Health Care

CHI St. Vincent is no longer a part of the Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield system, the health insurer announced Tuesday morning. CHI St. Vincent is part of the Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health system, which operates 2,200 facilities in 24 …

Researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute have received a $2.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study endemic Burkitt lymphoma (eBL), an aggressive cancer that mainly affects children. The …

Jimmy Anthony has been tabbed to serve as the next president of Delta Dental of Arkansas. He will take on his new duties, effective Jan. 1, 2027, replacing the retiring Kristin Merlo. Merlo will remain in an advisory role through …

The Landes Group of Dallas has completed the acquisition of Encore Medical Center in Bryant and finalized a long-term lease agreement with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, which will operate the facility, according to a press release. Encore …

Arkansas is investing $149.3 million in rural healthcare through the first round of Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP) grants. Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders recently announced the awards, with funding going to 50 projects across the state. The grants were established …

Arkansas Surgical Hospital has added specialists Dr. Suzanne Abou-Diab and Dr. Iou-Ren Chang to its team. Abou-Diab is an interventional pain medicine physician. Chang is a fellowship-trained orthopedic surgeon specializing in adult reconstruction and complex hip and knee revision surgery. …

Mercy hospitals in Fort Smith and Rogers have been recognized among the nation’s top-performing hospitals for heart attack care. Both Mercy Hospital Fort Smith and Mercy Hospital Northwest Arkansas earned the American College of Cardiology’s NCDR Chest Pain-MI Registry Platinum …

WelcomeHealth, the nonprofit, free health clinic serving northwest Arkansas, will celebrate its 40th anniversary on Thursday, Aug. 27. “A Toast to Health,” the organization’s signature annual fundraising event, will be held at the Fayetteville Public Library, with a reception beginning …

Chris Barber St. Bernards Medical Center Jonesboro Chris Barber is president and CEO of St. Bernards Healthcare, which serves 23 counties in northeast Arkansas and southeast Missouri. In his three decades with St. Bernards, Barber worked his way up from …

John Brown University in Siloam Springs has announced a $34.5 million gift to launch a Master of Science in physician assistant studies and three Master of Science nurse practitioner tracks: family nurse practitioner, nurse-midwifery and psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner. The …