Mobley Moves to ARcare (Movers & Shakers)
Jamie Mobley has joined ARcare of Augusta as senior vice president of marketing, overseeing the health care network’s brand in Arkansas, Mississippi and Kentucky. read more >
Jamie Mobley has joined ARcare of Augusta as senior vice president of marketing, overseeing the health care network’s brand in Arkansas, Mississippi and Kentucky. read more >
Jefferson Regional Medical Center in Pine Bluff is overhauling the way it provides cancer services. read more >
Baxter Regional Medical Center and Highlands Oncology Group officials broke ground on a $16 million cancer treatment center on Aug. 28 with a goal to begin seeing patients in October 2022. read more >
It's another step in the health system's effort to expand and improve services. read more >
Dr. Leonard Dale Morgan and Dr. Austin N. Barber have joined Baxter Regional Medical Center in Mountain Home. read more >
The Baxter Regional Hospital Foundation announces the public phase of its "5 South Surgical Services Capital Campaign" to remodel its Surgical Services Unit. read more >
Dr. Bethany Knight and Kristie Branscum have joined Baxter Regional Health System Hometown Clinic at Calico Rock. read more >
Dr. Stephanie Pereira and Dr. Ryan Mantooth have joined Washington Regional in Fayetteville as emergency medicine physicians. read more >
Baxter Regional Medical Center has not yet had a confirmed case of COVID-19, but the Mountain Home hospital is nevertheless feeling the impacts of the pandemic. read more >
The COVID-19 pandemic threatens the survival of rural hospitals in Arkansas, several hospital administrators told Arkansas Business last week. read more >
CHI St. Vincent is the latest health care provider to furlough employees and implement a hiring freeze because of the COVID-19 pandemic. read more >
Baxter Regional Medical Center of Mountain Home furloughs 105 employees as patient volume declines amid the COVID-19 pandemic. read more >
COVID-19 has turned the world upside down, but it is also ushering telemedicine into widespread acceptance in Arkansas. read more >
Tobias Pugsley wants to take care of the people who grew up taking care of him. read more >
Dr. Krishna Nalleballe has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock as a stroke neurologist and as a consulting neurologist with the Arkansas Stroke Assistance through Virtual Emergency Support network. read more >
Soon, Dr. Michael Adkins will be the only pediatrician in Mountain Home, a situation officials at Baxter Regional Medical Center say they are working to rectify. read more >
Baxter Regional Medical Center in Mountain Home is one of several hospitals appealing a federal court’s decision denying their request to speed up Medicare claim appeals by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. read more >
Adding to hospital frustration is the way that the RACs, which are private companies, are paid: They have a financial incentive to deny as many claims as possible because they receive up to 12.5 percent of the money recovered. read more >
If Dr. Stacey M. Johnson of Mountain Home had not died earlier this year at 63, he likely would have been charged with overbilling Medicare by $14.7 million, according to a criminal investigator’s affidavit that was recently made public. read more >
Doing business with hospitals can mean big business for vendors, and tax forms filed by nonprofit hospitals provide a peek into how hundreds of millions of dollars are spent. read more >
