August 13, 2021
Team UAMS Wears Blue to Thank Health Care Workers during Pandemic
![Wear Blue](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/WearBlueMedCtr5-featured-150x150.jpg)
Blue met blue at UAMS and said ‘thank you’ starting at 6 a.m. Aug. 13. More than 50 UAMS volunteers in various articles of blue clothing gathered at three separate campus building entrances to say ‘thank you’ to co-workers, most of whom work in clinical areas and many of them in similarly colored apparel.
August 12, 2021
Short-Term Child Care Assistance For Essential Workers
The 2021 Federal COVID Relief Package provides additional funding for child care providers and essential worker child care assistance.
August 7, 2021
August MVP — Gloria Flowers Williams
![Gloria Flowers Williams](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Flowers_Williams_Gloria-Aug-featured-150x150.jpg)
The MVP for August is Gloria Flowers Williams, who in the course of her job exemplifies all of the UAMS values of being polite, friendly, respectful, thoughtful, optimistic and compassionate. Gloria is an administrative specialist in the Department of Patient Safety and Relations. Here is what her nominator wrote:
Gloria is one of our first lines for a patient complaint – she takes down their information and helps coordinate that message to the correct Patient Relations Coordinator. She listens to angry or upset patients…
August 4, 2021
Expert Panel Answers COVID-19 Questions at Chancellor’s Town Hall
![Before the town hall, Robert Hopkins Jr., second from right, talks with James Graham (standing), Michelle Krause and Steppe Mette, right. All four physicians made up a panel of experts who answered questions at the meeting.](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/COVID-Townhal-lfeatured-150x150.jpg)
A Town Hall panel gathered July 28 to answer questions from the online audience about COVID-19 featured familiar faces.
August 3, 2021
UAMS Celebrates MVP Awardees at Second Annual Luncheon
![Cam Patterson and 2021 MVPs](https://news.uams.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/MVP-Luncheon2021-featured-150x150.jpg)
Chancellor Cam Patterson, M.D., MBA, at a July 28 luncheon thanked and praised UAMS employees who in the last 12 months won an MVP award and whose contributions in earlier years might have gone largely unsung.
Fourth Street Pedestrian, Vehicle Traffic Restricted
The most recent UAMS project (Radiation Oncology Center/Proton Therapy Center) has begun at the intersection of Fourth and Cedar streets. Because of the project, Fourth Street is effectively closed between Cedar and Pine streets and will be for the next two years.
July 29, 2021
Interim COVID Event Policy Updated
The Chancellor’s office has recently updated the UAMS events policy. We appreciate everyone’s understanding and cooperation when hosting UAMS affiliated events.
July 22, 2021
Change in International Travel Requirements for UAMS Employees and Students
New UAMS guidelines require that all employees, non-employees and students returning from international travel, regardless of vaccination status, undergo COVID-19 PCR testing after returning to the United States before returning to a UAMS campus or work.
July 15, 2021
Organizational Development Offers Additional Change Management Courses
Organizational Development has added additional change management courses designed to target specific audiences to better meet your needs: For Leaders Managing Change, For Any Managers with Direct Reports and Front Line Employee Survival Guide to Change.
Supply Chain Procurement Request Portal Launches Improvements
On Thursday, July 15, 2021, the UAMS Supply Chain Request Portal will launch improvements to the request process and tracking individual requests. For your convenience, the following short videos are available to assist with your experience.
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