Arkansas Children’s Hospital

This private, not-for-profit facility is licensed for 280 beds including 55 neonatal beds and provides health care to children from birth to age 21.  Special areas of care include a 24-hour pediatric emergency department and ambulatory care center, as well as the state’s only pediatric oncology and heart transplant programs.  ACH also houses Arkansas’ only dedicated burn center, which serves adults as well as children. 

The hospital’s transport system includes two helicopters, a fixed-wing aircraft and three vans.  In cooperation with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Department of Pediatrics, ACH offers more than 70 specialty outpatient clinics through its campus at 800 Marshall St. in Little Rock.  ACH also operates a specialty clinic and a general pediatric clinic in west Little Rock.


Arkansas Heart Hospital 

Arkansas Heart Hospital is the state’s first and only specialty hospital dedicated solely to the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease.  Heart disease is still the number one killer of Americans.  Arkansas Heart Hospital began its fight against heart disease on March 3, 1997.  Because it specializes in the nation’s number one killer, patients receive the benefits of advanced technology while benefiting from personalized services focused on their individual needs.  The comfort of patients, their families and friends, along with their medical needs, are the most important objectives.  This is the concept of patient-focused care.  Arkansas Heart Hospital continues to concentrate on providing the best patient care, creating more advanced treatment options and achieving better outcomes. 

Arkansas Heart Hospital is an 84-bed specialty heart hospital.  Each patient room is private.  It has six Cath Labs, three Operating Suites, and a full-service Emergency Room open 24 hours a day, seven days of week.  Services offered are many and include: cardiac catheterization, angioplasty, stents, peripheral vascular interventional procedures, renal angiography, peripheral angiography, thrombolytic therapy, coronary bypass surgery, cardiac valve surgery, electrophysiology studies, pacemakers and AICDs, CVMRI and CT Scans.  Arkansas Heart Hospital is located at 1701 South Shackleford Road, Little Rock.

Arkansas State Hospital Little Rock

Part of a network of mental health services in Arkansas and the Arkansas Division of Behavioral Health Services, this 202-bed facility at 4313 West Markham Street in Little Rock offers acute psychiatric care for adults and adolescents.

Baptist Health Medical Center Little Rock

With 791 beds, Baptist Health Medical Center is the largest tertiary-care hospital in Arkansas.  The private, not-for-profit facility is operated by Baptist Health and is at 9601 Interstate 630, Exit 7, in Little Rock. 

Baptist Health Medical Center-Little Rock has become well known for work in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases, through partnering with its primary care physicians and general surgeons, as well as many physician specialists trained in cardiovascular disease, orthopedic services, women’s health services, oncology services and ophthalmology services.  Helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft make up the emergency transport services for Baptist Health Medical Center-Little Rock. 

The hospital also is known for its highly successful organ transplant program.  The state’s first heart transplant was performed there in 1989.  The hospital recently completed its 116th heart transplant and 585th kidney transplant. 

The Baptist Health Management Center provides programs and services for the community for prevention and management of disease through the hospital.  Programs like the Cardiac Rehabilitation Program, the Nicotine Dependence Program, the Outpatient Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program and the Diabetes Health Management Program have benefited many Arkansans.  Other unique services offered by the Baptist Health Management Center include the Heart Disease Reversal Program (CRI Program), a Diabetes Exercise Program and a Weight Management Program. 

Facilities include a Magnetic Resonance Imaging Center; Neonatal Intensive Care Unit; the Baptist Health Eye Center; the Hickingbotham Outpatient Center, which houses the Baptist Health Breast Center; the Baptist Health Heart Center, allowing for a complete heart center surrounded by a full-service hospital; and a unit of Central Arkansas Radiation Therapy Institute.  Broad-based services include Baptist Health HealthLine, a free physician referral service and health information service, and Baptist Health Women’s Center. 

For more information on any Baptist Health facility, physician referrals or health information, visit the hospital’s Web site at www.baptist-health.com.

Baptist Health Medical Center North Little Rock

Baptist Health Medical Center-North Little Rock is a not-for-profit, acute-care hospital licensed for 175 beds, including a 30-bed inpatient rehabilitation unit.  Baptist Health Medical Center-North Little Rock offers services usually found only in larger, metropolitan facilities.  Comprehensive diagnostic, surgical, outpatient, laser, pain management, critical care and emergency services are available at the medical center. 

This new, state-of-the-art facility recently relocated to 3333 Springhill Drive in North Little Rock, just off the intersection of Interstate 40 and U.S. Highway 67/167.  It was designed with a focus on patient convenience, comfort, ease of use and total healing.  For more information, visit the Web site at www.baptist-health.com. 

Baptist Health Rehabilitation Institute – Little Rock

Operated by Baptist Health, this 120-bed private, not-for-profit rehabilitation hospital is the largest of its kind in the state.  The institute offers a complete, comprehensive rehabilitation facility with the most modern inpatient and outpatient technology and treatments available. 

Specialized treatment programs are available for stroke, head/brain injury, spinal cord injury, cancer, alcohol and substance abuse, neuromuscular diseases (Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis), orthopedic injuries and joint replacement, amputation, Guillian-Barre Syndrome, generalized weakness, adolescent psychiatry and geriatric psychiatry.

Baptist Health Rehabilitation Institute-Little Rock is at the Baptist Health Medical Center-Little Rock campus, 9601 Interstate 630.  For more complete information on the rehabilitation hospital, visit the Web site at www.baptist-health.com.

BHC Pinnacle Pointe Hospital

BHC Pinnacle Pointe Hospital, located at 11501 Financial Centre Parkway in Little Rock, has been providing quality psychiatric and chemical dependency services since 1991.  Pinnacle Pointe Hospital is the largest inpatient behavioral health care provider in the state. 

Founded on the mission to consistently deliver superior patient care and customer service for the benefit of patients and their families, Pinnacle Pointe provides an innovative and expanding continuum of care and services to those in need.  As a service to the community, Pinnacle Pointe Hospital offers a free and confidential assessment 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The Bridgeway Hospital

This 70-bed private psychiatric treatment facility is on 20 acres at 21 Bridgeway Road in North Little Rock.  The Bridgeway offers a full range of psychiatric and substance abuse programs for adults, children and adolescents.  The hospital provides a campus-like setting with plenty of recreational activities.

CARTI

CARTI is a statewide network of freestanding, nonprofit radiation therapy centers.  CARTI currently has locations in Little Rock on the campuses of St. Vincent Infirmary Medical Center, Baptist Medical Center and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.  Dedicated to offering state-of-the-art radiation therapy and compassionate patient care, CARTI offers a full slate of educational and awareness programs aimed at treating the whole patient.  CARTI also offers some free cancer screenings, as well as a wide variety of community outreach programs for both cancer patients and their families.  In addition to the three Little Rock CARTI centers, other CARTI facilities are located in Conway, Mountain Home, North Little Rock and Searcy.

The CARTI/UAMS Radiation Therapy Program was established in 1979 to educate students with the latest information and research.  Today, in cooperation with UAMS, CARTI students have the opportunity to earn a Bachelor of Science degree in radiation therapy.  CARTI graduates have a 98 percent first-time pass rate on the national radiation therapy boards. 

Conway Regional Health System

Conway Regional Health System, which includes a medical center, six health clinics, a health and fitness center, a home health agency, a laundry service and therapy clinics, employs more than 1,000 people from the community.

The health system’s anchor facility, Conway Regional Medical Center, is a 150-bed, nonprofit, acute care hospital serving the five-county area of Faulkner, Conway, Perry, Van Buren and Cleburne counties. 

The 57,000 square foot women’s center, which opened in 2001, provides services for women of all ages including state-of-the art labor, delivery, recovery and postpartum (LDRP) rooms for expectant mothers, as well as breast and bone health programs.

The cardiac program includes such diagnostic and surgical capabilities as angioplasty, bypass, stent and open-heart surgery and is supported by a cardiovascular intensive care unit.  The emergency room treats more than 30,000 emergency room patient visits per year.  The health system’s strong commitment to wellness is demonstrated through the operation of the largest hospital-based fitness center in Arkansas with more than 4,500 members.

The medical staff is comprised of more than 100 physicians representing such specialties as primary care; internal medicine; obstetrics/gynecology; pediatrics; anesthesiology; cardiology and cardiovascular surgery; dermatology; emergency medicine; gastroenterology; general surgery; hematology/ oncology; maxillofacial, oral, cosmetic and plastic surgery; neurology; ophthalmology; orthopaedic surgery; otolaryngology; psychiatry; pulmonology; radiology and radiology/ oncology; and urology.  These physicians provide a comprehensive care system for the residents in the area.

More information about Conway Regional, including a searchable database of physicians and the Web nursery, is available at www.conwayregional.org.

Rebsamen Medical Center   

This 113-bed facility at 1400 Braden Street in Jacksonville is an acute-care, general hospital serving Sherwood, Jacksonville, Cabot, Lonoke, El Paso, Austin, Ward and Beebe.  In addition to medical/surgical units, Rebsamen also features an IC/CCU, 24-hour emergency services, women’s health services, physical rehabilitation, geriatric-psychiatric services, imaging services, a sleep disorder clinic, home health services and a wound-healing clinic.  Rebsamen has been caring for the residents of north Pulaski County for more than 40 years and continues to grow with the community. 

Rivendell Behavioral Health Services of Arkansas

Rivendell operates a 77-bed free-standing psychiatric facility in Benton, which provides acute care, long-term care and outpatient services for children and adolescents between the ages of 4 and 17.

Outpatient mental health services are available throughout the state.  Rivendell offers free initial assessment referral assistance.  The assessment is designed to help families, educators, health care workers and others find appropriate resources to address the needs of children and youth experiencing emotional and behavioral problems.  Admission services are offered 24 hours a day Ð 7 days a week.

The St. Vincent Network of Care

While St. Vincent is perhaps best known for the medical center in Little Rock, St. Vincent Health System provides health care throughout central Arkansas at a number of locations.  These include St. Vincent Doctors Hospital, also in Little Rock, St. Vincent Medical Center/North and St. Vincent Rehabilitation Hospital in Sherwood, and St. Anthony’s Healthcare Center in Morrilton.  In addition, a large network of primary care clinics extends St. Vincent’s outreach into central Arkansas’ neighborhoods and business community.

St. Vincent also provides skilled nursing care, as well as therapy, education and support through the Visiting Nurses Association.  The VNA has provided home health care to patients in Arkansas for more than 60 years.  This program pioneered the development of specialty treatment areas, each staffed by a team with dedicated training in that area.  One of these specialty areas is Diabetes Treatment and Education, which is accredited by the American Diabetes Association.

Over the years, St. Vincent Health System has earned a reputation for exceptional care in many diverse fields, particularly in select specialties which are among the organization’s primary focus areas: heart, orthopedic, spine, stroke, vascular, seniors’ and women’s services.  Each of these centers of excellence is guided by the same central commitment to quality that is a St. Vincent hallmark.

The Jack Stephens Heart Center at St. Vincent is at the heart of St. Vincent Infirmary Medical Center and offers heart care unlike any other.  By utilizing advanced imaging equipment available in only a handful of hospitals anywhere in the world, the Jack Stephens Heart Center at St. Vincent is a hospital within a hospital.  From advanced diagnostic routines to the latest surgical procedures to heart health education, St. Vincent offers a comprehensive continuum of care.

The Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation and Health Management Centers offer patients the opportunity to improve their health through exercise, education and counseling.  These programs teach how to change or modify unhealthy habits to increase fitness and/or reduce risk factors for heart disease.

A specialized Chest Pain Center provides rapid diagnosis and treatment of heart attacks with advanced interventional drugs.  Every second counts in a heart attack, and the Center’s treatment protocols result in faster response times well above the national averages.

Through innovative outpatient intravenous medication therapy and patient/family education programs, the Congestive Heart Failure program helps participants improve their quality of life while living with heart failure.  The St. Vincent staff remains in close contact with patients and families to help them make wise choices.

St. Vincent Infirmary Medical Center has received five-star ratings for clinical quality and performance excellence in total knee and total hip replacement, hip fracture repair, and back and neck surgery with and without spinal fusion, according to a new study released in 2005 by HealthGrades, the nation’s leading health care quality company.  St. Vincent Infirmary Medical Center is ranked number one in Arkansas and is in the top five percent in the nation for overall orthopedic services and joint replacement surgery.

St. Vincent has specifically designed a health clinic with services for seniors in mind.  Trained professionals help patients maintain both their health and independence as they grow older.  Early and accurate diagnosis of a health problem can make it easier to treat.  Each individual has his or her own health care team working to coordinate all the necessary services.  The Senior Health Clinic features primary geriatric care, referrals to medical specialists and hospital services, help in filing insurance, coordination of community services, and on-site specialty programs for nutrition counseling, foot care, fitness assessments, medication interaction and wound care.  The clinic’s goal is to help patients remain as independent as possible.

St. Vincent is also the first in the state to create a Memory Center dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of memory loss.  Using Positron Emission Tomography, commonly known as a PET scan, the St. Vincent Memory Center provides comprehensive evaluation and treatment for people with memory loss.  Using a multidisciplinary team approach, each patient is evaluated to determine the reasons for memory loss.  Then a personalized plan of care aimed at achieving the best possible memory function is developed.

St. Vincent Doctors Hospital has created the most comprehensive center in the state devoted to the unique needs of women, the St. Vincent Center for Women and Children.

For expectant moms, St. Vincent provides a broad array of obstetric care in a family-friendly environment featuring comfortable, homelike suites for labor, delivery and recovery.  The Well Baby Nursery and specialized Neonatal Intensive Care Unit provide expert care for every baby delivered.

At the St. Vincent Breast Center a physician with special training in diagnosing breast disease is dedicated to the center full time, in order to assure the highest quality of care.  Screening mammograms, diagnostic- mammograms, ultrasounds and other interventions are provided by highly trained professionals.  If a problem is detected, experienced surgeons are available to offer the best treatment options.

The scope of commitment to provide the finest patient care modern medicine has to offer includes investing in technology that speeds the diagnostic process.  St. Vincent has long been an innovator in the area of medical technology.  St. Vincent was the first in the state to use Positron Emission Tomography (PET) in the diagnosis of cancer and other illnesses.

St. Vincent is also the first in Arkansas to have a medical cyclotron on site.  The cyclotron produces radioisotopes used with PET in the diagnosis of cancer.  Previously, this material was flown in from out of state, and depending on factors such as weather, patients might have had to wait longer for appointments if conditions were not favorable for flying.  Now, with this resource located on campus, patients treated here have the advantage of PET scans more readily available to them.

The goal of providing the best health care possible extends from specialized, innovative areas of medical care all the way to community outreach programs staffed by volunteer physicians and nurses who aid the needy.

General programs of care include emergency services, diabetes treatment, cancer treatment, home health services, senior health services, physical therapy, psychiatric care, weight reduction surgery (which has helped thousands of people overcome lifelong effects of severe obesity), as well as many others.

New Outlook, a recovery program for cancer survivors, provides counseling, wigs, prosthetics and bras free of charge regardless of where treatment is received.

Saline Memorial Hospital

Saline Memorial Hospital is a full-service, 167-bed facility.  SMH, located at #1 Medical Park Drive in Benton, opened in 1955 to ensure the availability of medical care to area residents.  Today, Saline Memorial has grown a comprehensive medical center offering a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services such as cardiology, neurology, pediatric, orthopedic, otolaryngology, ophthalmology and wound care.  The new 32,000-square-foot, $9 million Saline Surgery Center opened in February to meet the growing surgical needs of the community.  The medical staff consists of over 150 active and consulting physicians.  The hospital campus consists of 205,997 square feet of Inpatient and Outpatient treatment areas, a separate Home Health/Hospice unit, an employee Daycare Center, and two Medical Office Buildings.  Saline Memorial Hospital also has a Clinic in Bryant that offers a variety of services.  For more information, visit the Web site at www.salinememorialhospital.org. 

Southwest Regional Medical Center

Southwest Regional Medical Center is a 125-bed acute-care community hospital at the intersections of Interstate 30 and Interstate 430, Exit 128 at Otter Creek.  The facility has made a strong commitment to play a vital role as a community hospital, offering health care education and other outreach programs.  Southwest Regional features state-of-the-art technology including MRI, laser doppler imaging, cardiac cath lab, plastic and reconstructive surgery suites, sleep disorders clinic and Twin spiral CT scanner.  The most modern surgical lasers allow Southwest Regional to offer the latest in surgical technologies. 

Southwest Regional offers a wide variety of programs to the community, including wound care, occupational medicine, a sleep center, a geriatric psychiatric unit, inpatient and outpatient surgery.  The Emergency Services Department is 100 percent staffed with board-certified, emergency-trained doctors.  Southwest Regional is continually responding to the needs of central Arkansas.  The hospital is young, aggressive and the ideal size to provide patients with the personal and attentive care that’s deserved.

UAMS Medical Center

UAMS Medical Center combines the resources of a state-of-the-art hospital, outpatient center, the clinics of the Arkansas Cancer Research Center, the Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, the Donald W. Reynolds Center on Aging, the Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy, and the Jackson T. Stephens Spine and Neurosciences Institute.  Because of its role in education and research, UAMS Medical Center provides many services not typically found at a community-based hospital.  And because they are faculty members in the UAMS College of Medicine, UAMS Medical Center physicians are apprised of the latest in research and technology.  This enables patient care to remain on the forefront of new procedures and technologies. 

In fact, patients come to UAMS from around the world to receive cutting-edge, comprehensive medical care.  Here they’ll find a medical center with the most advanced diagnostic and treatment equipment, a state-of-the-art emergency/trauma department, one of the nation’s leading cancer treatment centers, the number 1 treatment center in the world for multiple myeloma, a rare cancer of the blood, one of only 20 free-standing ophthalmology research and treatment centers in the country and a world-renowned center for skull-base surgery.  UAMS also has the state’s only primary-care center for geriatrics and the state’s only gamma knife radiosurgery center.  The hospital’s state-of-the-art intensive care unit, equipped with rooms designed so that medical personnel can view patients and review their vital signs without disturbing them, has become a model for the country. 

At UAMS Medical Center, the knowledge and experience of a wide range of specialties can be quickly applied to a patient’s problem.  This is where many Arkansas health care firsts were achieved, including the first bypass heart surgery, the first bone marrow transplant, the first kidney transplant, the first treatment of sickle cell disease, the first corneal transplant, the first breast reconstruction surgery, the first outpatient chemotherapy, the first in-vitro fertilization program, the first and only skull-base surgery and the first laparoscopically implanted stomach pacemaker and the first endoscopic spine surgery.

Every year since 1996, U.S. News & World Report has listed UAMS Medical Center as one of America’s best hospitals.  No other hospital in Arkansas has ever been named to this prestigious list.  And when leading physicians across the country were asked to name the best in their field, 137 of the 239 Arkansas physicians chosen as The Best Doctors in America were on the UAMS faculty.

Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System

The Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System (CAVHS), a flagship Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care provider, is one of the largest and busiest VA medical centers in the country.  Its two hospitals, the John L. McClellan Memorial Veterans Hospital in Little Rock and the Eugene J. Towbin Healthcare Center in North Little Rock, anchor a broad spectrum of inpatient and outpatient health care services, ranging from disease prevention through primary care to complex surgical procedures to extended rehabilitative care.

CAVHS provides a full range of primary, secondary and tertiary care in medicine, surgery, psychiatry, neurology, physical medicine and rehabilitation, and offers medical care to female veterans in the Women’s Health Center.  Its Extended Care Unit provides restorative care, the Domiciliary provides rehabilitative care, and Adult Day Health Care offers a daily retreat for patients and families.  The medical center has extensive dental, eye and prosthesis services.  In fiscal year 2002, our primary care and specialty clinics generated 507,405 outpatient visits and inpatient discharges of 9,583, caring for 53,996 patients.

This System serves as a teaching facility for more than 1,300 students and residents enrolled in approximately 70 educational affiliates; its principal affiliate is the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.  It has a robust Research Service, which has more than 330 active projects.  The System is reaching out to veterans through its Community-Based Outpatient Clinics in Mountain Home, El Dorado and Hot Springs; its Home Based Primary Care Center in Hot Springs; a Drop-In Treatment Center for homeless veterans in downtown Little Rock; and a Vet Center in North Little Rock.  Throughout its rich history spanning more than 80 years, CAVHS has been widely recognized for excellence in education and research and Ñ first and foremost Ñ for a tradition of quality and caring for Arkansas veterans.

The mission of the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System is to provide compassionate health care to veterans, stressing customer satisfaction and doing the right thing the first time.  Patients benefit from state-of-the-art health care enhanced through exemplary education and research in an environment that is continuously improving.

Together, the two hospital campuses operate 562 hospital beds: 167 at the John L. McClellan Memorial Veterans Hospital in Little Rock, and 124 at the Eugene J. Towbin Healthcare Center in North Little Rock.  The North Little Rock campus also has 152 Extended Care beds and 119 Domiciliary beds.

CAVHS supports or houses a variety of other VA components that benefit veterans and employees.  The North Little Rock campus is home to the VA Regional Office; Arkansas Department of Veterans Affairs, Regional Counsel; Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center; Arkansas Hospice; Children First Childcare Center; Emergency Management Strategic Healthcare Group; Law Enforcement Training Center; Office of Resolution Management; VA Learning University; National Health Physics Program; and the Veterans Integrated Service Network’s Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center.  The hospitals have active Emergency Medical Response and HazMat Teams.