Arkansas Philanthropists Give UAMS Northwest $1.5 Million

A trio of Arkansas philanthropists today gave a total of $1.5 million towards development of the northwest Arkansas campus of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).

Donations of $500,000 each were announced from Don Tyson and the Tyson Family Foundation, the Willard and Pat Walker Charitable Foundation and Johnelle Hunt during a news conference at the Embassy Suites hotel in Rogers, site of a National Philanthropy Day luncheon.

The funds are going toward continued renovations and work to prepare the former Washington Regional Medical Center to house the campus. The work also will make room for the UAMS Area Health Education Center (AHEC) Northwest, which provides health education and medical care, to relocate there in 2009.

Located in Fayetteville, the campus will open for the fall 2009 semester and is intended to address growing health care work force shortages by allowing UAMS to increase enrollment. The campus will include students in the UAMS colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy and Health Related Professions.
 
“We are pleased with this support from Johnelle Hunt, the Tysons and the Walker Foundation, showing their commitment to the future of health care for all of Arkansas,” UAMS Chancellor I. Dodd Wilson, M.D. “It is fitting this gift comes on National Philanthropy Day, which recognizes those who give so selflessly to help others – in this case leaving an enduring impression on the quality of health care in the state.”

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UAMS Leads Statewide Emergency Stroke Response Team

A statewide program led by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) expects to raise Arkansas’ last-place ranking in stroke-related deaths.

The program uses a high-tech, video communications system to help provide immediate, life-saving treatments to stroke victims 24 hours a day. The program was established with a one-year, $6.1 million Arkansas Department of Human Services Medicaid contract.

Called Arkansas SAVES (Stroke Assistance Through Virtual Emergency Support), the program began Nov. 1 as a partnership between the UAMS Center for Distance Health, the state Health Department, Booneville Community Hospital, Johnson Regional Medical Center and Mena Regional Health System. Sparks Regional Health System in Fort Smith will serve as a hub in the Telestroke system.

Curtis Lowery, M.D., director of the UAMS Center for Distance Health, expects the program will be expanded in 2009 to another six hospitals in southern and north central Arkansas.

“This is an important part of UAMS’ mission – reaching out to rural areas of the state and helping local physicians identify patients with stroke and improve the patients’ outcomes,” said Salah Keyrouz, M.D., the Arkansas SAVES director and assistant professor of neurology at UAMS.

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