The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has opened a satellite transplant clinic in Texarkana. The clinic will be located at the UAMS Southwest Regional Campus.
Located inside the UAMS Family Medical Center, the satellite clinic will provide post-transplant follow-up care as well as evaluation and care for pancreatic cancer. This clinic will also offer care for liver failure and dysfunction and management of bile duct disorders.
The satellite clinic will be open on the fourth Friday of each month.
“UAMS brings to our hometown the finest and most up-to-date care for patients requiring organ transplant and post-transplant care,” Russell Mayo, M.D., director of the regional campus in Texarkana, said in a statement. “Before now, this care was only available to large metropolitan centers.”
This is the third satellite transplant clinic that UAMS has opened in Arkansas. The first was in Fayetteville at the UAMS Northwest Regional Campus, and the second was opened in early March in Jonesboro at the Northeast Regional Campus.
With the clinics open, UAMS physicians will travel between the three clinics for care and treatment. Physicians will be at the Fayetteville clinic on the first Friday of the month, at the Jonesboro clinic on the second Friday and Texarkana on the fourth Friday.
According to a UAMS release, the health system plans to offer pre-transplant care at the satellite clinics at a future time.
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