Tiny Hands Monster Bash to Benefit UAMS Family Home, Neonatal Nursery

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LITTLE ROCK – Celebrate Halloween early by making plans to attend the Tiny Hands Monster Bash, a fund raiser benefiting the UAMS Family Home and neonatal intensive care unit. The event is scheduled for 7-11:30 p.m. Oct. 22 at Next Level Events in the Train Station at 1400 W. Markham St.


 


Guests are invited to come in costume if they choose and enjoy cocktails, a silent auction, hors d’oeuvres and live music by the Big John Miller Band. Tickets are $45. For more information or to purchase tickets, call Margaret Faulkner at 661-1077.


 


The UAMS Family Home is a private, nonprofit facility that offers comfortable and affordable housing to patients at the UAMS Arkansas Cancer Research Center (ACRC) and to parents of premature infants being cared for at the UAMS Medical Center. The Family Home also houses the ACRC Auxiliary Cancer Support Center and is located across from the UAMS campus at 4300 W. Markham St.


 


The UAMS neonatal intensive care unit is one of the most sophisticated facilities in the state, providing care for premature infants and those born with a variety of medical conditions.


 


UAMS is the state’s only comprehensive academic health center, with five colleges, a graduate school, a medical center, five centers of excellence and a statewide network of regional centers. UAMS has about 2,320 students and 690 residents and is the state’s largest public employer with almost 9,000 employees. UAMS and its affiliates have an economic impact in Arkansas of $4.3 billion a year. UAMS centers of excellence are the Arkansas Cancer Research Center, Harvey and Bernice Jones Eye Institute, Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging, Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy and Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute.