NORTH LITTLE ROCK – Baptist Health held a ribbon cutting and ceremony to celebrate the grand opening of Baptist Health Behavioral Health Clinic-North Little Rock, near Baptist Health Medical Center-North Little Rock.

The clinic is staffed by faculty and residents from the Baptist Health-University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Medical Education Program:

• ​​Jane Kang: core faculty for the Baptist Health-UAMS Psychiatry Residency Program and medical director of Baptist Health Behavioral Health Clinic-North Little Rock. She is also a board-certified psychiatrist with 17 years clinical experience in adult psychiatry.
• Kristen McGrew, Ed.D, LPC, NCC, BC-TMH: therapist faculty who has practiced psychotherapy for over 14 years, providing individual, family, and marital counseling to patients of all ages and diagnoses.
• Amanda Thompson, LCSW: outpatient therapist and licensed clinical social worker of more than 17 years who provides psychotherapy for individuals and couples using cognitive behavioral therapy, supportive therapy, and acceptance and commitment therapy.
• Resident physicians are Dr. Preetam Reddy who went to medical school at Aureus University School of Medicine in Oranjestad, Aruba, and Thomas Fister, D.O., who went to medical school at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic in Medicine Erie, Pennsylvania.

Arkansas has greater shortages of psychiatrists than the national average, and the COVID-19 pandemic worsened the situation. The Psychiatry Residency Program offered through Baptist Health and UAMS is focused on retaining well-rounded psychiatrists in the state. It is additionally committed to caring for patients of all needs and to working well with other mental health professionals and integrated behavioral health settings.

Services at Baptist Health Behavioral Health Clinic-North Little Rock include personal and family grief/bereavement; addictions/substance abuse; conflict management/resolution, work and career issues; stress management; and psychiatric care.

Baptist Health’s outpatient mental health clinics provide care to individuals and families throughout Arkansas. Our licensed and accredited psychiatrists and therapists currently provide care to adults, but will be expanding in the near future to include children and adolescents.

Baptist Health Behavioral Health Clinic-North Little Rock is located in the Medical Office Building at 3201 Springhill Drive, Suite 400, in North Little Rock. It is open Monday through Thursday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Friday from 8 a.m. to noon.

For more information about the clinic, visit Baptist-Health.com or call Baptist Health HealthLine at 1-888-BAPTIST.