Clinical trials for COVID-19 vaccines and treatments are underway at two Arkansas hospitals, while a third is distributing a new treatment and all three are distributing vaccines. Their goal? To keep the infected from overwhelming the health care system. read more >
Dr. Naga Saranya Addepally has joined CHI St. Vincent Diagnostic Clinic in Little Rock as a gastroenterologist. read more >
Dr. Bethany Knight and Kristie Branscum have joined Baxter Regional Health System Hometown Clinic at Calico Rock. read more >
Unity Health of Searcy says it plans to buy the former North Metro Medical Center building in Jacksonville, and expects to start seeing patients in the summer. read more >
Unity Health of Searcy makes another move in the Cabot market. read more >
A Searcy doctor with millions of dollars of debt and a troubled history with state regulators now confronts his latest nightmare: A lender has accused Dr. Benjamin Carlyle of submitting false financial statements to obtain loans. read more >
Dr. Roddy Lochala is the new chief medical officer of Unity Health in Searcy. read more >
Steven Webb, CEO of Unity Health, says the premature birth of his son led him to an understanding of the team nature of hospitals. read more >
Steven Webb decided to go into health care after his son was born premature. While at the hospital with his child, who was in the neonatal intensive care unit, Webb saw how all employees, from doctors to food service workers, played a role in his care. read more >
Joseph Bates III of the Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the annual Health Care Heroes awards luncheon on April 24. read more >
Arkansas Colleges of Health Education recently announced a new partnership between the Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine and Unity Health in Searcy to deliver graduate medical education training for its resident physicians. read more >
In 1988, Stuart Hill joined White County Medical Center of Searcy, which later became Unity Health, and he’s had the same title, vice president treasurer, for almost 30 years. read more >
Arkansas labor and employment attorneys are keeping an eye on challenges to the U.S. Department of Labor’s overtime rules as well as a bill that would amend the Minimum Wage Act in Arkansas. read more >
Some Arkansas hospitals are feeling the fallout from Arkansas Blue Cross & Blue Shield not receiving the premium increase it requested last fall. read more >
With Obamacare in critical condition, Arkansas hospital officials are closely watching Washington while warning that it’s too early to predict an outcome. read more >
With a workforce of more than 2,000, 438 licensed beds and a medical staff of 150 physicians who specialize in various areas of health care, Searcy-based Unity Health has become a major player in the Arkansas health care landscape. read more >
The centerpiece of the Department of Labor’s new overtime regulations raises the threshold of what salaried workers must be paid in order to qualify as an exempt employee. read more >
A Searcy-based hospital system has become the first health care organization in Arkansas to join the Mayo Clinic Care Network. read more >
DeWitt Hospital & Nursing Home is looking for a new CEO after Darren Caldwell in August began working for Unity Health of Searcy. read more >
You don’t have to look very far to see the lengths to which Searcy-based Unity Health has gone to provide for the health and wellness of its employees. read more >
