December 15, 2023
Partners in Care: Providing the Comforts of Home
The challenges that come with receiving extended medical care can be overwhelming. There are many factors that must be addressed before patients are prepared to receive care. This requires creating a healthy environment where a patient need not worry about how they will get to the hospital, where their meals will come from and, maybe…
June 29, 2023
Fireworks
These programs were first broadcast the week of July 3, 2023.
January 12, 2023
UAMS Researchers Find that Continual Rise in Spending on Home Health Care Could Be Problematic for Arkansans
LITTLE ROCK — A study led by a recent University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health graduate, revealed that a rise in home health care spending could become an issue for Medicare nationally and in Arkansas. Robert Schuldt, Ph.D., a spring 2022 graduate of the college’s Health…
October 31, 2022
UAMS Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health Doctoral Student Uses Hometown Inspiration to Make Academic Achievement
Shun Ingram — a doctoral student in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health, Health Promotion and Prevention Research Program — has earned the prestigious Southern Region Educational Board-State Doctoral Scholars Program Award. “It’s a highly competitive scholarship,” he said. “It relieves some of the financial burden of…
October 11, 2022
UAMS Announces a Partnership with Amedisys and Contessa, Creating a Comprehensive Care at Home Suite of Services
LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), Amedisys (NASDAQ: AMED), a leading health care at home company, and Contessa, an Amedisys company and the leading comprehensive care at home provider, announced a partnership bringing a new care at home option to Central Arkansas. The joint venture offers patients a full spectrum of medical care in the comfort and convenience of their own homes.
May 6, 2022
First LVAD Recipient at UAMS Ready to Head Home, Get Back to Fishing
LITTLE ROCK — The first patient to receive a Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) through the new Heart Restoration Program at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is being discharged today after a successful procedure Feb. 28.
Writing Children’s Book Helps UAMS Employee Work Through Grief
Marie Walker laughed, smiled and talked while visiting with her sister Helen. Located on the other side of the room was Walker’s daughter, and the sisters heard her holding a conversation. However, they knew there was nobody else with her. They also knew the young girl didn’t have an electronic device that would allow her…
UAMS Launches Program to Provide At-home COVID-19 Test Kits to Communities in Need
FAYETTEVILLE — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Office of Community Health & Research is working with community organizations throughout Northwest Arkansas to distribute at-home COVID-19 test kits to populations in need. Through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) initiative, 1,400 COVID-19 test kits are being distributed to…
May 5, 2022
Art for Parkinson’s Workshop Heads to El Dorado on May 17
LITTLE ROCK — A free art therapy workshop for people with Parkinson’s disease will be offered from 9:30 a.m. to noon May 17 at the South Arkansas Arts Center at 110 E. Fifth St. in El Dorado. It will be the first Art for Parkinson’s workshop held outside Little Rock and the third in a…
April 20, 2022
Art for Parkinson’s Workshops Provide Fun, Education, Social Interaction
|As the music began, about 15 people sitting around large round tables picked up watercolor pencils and let the symphonic sounds guide their hands as they applied colorful streaks and patterns across plain white poster board. Some made bold, jagged marks while others sculpted gentle curves. Some used dark colors; others, pastels or brights. They…
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