Health Care

Forbes has released another of its ubiquitous ranking lists, this time ranking the best employers by state after surveying 70,000 Americans who worked at businesses with at least 500 employees. Beyond basic considerations, such as fair pay, safe working conditions,…

Forward Arkansas, a nonprofit organization in Little Rock that works with school districts, educational partners and state leaders to improve educational outcomes for Arkansas students, has added three new board members: Mary Elizabeth Eldridge, Deborah Frazier and Anna Strong –…

Quantum Leaps and Bounds Executive Q&A with Dr. Ali Krisht, director of CHI St. Vincent’s Arkansas Neuroscience Center   Dr. Ali Krisht is the director and lead neurosurgeon at CHI St. Vincent’s Arkansas Neuroscience Institute. He is the 2019 recipient…

Executive Q&A: Finding a Solution Chair of the Department of Biology, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Dr. Lei Li   UA Little Rock has made some significant developments in clinical biology that will greatly impact metropolitan Little Rock and…

Omar Atiq, MD, FACP, is a gentle giant of Arkansas’s health care industry. His calm demeanor and unhurried, deliberate way of speaking belie his imposing list of titles and achievements. Atiq is a professor of medicine at the UAMS Winthrop…

Behavioral health was the biggest health care crisis Americans faced going into the pandemic, and it will easily be the biggest one faced coming out of it, according to Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield President and CEO Curtis Barnett.…

It’s hard to imagine an industry that has been as singularly transformed by the events of the past two and a half years than medicine. From debates over efficacies and safety of fast-tracked vaccines, to the physical and mental toll…

Health care in Arkansas has been ever evolving with ongoing and soon to come developments in hospitals statewide. There is a lot to look forward to in the coming years as far as accessible and innovative patient care, especially with…

Publisher’s Letter: Turn and Face the Strain   They say the only sure thing in this life is change. While some changes are welcome, such as an unexpected bonus or a marriage proposal (wink, wink), others can come out of…

William C. “Bill” Culp, M.D., has made a $500,000 commitment to establish the Dr. William Culp Endowed Professorship in Interventional Radiology in the UAMS College of Medicine’s Department of Radiology. Culp is a retired professor of radiology, surgery and neurology,…