UAMS Regional Programs
November 2, 2021
UAMS Family Wellness Program Graduates First Fatherhood FIRE Participant
The UAMS Community Health and Research (UAMS CHR) Family Wellness program recently graduated its first participant in the Fatherhood FIRE education course. Through Fatherhood FIRE (which stands for Family Focused, Interconnected, Resilient, Essential), Family Wellness staff work with fathers, couples and co-parents to ensure that every child is raised in a safe and nurturing environment…
August 31, 2021
UAMS Wins AAMC Award for Outstanding Community Engagement
FAYETTEVILLE – The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) recently bestowed its top honor for community engagement to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). The Spencer Foreman Award for Outstanding Community Engagement is presented annually to an AAMC-member medical school or teaching hospital with a long-standing, major institutional commitment to partnering with the…
July 6, 2018
First-Year Residents from UAMS Regional Campuses Gather
July 6, 2018 | While health care in recent years has pursued the triple aim of patient satisfaction and positive health outcomes while reducing the costs, Mark Jansen, M.D., told first-year resident physicians June 21 there should be a fourth target — provider satisfaction. “If we don’t have healthy, happy providers, you are not going…
January 22, 2018
UAMS Northwest Regional Campus Accepting Applications for Spring and Summer Health Careers Program
Jan. 22, 2018 | The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Northwest Regional Campus is accepting applications from students who will be entering eighth, ninth or 10th grades and are interested in exploring careers in health care for its one-week intensive Community Health Applied in Medical Public Service (CHAMPS) programs. UAMS Northwest Regional Campus…
March 13, 2017
UAMS Northwest Regional Campus Accepting Applications for CHAMPS Summer Health Careers Program
FAYETTEVILLE — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Northwest Regional Campus is now accepting applications from students who will be entering the eighth-10th grades and are interested in exploring careers in health care for its one-week, Community Health Applied in Medical Public Service (CHAMPS) programs. The CHAMPS program at the UAMS Northwest Regional…
November 30, 2016
New UAMS West Building Combines Local Ideas, Builders
Nov. 30, 2016 | Construction crews, most of them from western Arkansas, are wielding tools to take the ideas gathered from local patients, health care providers and design experts and shape them into the new UAMS West Regional Campus clinic building in Fort Smith they imagined. By spring, those physicians, nurses, staff members and area patients…
May 25, 2016
USDA Gives $1.6 Million to Improve Health in Arkansas Delta
May 25, 2016 | The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded $1.6 million to two institutions to improve health in the Arkansas Delta through providing on-site simulation training for rural providers. At a news conference today at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), Vernita Dore, USDA deputy under secretary of Rural Development, announced the…
April 27, 2015
Lawmakers Hail UAMS West as Best Regional Center
April 27, 2015 | State Rep. Justin Boyd surprised UAMS West director Don Heard, Ed.D., and staff April 21 with a surprise legislative citation congratulating them on being named Best Regional Center by the UAMS Regional Programs office, the fourth time in six years it has earned the award.