mobile health unit

January 7, 2025

UAMS Plans More Services for Carroll County

David Wise

Denton Thompson, a nurse project manager with the UAMS Institute for Community Health Innovation speaks at the Carroll County Hometown Health Coalition’s Dec. 4, 2024, meeting.

UAMS Plans More Services for Carroll County The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Institute for Community Health Innovation joined the Carroll County Hometown Health Coalition’s Dec. 4 meeting to discuss services the institute is looking to provide across the county in 2025. The institute is deploying mobile health units — large vehicles equipped…

October 9, 2024

UAMS Deploys Mobile Health Unit to South Arkansas

David Wise

Photo of a UAMS mobile health unit

FAYETTEVILLE — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) deployed a mobile health unit in south Arkansas to provide better access to health care in Ashley, Columbia, Ouachita and Union counties.

July 18, 2024

UAMS to Provide Contraceptive Services, Education in 14 Rural Arkansas Counties

David Wise

A health care worker points to a pill in a contraceptive box while speaking with a patient.

FAYETTEVILLE — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) will provide contraceptive services and reproductive health education to women living in rural Arkansas counties in an effort to prevent unintended pregnancies and to improve access to women’s health care in Arkansas. Through a private philanthropic grant awarded to the UAMS Institute for Community Health…