The Sevier County judge is lobbying to build a new hospital after the De Queen Medical Center closed in February, leaving behind a pile of debt and lawsuits for its owner.
Startups that build medical devices must clear some high hurdles, but the rewards can be huge.
The Little Rock mutual health insurance company is still the state's largest private company with revenue of $2.48 billion in 2018. However, the revenue figure was down — a little less than 2% — from $2.52 billion in 2017, ending a streak of at least 15 years of revenue growth.
The Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission will meet Wednesday to discuss company name, location and floor-plan changes, as well as four requests for ownership changes in the state's burgeoning medical cannabis industry. read more >
Insurance and health pros talk winners, losers and the future of the Affordable Care Act and its effects felt in Arkansas. read more >
A startup that offers financial services to the cannabis industry has scored $800,000 from investors. read more >
For the first time in nearly 18 years, the Arkansas Department of Health's stop-smoking media campaign is apparently heading not to Little Rock marketing stalwart CJRW, but to a rival. read more >
The sale of a 384-unit apartment complex in North Little Rock leads off this week's lineup of million-dollar real estate transactions. read more >
Even regarding that most divisive of issues, Obamacare, partisans can find areas of agreement. read more >
J. Larry Shackelford, the chief of Washington Regional Medical System in Fayetteville, thinks hospital price transparency is on the horizon. read more >
Brian Berry has been named vice provost for research and dean of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Graduate School. read more >
The United States spends more per person on health care than similarly wealthy countries: $10,224 per person in 2017. That was 28% higher than Switzerland, the next highest spender per capita. read more >
Health care is critical to the Arkansas economy. Not only is it a major driver of high paying jobs, but access to health care is a significant quality of life factor impacting the retention and attraction of high wage jobs in other industries. read more >
Gov. Asa Hutchinson makes appointments to state boards and commissions. read more >
Just a month after the state's first medical marijuana dispensaries opened, Arkansas' new legal cannabis industry is already a million-dollar affair. read more >
A coalition of medical doctors called Safe Surgery Arkansas announced Tuesday the formation of a ballot question committee to coordinate a statewide referendum challenging Act 579 of 2019. read more >
When states legalize pot for all adults, long-standing medical marijuana programs take a big hit, in some cases losing more than half their registered patients in just a few years, according to a data analysis by The Associated Press. read more >
If it's absolutely legal and ethical and in the state's best interest for the Crime Lab to contract with a company owned by its assistant director, and if no bidding is necessary on the specific item being purchased, why pay extra for a middleman? read more >
New Age Hemp LLC's leadership wants to make two things starkly clear: Grandma's hemp-based CBD oil is legal, and it won't make her high. read more >
CHI St. Vincent has scheduled June 14 for the grand opening for its Arkansas Neuroscience Institute in Sherwood, marking the end of a $30 million construction and renovation project. read more >
Charles King was recently hired by Philander Smith College in Little Rock as the new vice president for institutional advancement. read more >
Colleen Canfield was recently promoted from operating room manager to director of surgical services of White River Health System in Batesville. read more >
A University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences researcher gets $1.89 million from the National Institutes of Health to continue his work investigating hypertension. read more >
Emerging leaders from business, nonprofit and policy sectors can again learn from some of the most successful and recognizable names in Arkansas as part of the Arkansas Business Executive Leadership Academy. read more >
St. Bernards will hold a ribbon-cutting for its surgical and intensive care tower on Dec. 10, and patients will move into the 245,000-SF building on Dec. 13. read more >
Median incomes of U.S. households are rising again, and “those headed by a Millennial (someone age 22 to 37) now earn more than young adult households did at nearly any time in the past 50 years,” according to the Pew Research Center. read more >
An Arkansas man who wore M.D. on his name tag and hung an unearned medical diploma in his office for years may be at it again five years after pleading guilty to practicing medicine without a license. read more >
Overestimating one's own competence is not really the news here. What's new is the consistency with which other people — complete strangers, even — interpret confidence as competence. read more >
We have suggested to Michael Pakko, the state economic forecaster, that the volume of Movers & Shakers landing in our queue be considered an economic indicator. By that indication, Arkansas' economy is humming. read more >
Walmart's initiative to change its “people greeter” jobs to ones that require more physical labor brought complaints and a lawsuit against the Bentonville retailer over allegations that it violated the Americans With Disabilities Act. read more >
Sheila Williams, who most recently served as vice president and administrator at Baptist Health Medical Center-Hot Spring County, has been named executive director of Baptist Health's PACE program in North Little Rock. read more >
Dr. Sara Tariq has been named to the new position of associate dean for student affairs in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock. read more >
Mark Young and William “Goose” Changose have joined the board of directors of the Arkansas Association of Asian Businesses. read more >
