Don Heard
May 16, 2017
UAMS Celebrates New Family Medical Center Building at UAMS West Regional Campus in Fort Smith
May 16, 2017 |The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) West Regional Campus today celebrated the move of its Family Medical Center to a new, more spacious and up-to-date facility at the corner of South 12th and E streets in Fort Smith. The Family Medical Center recently began serving patients after relocating from its…
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…
June 17, 2016
Friends of UAMS – Fort Smith Kicks Off
June 17, 2016 | A lively crowd of close to 100 business and community leaders from around western Arkansas filled the home of Drs. Terry and David Hunton on June 9 to kick off the inaugural Friends of UAMS – Fort Smith. David Hunton is chief medical officer for Mercy Hospital Fort Smith and a…
March 3, 2016
UAMS West Breaks Ground On $10.5 Million Building in Fort Smith
March 3, 2016 | More than a dozen golden shovels turned dirt today marking the start of work on a $10.5 million UAMS Family Medical Center at the corner of South 12th and South E streets in Fort Smith. State legislators, local dignitaries, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Chancellor Dan Rahn, M.D., and UAMS…
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.
July 8, 2014
UAMS Receives $900,000 in Federal Funds for Training More Primary Care Physicians
LITTLE ROCK –The training program for new physicians at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has received $900,000 in federal funds, allowing it to continue to increase the number of resident physicians at its regional center in Fort Smith.
July 8, 2013
Fort Smith Family Medical Center Earns Patient-Centered Recognition
July 8, 2013 | For nearly three years, physicians, nurses and staff at the Fort Smith Family Medical Center at UAMS West have worked hard to move the primary care clinic toward the new patient-centered medical home model. Recently, their efforts were rewarded.
June 25, 2013
Fort Smith Family Medical Center Earns Highest Patient-Centered Status
<p class=”content”>LITTLE ROCK — The Fort Smith Family Medical Center at UAMS West has earned national recognition as a Level III patient-centered medical home, where health professionals work as a team to address patients’ immediate and long-term medical needs.</p>