Regional Campuses


September 20, 2022

UAMS Health Opens Long COVID-19 Clinic in Fayetteville

David Wise

Man tied to COVID cell, pulling it

FAYETTEVILLE — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is offering a new clinic in Fayetteville for patients who still have symptoms of a COVID-19 infection three weeks or more following a positive COVID test. Some people are reporting that they are continuing to experience COVID-19 symptoms weeks or months after their diagnosis. Commonly…


September 8, 2022

Northwest Arkansas Crisis Stabilization Re-Opens Under UAMS Leadership

Yavonda Chase

Kristen McAllister, (second from right) director of the Northwest Arkansas Crisis Stabilization Unit, gives State Reps. Jim Dotson, Robin Lundstrum and Nicole Clowney a tour of the unit's garden area.

Until the Northwest Arkansas Crisis Stabilization Unit opened last month in Fayetteville, too often the choices for those going through a mental-health crisis were limited: jail or the hospital.


September 6, 2022

UAMS Researchers Link Food Insecurity to Job Loss, Illness

David Wise

Research by the UAMS Office of Community Health & Research found that Arkansans were more likely to rely on food pantry services following income loss or the diagnosis of a serious illness.

FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansans were more likely to rely on food pantry services following income loss or the diagnosis of a serious illness, according to a study published recently by researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Office of Community Health & Research.


September 1, 2022

UAMS Receives $350,000 in Grants from Walmart Foundation, Alice L. Walton Foundation to Support Double Your Dollars Food Assistance Program

Andrew Vogler

NWA Farmers' Market Alliance

LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) received grants from the Walmart Foundation, $250,000, and the Alice L. Walton Foundation, $100,000, to support the Northwest Arkansas (NWA) Farmers’ Market Alliance’s Double Your Dollars program, an initiative that provides residents access to affordable, healthy foods at farmers markets. Created in 2012 to…


August 30, 2022

UAMS Collaborates with EAST Students, City of Springdale to Install StoryWalk at Murphy Park

David Wise

UAMS and city of Springdale officials stand near one of the podium displays along the city's new StoryWalk.

FAYETTEVILLE — The University of Arkansas Medical Sciences (UAMS) Office of Community Health & Research worked with Springdale EAST students and the City of Springdale to install a StoryWalk at Murphy Park. A StoryWalk is a literacy-boosting project that separates and enlarges the pages of a children’s book and displays them on a walking path,…


August 26, 2022

Accelerated BSN Students Begin Nursing Journey with White Coat Ceremony

David Wise

UAMS College of Nursing students in the accelerated BSN program recite the Nightingale Pledge

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) nursing students on an accelerated path to their Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degrees participated in a White Coat Ceremony on Aug. 19, at the UAMS Schmieding Center for Senior Health and Education in Springdale.


August 25, 2022

UAMS, AmeriCorps Announces Food Security Initiative in Arkansas

David Wise

Daniel Dunlap, AmeriCorps South Central deputy regional administrator, announces a VISTA initiative with UAMS to fight food insecurity.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – AmeriCorps, the federal agency for national service and volunteerism, announced more than $255,000 in American Rescue Plan grant funding to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences as part of the AmeriCorps VISTA program’s food security initiative over the next three years.


August 17, 2022

UAMS Researchers Find That COVID-19 Pandemic Increased Stress for Women

David Wise

woman wearing surgical mask with arms crossed

FAYETTEVILLE – The COVID-19 pandemic negatively impacted women’s stress levels, according to a study conducted by researchers at the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences (UAMS) Office of Community Health & Research. The study, which was published by Dialogues in Health analyzed various factors that affected women in Arkansas, particularly working women in caregiver roles, and…


August 16, 2022

UAMS Begins Training for Point-of-Care Ultrasound Program

Chris Carmody

Physicians take part in point-of-care ultrasound training at the UAMS Department of Family and Preventive Medicine.

More than two dozen physicians from across the state gathered at the UAMS Department of Family and Preventive Medicine in Little Rock for a training session that served as a first step in a program to expand the use of point-of-care ultrasound.


July 21, 2022

UAMS MASH Program Gives High School Students Glimpse Behind the Scenes

David Wise

High school students learn suture techniques on pig feet at the UAMS MASH summer camp.

During the summer, high school students can go behind the scenes at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) to find out what it really takes to be a health care professional. Since 1988, hundreds of high school students in Arkansas have donned surgical scrubs or lab coats at UAMS Regional Campuses and community…



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