UAMS Earns American Heart Association Recognition for Workforce Health, Well-Being
| The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) earned a top honor from the American Heart Association (AHA) Well-being Works Better program.
The Well-being Works Better Scorecard highlights businesses for their commitment to building a culture of health and well-being. Forbes published an article in October featuring the scorecard and its most recent honorees.
Ranking in the Gold Tier for 2024 and 2025, UAMS is the only institution in Arkansas to achieve that status.
“UAMS has been a participant in workplace wellness programming since 2018,” said Natalie Cannady, M.Ed., UAMS director of wellness & chief well-being officer. “We have moved up to being a Gold recipient in recent years. One of the goals of Vision 2029 is to be a Forbes employer of choice. Being aligned with the Well-being Works Better scorecard will help us move towards this goal.”
Vision 2029 is UAMS’ effort to lead Arkansas to be the healthiest state in the region through synergies of education, clinical care, research and purposeful leadership.
“It is essential that UAMS prioritize the health and well-being of its employees,” said C. Lowry Barnes, M.D., interim chancellor and professor and chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation. “After all, if our employees aren’t healthy and cared for, then how can they provide the best care to our patients?”
The AHA Well-being Works Better Scorecard is a no-cost, online assessment tool that reveals participating companies’ ranking in wellness categories such as leadership support and burnout prevention.
“The scorecard asks for population details, benefit offerings, programming available to our employees through not just our benefits but also services provided by UAMS to Arkansans,” Cannady said. “We have a huge offering of services through our SmartCare programming that helps our employees access the care they need.”
“This ranking shows we are making a continued effort to offer health and well-being offerings to our employees and that we continue to provide services at UAMS to benefit not just the state of Arkansas but our own employees as well,” she added.