700 teaching hospitals nationwide.
CINDY SANDERS |
AFMC Appoints Team
The Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care recently appointed a corporate compliance officer and four new assistant vice presidents to its team, according to CEO Dr. Nick J. Paslidis.
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Click It Or Die
A large group of diverse organizations is lobbying the legislature this session for a primary seatbelt law.
"Anyone with anything to do with medicine is on this list, we've got them all," said coalition spokesperson Dennis Jungmeyer. "We have 40, maybe 50 endorsing organizations that are pushing for this."
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Jenkins Named To International Nurse Leadership Board
Bonnie Jenkins, RN, director of program coordination for the Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy at UAMS, was one of 20 oncology nurses from across the country named recently to the International Myeloma Foundation's Nurse Leadership Board.
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Dining for Dollars
Former governor Jim Guy Tucker was one of more than 500 on hand for a dinner kicking off a fundraising campaign for UAMS in late January at the Peabody Hotel in downtown Little Rock.
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Funding Plan Floated for Statewide Trauma Network
Everyone likes the idea of a statewide trauma care network and can see why Arkansas needs one, but the key to legislative approval will be figuring out a way to pay for the system, according to backers.
Ted Griggs |
UAMS, Arkansas Children's Hospital Announce Collaborative Work
The Arkansas Children's Hospital Board of Directors and the University of Arkansas Board of Trustees have approved a statewide working collaborative between UAMS and Children's. The UAMS /Children's Center for Children in Lowell, expected to be completed this spring, will be added to the collaborative along with 24 existing clinics throughout the state.
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Agents: They're Not Just for Athletes Anymore
While a Jerry Maguire type might be a bit extreme, physicians today are discovering that an agent can be an asset when establishing or relocating a practice. After all, it's still about "show me the money."
Sharon H. Fitzgerald |
Physician Spotlight: Dr. Gary Villines
Dr. Gary Villines didn't set out to be a specialist in hyperbaric therapy, but after a long career in emergency medicine, that's exactly what the Arkansas native has become.
Jeremy Peppas |
¿No Hablo Inglés?
Healthcare Looks for Help with Hispanic Population
What difference does one word make? In the case of healthcare, it could be the difference between life and death, especially for non-English-speaking patients.
Jeremy Peppas |
Heart Team Sets Hospital Record for Open Heart Procedures
The Heart Team at Arkansas Children's Hospital performed 299 open-heart procedures during calendar year 2006, setting a record for the hospital. The unprecedented number of cases is a 62 percent increase from the 185 open-heart procedures conducted at Children's in 2005. A surgical procedure referenced as an open-heart procedure includes heart transplants and any procedure that requires use of a heart/ lung bypass machine.
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Lung Association, Blue Cross Again Partner for Contest
The American Lung Association of Arkansas and Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield are again sponsoring the sixth annual "Don't Start" Smoking Storyboard Coloring Contest. The contest allows elementary students throughout the state to design and write a story about why people should never start to smoke. The contest began in January and will end on March 30.
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Baptist Health Adds Occupational Therapy Assistant School
The Baptist Health School of Occupational Therapy Assistant is the newest program for the Baptist Health Schools of Nursing and Allied Health. The program, which began in response to a need for occupational therapy assistants in the community, is the only one of its kind in the central Arkansas area.
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BioVentures Set to Host Private Equity Roundtable
In March, UAMS BioVentures, the university's biotechnology incubator, is kick-starting the process of bringing scientists and venture capitalists together by hosting the first of its annual Private Equity Roundtables.
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Rested and Ready?
On July 1, 2003 the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) rolled out new duty hour standards affecting all specialties. These across-the-board common standards did little to impact "business as usual" for some specialties. For others, however, the changes caused a dramatic paradigm shift that still reverberates today. ACGME is the accrediting agency responsible for overseeing nearly 104,000 residents in 8,200 programs and approximately 700 teaching hospitals nationwide.
CINDY SANDERS |
Doctors Often Ignore Critical Info on Drugs
Americans are taking more pharmaceuticals than ever, but a pair of new studies concludes that doctors often hurriedly hand out prescriptions with no advice on potential side effects and little concern for the patient's ability to pay for the drugs they're prescribing.
John Carroll |
Agents: They're Not Just for Athletes Anymore
While a Jerry Maguire type might be a bit extreme, physicians today are discovering that an agent can be an asset when establishing or relocating a practice. After all, it's still about "show me the money."
Sharon H. Fitzgerald |
Physician Spotlight: Dr. Gary Villines
Dr. Gary Villines didn't set out to be a specialist in hyperbaric therapy, but after a long career in emergency medicine, that's exactly what the Arkansas native has become.
Jeremy Peppas |
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