Ashley County Medical Center
Ashley County Medical Center (ACMC) has served Ashley County for over 100 years as a community-owned, locally governed, non-profit health care system located in south Arkansas, serving the southeastern region of Arkansas and the northeastern region of Louisiana. A new facility was constructed in 1998, a 25-bed critical access hospital uncommonly equipped for a community of this size. The hospital hosts a state-of-the-art radiology suite, including a 640 slice CT scanner, MRI utilizing AI and scanning in half the time of other imaging processors, and 3D digital Mammography unit. The hospital has partnerships throughout the state, including the Arkansas SAVES Stroke program with UAMS, Arkansas Children’s Hospital Nursery Alliance, and was the first in the state to partner with UAMS in the EmPOWERed Birthplace training.
ACMC offers various specialty services such as general surgery, orthopedics, pediatrics, wound care, Hem/Onc, pulmonology, and cardiology in addition to the core services of family medicine.
As a building block of the local community, ACMC chairs the Go Red movement for Ashley County, participates in the local cancer support group Hope for Home, serves the local schools through participation in wellness committees and sports medicine on the sidelines, and serves on many of the local boards and civic organizations. It is the second largest employer in Ashley County and serves the community in patient care and leadership around the community.
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
UAMS Medical Center
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is the state’s only health sciences university, with colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Health Professions and Public Health; a graduate school; a hospital; a main campus in Little Rock; a Northwest Arkansas regional campus in Fayetteville; a statewide network of regional campuses; and seven institutes: the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute, Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, Psychiatric Research Institute, Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging, Translational Research Institute and Institute for Digital Health & Innovation.
UAMS includes UAMS Health, a statewide health system that encompasses all of UAMS’ clinical enterprise. UAMS is the only adult Level 1 trauma center in the state. UAMS has 3,200+ students, nearly 900 medical residents and fellows, and five dental residents. It is the state’s largest public employer with more than 12,000 employees, including 1,200 physicians who provide care to patients at UAMS, its regional campuses, Arkansas Children’s, the John L. McClellan Memorial Veterans Hospital, and Baptist Health.
The mission of UAMS is to improve the health, health care and well-being of Arkansans and of others in the region, nation and the world by:
- Educating current and future health professionals and the public;
- Providing high-quality, innovative, patient- and family-centered health care and also providing specialty expertise not routinely available in community settings; and
- Advancing knowledge in areas of human health and disease and translating and accelerating discoveries into health improvements.
Arkansas Children’s Hospital
Arkansas Children’s Hospital in Little Rock
Arkansas Children’s Hospital (ACH) is the premier children’s hospital in the state of Arkansas with over 500 physicians and 200 residents. ACH is a Level 1 Trauma Center located in Little Rock and serves children from birth to 21. The hospital includes 336 beds and offers three intensive care units. The campus spans 36 city blocks and has a floor space of over 2,000,000 square feet.