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News from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
UAMS
Opens New Health Care Education Facility in Harrison
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APRIL 22, 2003
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Sciences joined health care and education
leaders in Harrison, Arkansas, to formally
open a new center for health care
education in Boone County.
The new
facility is a satellite of the UAMS Area
Health Education Center-Northwest (AHEC-NW)
and the Schmieding Center for Senior
Health and Education.
Thanks to
the new program, health care professionals
will be able to obtain continuing
education without leaving the county. Dr.
Rick Hinterthuer is director of the AHEC-NW
program at Harrison. Rick Guyton, Ph.D.,
is director of the AHEC-NW. Larry Wright,
M.D., is director of the Schmieding Center
for Senior Health and Education. Deanne
Couey, M.S.N., R.N.,
is director of senior health
education at Harrision.
The program
is a partnership of UAMS, North Arkansas
College, North Arkansas Regional Medical
Center, the Schmieding Center for Senior
Health and Education, Boone County Health
Unit, Boone County Hometown Health
Improvement Coalition, Area Agency on
Aging of Northwest Arkansas, Mountain
Crest Rehabilitation Center, Community
First Bank of Harrison, and First Federal
Bank of Harrison. It will provide
comprehensive community health education
for consumers and health care
professionals.
"This
program comes from the people of Harrison.
They wanted this service and a greater
connection to UAMS," Dr. Guyton of
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Dr. Rick
Hinterthuer (left, with scissors) and Dr. Jeff
Olson of North Arkansas College (right) cut the
ribbon at the new AHEC-NW center in Harrison,
Arkansas. (Bill Fortson) Click on photo for
enlarged view.
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The seven regional UAMS AHECs are essential providers of clinical and
educational services around the state. The Donald W. Reynolds Center on Aging
at UAMS collaborates with AHECs to provide specialized training in geriatric
care and education for senior citizens. The outreach sites of the Schmieding
Center for Senior Health and Education in northwest Arkansas receive funds from
Arkansas' share of the nationwide tobacco settlement. Harrison is the first of
three planned outreach sites.
The following UAMS officials participated in the
ribbon-cutting: Chancellor I. Dodd Wilson, M.D.; Vice Chancellor Charles O.
Cranford, D.D.S., M.P.A.; Rick Guyton, Ph.D., director, AHEC-NW; and Claudia
Beverly, Ph.D., R.N., vice chair, Donald W. Reynolds Department of Geriatrics,
UAMS College of Medicine. Dr. Jeff Olson of North Arkansas College also
participated.
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