regional centers
September 28, 2017
UAMS Regional Campuses Awarded $4.2 Million for Professional Education, Faculty Development, Recruitment
Sept. 28, 2017 | University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Regional Campuses has been awarded a five-year grant of $4.2 million for professional education, faculty development and recruitment. The federal Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Bureau of Health Workforce, Health Careers Pipeline Branch awarded the grant. The eight Regional Campuses are UAMS Northeast…
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…
March 7, 2016
UAMS Center for Health Literacy Awarded $2.9 Million by National Institutes of Health
LITTLE ROCK — University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Center for Health Literacy has received a four-year grant of $2.9 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to test the effectiveness of a diabetes education and health literacy program in patient-centered medical homes at UAMS regional centers across Arkansas. A patient-centered medical home…
October 23, 2015
UAMS Awarded Nearly $1 Million for Medicaid Savings
Oct. 23, 2015 | UAMS today demonstrated it is leading the state in improving patient care while also saving money as Chancellor Dan Rahn, M.D., accepted $927,642 from Medicaid for its part in helping Arkansas avoid $34 million in Medicaid costs in 2014. UAMS received the largest amount of the $5.3 million that Medicaid and…
July 30, 2015
Tim Hill Named UAMS Vice Chancellor for Regional Programs
July 30, 2015 | Tim Hill has been named University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) vice chancellor for Regional Programs effective Aug. 1.
Tim Hill Named UAMS Vice Chancellor for Regional Programs
LITTLE ROCK – Tim Hill has been named University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) vice chancellor for Regional Programs effective Aug. 1. Hill, of Maumelle, succeeds Mark Mengel, M.D., who retired in May. Hill has served in the position in an interim appointment since then. Regional Programs, originally called the Area Health Education Centers…
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.
June 25, 2014
Pine Bluff Family Medical Center at UAMS South Central Earns Highest Patient-Centered Status
LITTLE ROCK — The Pine Bluff Family Medical Center at UAMS South Central 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.
Jonesboro Family Medical Center at UAMS Northeast Earns Highest Patient-Centered Status
LITTLE ROCK — The Jonesboro Family Medical Center at UAMS Northeast 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.