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December 5, 2024

Healthgrades Awards UAMS Five Stars for Cardiac, Critical Care

Linda Satter

Image of UAMS with the images of the two awards superimposed over the image.

LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has received five-star ratings for its treatment of heart failure and sepsis from Healthgrades, the leading resource used by consumers to find a health care provider. The 2025 ratings for clinical excellence are based on data collected from about 4,500 hospitals nationwide on all…


December 3, 2024

Rampy Foundation Relays $65,000 Donation to UAMS Department of Neurology for MS Research

Andrew Vogler

Rampy

LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Department of Neurology in the College of Medicine received $65,000 for multiple sclerosis research from the Rampy MS Research Foundation during a ceremony today. This is the third year the Rampy MS Research Foundation has conducted the run. Jo and Scott Rampy, along with…


November 25, 2024

REACH Delta Event Shows Teens the Pathway to Health Careers

Chris Carmody

Representatives from the UAMS College of Nursing guide students through a demonstration of how to intubate patients.

Students from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) sought to offer encouragement and inspiration to the more than 200 high school teens who attended an outreach event earlier this month at the Pine Bluff Armory in White Hall. Meena Chatrathi, a third-year student in the UAMS College of Medicine, gave an overview of…


November 22, 2024

Back on Top: Gary Evans Climbing Mountains After Lung Cancer

Marty Trieschmann

Gary Evans is back outdoors doing what he loves after successfully being treated for lung cancer at the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute.

The view from the 1,011-foot summit of Pinnacle Mountain is spectacular, and Gary Evans does his best to get there as often as he can. But after a lung cancer diagnosis in January 2023, Evans wasn’t sure he would get to the top of his favorite mountain ever again.


November 21, 2024

UAMS Medical Center Achieves Magnet® Recognition for Clinical Care and Nursing Excellence

News Staff

Employees celebrate the announcement of UAMS’ designation as a Magnet® hospital from the American Nurses Credentialing Center.

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Medical Center was awarded the highest international recognition for excellence in nursing from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), achieving designation as a Magnet® hospital.


November 20, 2024

Arkansas Attorney General Provides $600,000 Grant to Support Women’s Mental Health Fellowship

Tim Taylor

Jessica Coker, M.D., serves as the medical director of the Psychiatric Research Unit’s inpatient units.

LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences has received a $600,000 grant from Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin to support a women’s mental health fellowship in an effort to address the impact of the opioid epidemic on women and to help reduce the state’s maternal mortality rate.


November 19, 2024

UAMS Invests Ashley Acheson, Ph.D., in Wilbur D. Mills Distinguished Chair in Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Prevention

Andrew Vogler

Ashley Acheson

LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine invested Ashley Acheson, Ph.D., professor and vice chair for research for the UAMS Department of Psychiatry, in the Wilbur D. Mills Distinguished Chair in Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Prevention during a Nov. 12 ceremony. “This chair is especially meaningful to me…


November 18, 2024

UAMS Recognizes Veterans at Multiple Events

Ben Boulden

David Williams, left, and Reginald Williams, center, share a laugh with one of the veterans at St. Francis House who was receiving a gift bag from UAMS.

In the days leading up to Veterans Day, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) thanked the hundreds of veterans of the U.S. military among its employees, students and patients with cards, meals, care packages and recognition events. The UAMS Veterans Subcommittee in the Division of People and Culture organized the efforts and kicked…


November 15, 2024

Prescription for Inspiration: Students Check Out Health Care Careers

Philip Allison

A medical provider demonstrates a sonogram machine.

When Shane Lyerly, M.D., decided he wanted to pursue a career in health care, he admittedly had more questions than answers. What classes should he take? Would it help to shadow a doctor for a day? How should he prepare for medical school interviews?  Thankfully, he had help from both an academic advisor at Arkansas…


November 12, 2024

UAMS Receives $11 Million for Gastroenterology Clinic, Endoscopy Center, Upgrades to Monroe Building

Linda Satter

The Freeway Medical Tower

LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has received two federal grants totaling $11 million to create a Gastroenterology Clinic and endoscopy center in the nearby Freeway Medical Tower and upgrade the Monroe Building on its Little Rock campus. “We are very grateful for these construction grants from the U.S. Department…



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