April 17, 2020

UAMS Provides COVID-19 Mobile Triage Evaluation to Forrest City, Delta

Ben Boulden

UAMS Chancellor Cam Patterson, second from left, talks with Forrest City Mayor Cedric Williams, far right, and State Rep. Reginald Murdock, second from right, April 16 in Forrest City.

As one who has recovered from COVID-19, state Rep. Reginald Murdock, of Marianna,  knows the importance of the COVID-19 screening and testing UAMS provided April 16 to Forrest City residents. “The citizens are doing the right thing by making sure they get screened and tested, so we can continue to try to slam this curve…


April 16, 2020

UAMS to Provide Free COVID-19 Drive-Thru Evaluation April 21 in Marianna

Ben Boulden

LITTLE ROCK — A free community drive-thru evaluation clinic for COVID-19 will be held from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. April 21 at Marianna Civic Center at 593 Arkansas Highway 243. The clinic will be conducted by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), along with Lee County Cooperative Clinic. You do not have…


April 15, 2020

UAMS, Partners to Provide Free COVID-19 Drive-Thru Evaluation April 22 in East Camden

Ben Boulden

LITTLE ROCK — A free community drive-thru evaluation clinic for COVID-19 will be held from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. April 22 at Southern Arkansas University Tech Student Center at 6415 Spellman Road in East Camden. The clinic will be conducted by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), along with Ouachita County Medical…


April 14, 2020

UAMS to Provide Free COVID-19 Drive-Thru Evaluation April 20 in McGehee

Ben Boulden

LITTLE ROCK — A free community drive-thru evaluation clinic for COVID-19 will be held from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. April 20 at McGehee Men’s Club Community Center, 1 South Airport Road in McGehee. The clinic will be conducted by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) along with the Arkansas Rural Health Partnership…


UAMS to Provide Free COVID-19 Drive-Thru Evaluation April 16 in Forrest City

Ben Boulden

LITTLE ROCK — A free community drive-thru evaluation clinic for COVID-19 will be conducted by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Thursday, April 16 at Forrest City Civic Center, 1335 N. Washington Street in Forrest City. You do not have to be a UAMS patient to be…


April 10, 2020

UAMS Takes Drive-Through COVID-19 Evaluation to Texarkana

Ben Boulden

Barbara McDonald, APRN, pauses for a moment between patients during drive-through COVID-19 evaluations April 9 in Texarkana.

UAMS provided drive-through COVID-19 evaluations in Texarkana, Arkansas, on April 9, the second time UAMS has done so beyond its main campus, proving the sequel was as good as the original. Teams of physicians and nurses from the main campus in Little Rock and from UAMS Family Medical Center in Texarkana joined together at Trinity…


April 7, 2020

UAMS to Provide COVID-19 Drive-Thru Evaluation April 9 in Texarkana

Ben Boulden

LITTLE ROCK – A free community drive-thru evaluation clinic for COVID-19 will be conducted by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Thursday, April 9 at Trinity Baptist Church, 3115 Trinity Blvd., Texarkana, Arkansas. You do not have to be a UAMS patient to be seen. This evaluation…


One in 66 Arkansas 8-Year-Olds Has Autism Spectrum Disorder, Says New CDC/UAMS Report

Ben Boulden

Maya Lopez, M.D., is Arkansas Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (AR ADDM) Program at UAMS and an associate professor in the UAMS College of Medicine’s Department of Pediatrics.

LITTLE ROCK — A new report shows the number of 8-year-old Arkansas children identified as having Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is significantly higher than data released two years ago by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). An estimated one in 66 Arkansas 8-year-olds have ASD, according to information collected by the Arkansas Autism…


April 6, 2020

UAMS to Provide COVID-19 Drive-Thru Evaluation April 10 in Helena-West Helena

Ben Boulden

LITTLE ROCK – A free community drive-thru evaluation clinic for COVID-19 will be conducted by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Friday, April 10 at 1804 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive on the Interstate 49 bypass. The clinic is in the old John Deere Building across from…


April 3, 2020

UAMS Provides COVID-19 Screening to Helena, Delta Residents

Ben Boulden

Jennifer Hunt, M.D., left, screens a patient for COVID-19 during a UAMS-led drive-through screening in Helena.

As the van carrying UAMS health care professionals arrived in Helena early April 2, residents of Helena and the surrounding Delta region were already lining up in their vehicles to receive the drive-through COVID-19 evaluation UAMS was about to provide. By 9:45 a.m., the team from the main campus in Little Rock and from UAMS…



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