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Since the ribbon-cutting ceremony a year ago, the Centers for Children--ACH’s and UAMS’ largest regional pediatric facility--has grown exponentially. |
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Centers for Children Celebrates One Year in NWA
In its first year, the Centers for Children in Lowell, Ark. has sprouted up like a weed.
The facility, a collaboration of Arkansas Children’s Hospital (ACH) and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) brings pediatric subspecialists to Northwest Arkansas on a regular schedule to treat area children and provides ancillary services such as pediatric labs to support their work.
JENNIFER BOULDEN |
Dr. Rhonda Henry-Tillman, a UAMS surgical oncologist, addresses legislators while Paul Greene, Ph.D., a professor of health and behavior education at the Fay W. Boozman College of Health, listens. |
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Gaps Found in Arkansas Colorectal Cancer Screenings
But State Can Increase Screenings With Existing Resources
Colorectal cancer will strike 1,690 Arkansans this year and kill 580 of them. One in 19 Americans will be diagnosed with the disease at some point in their lifetime. It’s the nation’s second deadliest cancer, and Arkansas has the highest age-adjusted annual death rate in the nation.
STEVE BRAWNER |
Grand Rounds August
St. Anthony’s CEO Attends Regional Policy Board Meeting
Chastain Named Executive Director of Crittenden Regional Hospital Foundation
UAMS Study Shows Potential to Greatly Diminish Ringing in the Ears
UAMS College of Medicine Names Ansel Chairman of Dermatology
New St. Vincent Physician
Arkansas Allergy & Asthma Clinic, P.A. Welcomes New Physician
Sip Mouden Receives Rural Advocate Of The Year Award
Brown Joins ACH as New Senior VP and Chief Nursing Officer
Jeanette Lee, Ph.D., to Lead Biostatistics at UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute
Baptist Health Medical Center-Little Rock Offers State-Of-The-Art Therapy For Advanced-Stage Heart Failure Patients
Ring Retires from Healthcare
UAMS Study Gives Hope for Earlier Osteoporosis Diagnoses
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Mystery Illness Causes County Health Department Evacuation
Environmental Building Protocols Important for Public Health
It still remains a mystery what caused a June 19 outbreak of illness at the Washington County Health Department in Fayetteville that sent 29 employees and 2 clients to the emergency room after they experienced nausea, dizziness and vomiting.
“I don’t think we are ever going to know exactly what happened in that building,” said Shirley Louie, associate branch chief for epidemiology, Arkansas Department of Health. “More than likely it was something in the air being inhaled, something people were being exposed to as a group.”
BECKY GILLETTE |
Physician Spotlight: Dr. Robert Gullett
As deeply as Robert Gullett, MD loves the Razorbacks, he finds it rough sitting in the stands at University of Arkansas football games. For a long stretch of his 30-year orthopedic surgery career in Pine Bluff, he was also team doctor for the Pine Bluff High School Zebras. “You get used to being there on the field, mixing with the players,” he explained. “It’s hard to have to stay in the stands when you’re used to being in the center of the action. It’s in my blood now.”
JENNIFER BOULDEN |
State Child Immunization Ranking Uncertain
No Doubt about the Need to Get Kids Immunized
Arkansas ranks low when compared to other states regarding child immunization rates, but just how low is hard to determine from statistics compiled by the Centers for Disease Control.
According to the CDC’s latest National Immunization Survey, which covers July 2006 through June 2007, 76.3 percent of Arkansas children ages 19-35 months have received all of the doses they need of five vaccines...
STEVE BRAWNER |
State’s Medicaid Family Planning Program a Leader
Study Compares Waiver Programs Across the U.S.
Arkansas’ Medicaid family planning program looks good in a new study that compares the programs in 26 states, but there is still a need to enroll more women in the program.
“Arkansas was one of the first states to seek and receive federal approval for their program. They’ve been leaders,” said Rachel Benson Gold, director of policy analysis of the Guttmacher Institute in Washington, D.C., and one of the study’s authors.
“I see Arkansas as doing well, but with room for improvement,” said Bradley Planey, associate branch chief, family health branch, Arkansas Department of Health in Little Rock.
ROBYN JACKSON |
Commissioner Virginia Trotter Betts of the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities |
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Symposium to Address Mental Health Conditions, Medicare/Medicaid
A diverse panel of experts will discuss trends in treating people with mental health conditions during a seminar Sept. 23 in Little Rock.
Windsor Medicare Extra of Brentwood, Tenn., is hosting the Behavioral Health Symposium, “Integrating Mental and Medical Health Services.”
Keynote speaker will be Jay Bradford, director of the Division of Behavioral Health Services, Arkansas Department of Health and Human Services. Jay Harrington, vice president of Special Needs Plans for Windsor Medicare Extra, will also present information on integrated care for Medicare beneficiaries.
ROBYN JACKSON |
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