Tiny Hands Monster Bash Costume Party Oct. 26 to Benefit Family Home, UAMS Preemies
| LITTLE ROCK — Scare up some fun this Halloween at the Tiny Hands Monster Bash, a costume party fundraiser scheduled for 6:30-11 p.m. Oct. 26 at Next Level Events, located at 1400 W. Markham St. in Little Rock’s Union Station.
Tickets are $40 through Oct. 1 and $50 after that date. Purchase tickets by calling 512-468-0808. The party is open to guests 21 and older. Costumes are encouraged but not required.
Proceeds from the event benefit the Family Home of Little Rock and the neonatal intensive care unit at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).
The evening’s entertainment will include live music; dancing; silent and live auctions; a costume contest; and hors d’oeuvres. Beer, wine and “monster juice” cocktails are included in the ticket price; a cash bar also will be available.
The Tiny Hands Monster Bash honoree is Janie Lowe, director of the volunteer services and auxiliary at the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute. Presenting sponsors are Natalie and Win Rockefeller.
The Family Home is a private, nonprofit facility that offers comfortable and affordable housing to patients receiving outpatient treatment at the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute and to parents of premature infants being cared for at the UAMS Medical Center and Arkansas Children’s Hospital.
Since opening in 2003, the Family Home has housed more than 4,200 cancer patients, caregivers and new parents, including 125 families in 2017 alone. Residents have come from more than 30 states and several countries, including Bangladesh, Brazil and Trinidad.
UAMS is the state’s only health sciences university, with colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Health Professions and Public Health; a graduate school; a hospital; a main campus in Little Rock; a Northwest Arkansas regional campus in Fayetteville; a statewide network of regional campuses; and eight institutes: the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute, Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, Psychiatric Research Institute, Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging, Translational Research Institute, Institute for Digital Health & Innovation and the Institute for Community Health Innovation. UAMS includes UAMS Health, a statewide health system that encompasses all of UAMS’ clinical enterprise. UAMS is the only adult Level 1 trauma center in the state. UAMS has 3,275 students, 890 medical residents and fellows, and five dental residents. It is the state’s largest public employer with more than 12,000 employees, including 1,200 physicians who provide care to patients at UAMS, its regional campuses, Arkansas Children’s, the VA Medical Center and Baptist Health. Visit www.uams.edu or uamshealth.com. Find us on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), YouTube or Instagram.###