Sanders Picks Kristi Putnam to Lead DHS
Putnam, a central Florida native, formerly worked in the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services. read more >
Putnam, a central Florida native, formerly worked in the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services. read more >
White takes over Oct. 8 for Cindy Gillespie, who is stepping down after running the agency for more than six years. read more >
She's run the agency for more than six years. read more >
As many hospitals struggle financially, the Arkansas Department of Human Services has proposed using $60 million of the state’s American Rescue Plan Act to help keep their doors open. read more >
The judgment was the latest blow to Joseph Schwartz, whose Skyline Health Care LLC was in charge of 21 nursing homes across Arkansas. read more >
The location will support the software and systems integration firm’s projects in Arkansas, Mississippi and Georgia to modernize state child welfare programs. read more >
In December, a former Arkansas nursing home operator was charged with eight counts of Medicaid fraud and two counts of failing to pay taxes. Then things went really wrong for Joseph Schwartz. read more >
Gov. Asa Hutchinson said it will allow 300,000 low-income residents to continue receiving health care. read more >
Shay Stevens of Little Rock is selling her home care business, Millennium Companion Inc., in an era of wage pressures and acquisitions. read more >
Investors from Idaho paid $10.2 million for three student townhome projects in Fayetteville. read more >
Nearly three years after a gunshot to the head killed his 20-year-old son in a Jefferson County hunting lodge in 2015, Kerry Baker of Conway started the machinery to dig up his boy’s body for the autopsy he had initially declined. read more >
One fact is certain: Kerry Baker’s 20-year-old son died of a gunshot to the head at a Jefferson County hunting lodge on Oct. 24, 2015. read more >
Dr. James Rudder has joined the medical team of Magnolia Regional Medical Center. read more >
The two office buildings that house the Arkansas Department of Human Services have been sold for an undisclosed amount to a private equity investor in Chicago. read more >
Recovery centers across the state are trying to fill the void left by the recent closure of Quapaw House Inc., the troubled Hot Springs drug and alcohol treatment provider. read more >
Quapaw House Inc., the troubled Hot Springs drug and alcohol treatment provider, has no employees, no open locations and no receiver nowadays, a lawyer for the company says, though it does have more than $13 million in debt. read more >
Dr. Jeff Bell recently joined Washington Regional General Surgery Clinic in Fayetteville. read more >
The University of Arkansas at Fort Smith’s School of Education has received a $1.8 million grant that will allow it to offer more free professional development to the state’s early childhood educators. read more >
KATV is missing Jason Pederson, who left the Little Rock ABC affiliate after 24 years to create an ombudsman’s office at the Arkansas Department of Human Services. read more >
