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June 12, 2025

Providers, Family and Friends Play Crucial Role in Vaccine Decisions, UAMS Researchers Find

David Wise

Researchers at the UAMS Institute for Community Health Innovation found that health care providers, along with family and friends, can play a large part in a parent’s decision to vaccinate their children.

Health care providers, along with family and friends, can play a large part in a parent’s decision to vaccinate their children, according to researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Institute for Community Health Innovation.


June 9, 2025

UAMS and University of Arkansas Hope-Texarkana Partner to Offer College Credit to Doula Trainees

David Wise

A doula and a pregnant women practice breathing exercises

LITTLE ROCK — Participants in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Institute for Community Health Innovation’s doula training program are now able to receive college credit, thanks to a continued partnership between UAMS and the University of Arkansas Hope-Texarkana (UAHT). By coupling this program with the state’s passage of the Healthy Moms, Healthy…


June 5, 2025

Latest NWA Health Summit Focuses on ‘Meeting People Where They Are’

David Wise

A speaker addresses the audience at the NWA Health Summit at the Fayetteville Town Center

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Institute for Community Health Innovation brought together health care professionals and thought leaders at the Northwest Arkansas Health Summit on May 21 to strategize ways to meet communities where they are to improve health across Arkansas. The summit was supported by Heartland Whole Health Institute, the Northwest…


June 2, 2025

UAMS Northwest Hosts Hands-On Anesthesiology Workshop for High School Students

David Wise

Group photo of high school students who attended an anesthesia workshop in Northwest Arkansas

Eighteen ninth-grade students from five different Northwest Arkansas school districts — Bentonville, Farmington, Fayetteville, Siloam Springs and Springdale — gathered Saturday, May 14, at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Northwest Regional Campus for an immersive educational experience. Designed to introduce students to the dynamic field of anesthesiology through a full day of…


May 13, 2025

Northwest Arkansas Health Summit Returns to Fayetteville May 21

David Wise

Logo that says "NWA Health Summit" and "Meeting People Where They Are".

FAYETTEVILLE — The 2025 Northwest Arkansas Health Summit, hosted by the UAMS Institute for Community Health Innovation with support from Heartland Whole Health Institute, the NWA Council and other community partners, will bring health and community leaders together on Wednesday, May 21, to discuss barriers to meeting underserved communities in Arkansas. The theme of this…


April 24, 2025

Exciting Changes to Arkansas Medicaid: What You Need to Know

David Wise

Graphic with the word "Medicaid"

  By Sheldon Riklon, M.D. In recent months, Arkansas Medicaid has undergone significant updates aimed at improving health care access for mothers, infants and communities across the state. Let’s break down these important changes and how they impact Arkansans. The Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies Act In February, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed the Healthy Moms,…


April 17, 2025

UAMS Mobile Health Units Now Feature Internet Access

David Wise

Members of the UAMS Institute for Community Health Innovation with computer laptops outside the mobile unit.

LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Institute for Community Health Innovation is expanding health care access with Arkansas’ first-ever statewide mobile health connectivity project, which equips each mobile unit with wireless network access using SD-WAN technology to enhance reliability, security and performance in remote rural areas. With all four mobile…


April 16, 2025

UAMS, Washington Regional Approved for Residency Programs in Neurology, Emergency Medicine in Northwest Arkansas

David Wise

Jay Hinkle, M.D., as program director, and Margaret Tremwel, M.D., Ph.D., as associate program director

FAYETTEVILLE — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and Washington Regional Medical Center have received initial accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) to establish a neurology residency program and an emergency medicine residency program in Northwest Arkansas through their joint graduate medical education program. These are the first non-primary…


April 11, 2025

UAMS and Partners Building CHW Workforce Amid Passage of the Community Health Worker Act

David Wise

A community health worker speaks with a member of the public

LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Institute for Community Health Innovation and its partners are continuing to build the state’s community health worker workforce following Gov. Sarah Sanders’ signing of House Bill 1258 on April 3, establishing the Community Health Worker Act. The act formally establishes the role of a…


April 2, 2025

UAMS Offers Diabetes Education to Health Care Providers in the Marshall Islands

News Staff

A group of Marshallese health care workers pose with their certificates from a The institute launched its Family-Model Diabetes-Self-Management Education & Support (FDSMES) education program.

With support from the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) Ministry of Health & Human Services, members of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) Northwest Regional Campus and the Institute for Community Health Innovation visited the Marshall Islands this month to provide training to community health workers (CHWs) and doctors on diabetes curriculum and pharmaceutical advancements.



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