UAMS Celebrates 'Double Topping Out' of Hospital, PRI

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) supporters and employees were all smiles, literally beaming as two gleaming white steel beams were raised to mark the high points of construction of a major hospital expansion and adjacent Psychiatric Research Institute.

The steel beams, signed by employees and supporters, were put in place on the 10-floor, 540,000-square-foot expansion of UAMS Medical Center and the adjacent five-floor, 100,000-square-foot Psychiatric Research Institute (PRI) during a double "topping out" ceremony. Both the hospital expansion and PRI are expected to be completed in late 2008 with occupancy in January 2009.

"We're constructing two marvelous structures and I'm sure that in the future we'll see this as another point that will be considered a milestone in the evolution of UAMS and its capacity to serve the needs of the state of Arkansas," said Richard Pierson, Vice Chancellor for Clinical Programs and executive director of UAMS Medical Center.

Pierson traced the history of the hospital stretching back to its original incarnation, taking over the Little Rock City Hospital downtown in 1939, the move to the Markham Street campus in the 1950s and the critical addition of more patient beds in the Ward Tower that was built in the 1990s. "This will be a hospital of tomorrow, different from anything we've known before," Pierson said about the expansion that will allow UAMS to move most patient care operations from the original hospital building, opened in 1956.

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Workers guide the ceremonial steel beam into place on the top of the hospital expansion.

Lyons' $2.5 Million Gift to Create UAMS Longevity Clinic

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has received a gift of $2.5 million from Frank and Jane Lyon to its Donald W. Reynolds Department of Geriatrics. The donation will be used to create the Thomas and Lyon Longevity Clinic in the UAMS Reynolds Institute on Aging.

Longtime UAMS supporters, the Lyons, of Little Rock, made the gift and named the clinic in memory of their parents, who received care at the Institute on Aging. Jane Lyon also is a member of the Reynolds Institute on Aging Advisory Board.
 
The endowment established by the gift will support activities including a new frailty and physical disabilities clinic, a caregiver support program and a special behavioral problems clinic. It also will provide support for ReCenter, a health promotion and disease prevention program.

"My father, who died recently at the age of 93, was under the expert care of geriatricians at the Reynolds Institute," Jane Lyon said. "I am forever grateful that this wellness-based care was available for him, and that it also will be available for each of us. This is a magnificent institution, and I am so happy that we are able to support its programs."

"My parents also benefited from programs at the Reynolds Institute," Frank Lyon said.  "It truly makes a difference to have this specialized care available for older adults.  I am pleased that our names will be associated with these innovative programs that make such a difference in the lives of Arkansans."

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