The foundation raised the money to complete three capital projects: a 24-bed intensive care unit, the expansion of a clinical laboratory, and a new behavioral health unit at Conway Regional Medical Center. read more >
Through the first five months of this year, Conway Regional Medical Center has a $2.4 million loss. And its financial health is expected to worsen if government and commercial health insurance companies don’t increase their reimbursements for services. read more >
Additions to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences campus in Little Rock account for two of the five biggest ongoing health care construction projects in Arkansas. read more >
The money will be used to add 265 beds at 11 hospitals under pressure from the omicron surge. 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 >
The suit could signal a trend of Arkansas lawsuits over employer vaccine requirements. read more >
A 1,360-acre slice of paradise in Lonoke County, an industrial project near the Little Rock Port, a west Little Rock eatery and apartments in Little Rock’s Hillcrest area provide this week’s quartet of million-dollar real estate transactions. read more >
A Little Rock firefighter recently scored a legal victory against the state’s largest hospital system over how it bills patients injured by the actions of others. read more >
Conway Regional Health System is holding a groundbreaking on Wednesday for its $13 million, three-story, medical office building on its main campus. read more >
A bill filed at the Arkansas Legislature is an effort to clarify and regulate services partnerships between state supported medical entities and private health systems. But it doesn’t appear likely to settle the disagreement between the central Arkansas health care providers that started it all. read more >
Representatives of Conway Regional Medical Center told lawmakers that it's considering legal and legislative action to deal with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ contract with Baptist Health Medical Center-Conway. read more >
The Health Sciences Entrepreneurship Boot Camp run by BioVentures recently won a national award, the second-place Innovations Research & Research Education Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges. read more >
Dr. Namvar Zohoori has been appointed to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Secretary’s Advisory Committee on National Health Promotion & Disease Prevention Objectives for 2030. read more >
Since March, Arkansas Children’s Hospital has added a second and third hospital to its nursery alliance and plans to add more medical centers to help keep newborns who need care closer to their homes. read more >
Doug Ross has been promoted to senior vice president and chief medical officer for CHI St. Vincent in Hot Springs. read more >
UAMS, ostensibly accountable to the public, is selling its doctors’ services, and the taxpayers who employ those doctors aren’t allowed to know how much the buyer is paying. read more >
It should come as no surprise that Conway Regional Medical Center, an acute-care hospital serving five counties, takes its employees health very seriously. read more >
Conway Regional Health System CEO Matt Troup has a plan to deal with the increased competition from the Little Rock health system’s Baptist Health Medical Center-Conway. read more >
Dr. Ahmed A. Ali recently joined the medical staff at Conway Regional Medical Center. Ali is an internal medicine specialist and former director of the hospitalist program at Jefferson Regional Medical Center in Pine Bluff. read more >
Conway’s current health care landscape is characterized by more players entering the market, providing additional capacity within city limits and expanding and enhancing services here and in surrounding communities. read more >
