Health Care
Hospitals, Medical Industry Among Region’s Largest Employers
Allegiance Specialty Hospital of Little Rock is a 40-bed Long Term Acute Care Hospital (LTACH) designed to care for medically complex patients who require acute medical care for an extended period of time, 25 days on average. Allegiance provides individualized and resource intensive care and is equipped to treat a wide range of patients. Each patient receives a multi-disciplinary plan of care allowing them to achieve optimal outcomes. Conditions appropriate for an LTACH include: respiratory disorders, cardiac
and multi-system failure, ventilator dependence, renal disease, malnutrition, rehabilitation with complex needs, wound care, reconstructive and extended post surgical care, infectious disease, and the medically complex.
Allegiance Specialty Hospital is located on the second floor of the former Southwest Hospital building. Allegiance is owned by Allegiance health Management of Shreveport, LA. For more information, visit allegiancespecialtyhospitaloflr.com.
Arkansas Children’s Hospital is a private, not-for-profit facility, licensed for 280 beds. The hospital provides health care to children from birth to age 21 and also houses a Level III-C neonatal intensive care unit. 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. In 2007,
ACH opened the Pediatric Understanding and Learning through Simulation Education (PULSE) Center, one of the nation’s first pediatric simulation education programs. The experience includes life-like computerized manikins and a team of standardized patients, allowing students, physicians and other medical personnel to polish their skills in near reality scenarios before putting them to use with actual patients.
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 80 specialty outpatient clinics through its campus at 1 Children’s Way in Little Rock. ACH also operates a specialty clinic in west Little Rock.
Arkansas Heart Hospital is the state’s first and only specialty hospital dedicated solely to the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease. 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. 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, all private room specialty heart hospital. 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 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 in Little Rock.
With 803 beds, Baptist Health Medical Center – Little Rock 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 disease, 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 is also known for its highly successful organ transplant program. The state’s first heart transplant was performed there in 1989. The hospital recently completed its 163rd heart transplant and 736th kidney transplant.
Baptist Health Medical Center – Little Rock’s 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, Nicotine Dependence Program, Outpatient Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program, Diabetes Self Management Program, and Baptist Health Weight Loss Program have benefited many Arkansans.
Facilities include a Magnetic Resonance Imaging Center, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Baptist Health Eye Center, Hickingbotham Outpatient Center (housing the Baptist Health Breast Center), Baptist Health Heart Center (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 the Baptist Health Women’s Center.
Baptist Health Medical Center – North Little Rock is a not-for-profit, acute-care hospital licensed for 190 beds, including a 30-bed inpatient rehabilitation center. Baptist Heatlh Medical Center – North Little Rock offers services usually found only in larger, metropolitan facilities. Comprehensive diagnostic, surgical, outpatient, laser, and pain management, critical care and emergency services are available at the medical center.
This new, state-of-the-art facility is located at 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.
Baptist Health Rehabilitation Institute (BHRI), a 120 bed private, not-for-profit facility, is the largest rehabilitation hospital in the state. The institute offers complete, comprehensive rehabilitation therapy with the most modern inpatient and outpatient technology and treatments available. Specialized programs are available for treating strokes, head/brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, neuromuscular disease (Parkinsons, multiple sclerosis), orthopedic injuries and joint replacements, amputations, Guillian-Barre
Syndrome and generalized weakness.
BHRI is certified by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) and the Commission for the Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF). It is also the only facility in the state to be CARF specialty certified for the treatment of brain injuries and spinal cord injuries. BHRI is located on the Baptist Health Medical Center – Little Rock campus, 9601 Interstate 630.
CARTI is a statewide network of freestanding, nonprofit radiation therapy centers. CARTI currently has Pulaski County locations on the campuses of St. Vincent Infirmary Medical Center, Baptist Medical Center in Little Rock and North Little Rock, and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. As a leader among radiation therapy providers, CARTI is dedicated to offering the highest quality radiation therapy and compassionate patient care. CARTI offers a full slate of educational and awareness programs aimed
at treating the “whole” patient. In the community, CARTI presents a wide variety of outreach programs for both cancer patients and their families. In addition to Pulaski County, CARTI has facilities in Conway, Mountain Home 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.
Methodist Family Health provides comprehensive behavioral healthcare to children and families of Arkansas, through myriad services.
It offers levels of care ranging from the most restrictive service level (Acute Psychiatric Hospital Care) to the least restrictive service level (outpatient counseling), simultaneously providing all intermediate residential levels of care. Youth receive all educational requirements while in residential placement at Methodist Family Health. Methodist Family Health also offers treatment for mothers with addiction disorders, and for their children through the Arkansas CARES program.
In addition to serving children, families are served as well, including adult family members. Arkansas CARES offers treatment in Little Rock for women with addictive disorders and for their children. The Counseling Clinic offers services for adults and children in Little Rock, Fayetteville, and Magnolia. In addition, Methodist Family Health offers parenting classes throughout the state.
Methodist Family Health has established varying components of behavioral healthcare services in nineteen (19) Arkansas cities and towns, and offers a wide array of care venues. In the twelve months ending June 30, 2008, Methodist Family Health touched 2,342 individual lives in one or more of its treatment venues.
Every day Methodist Family Health serves approximately 300 clients in its inpatient and residential venues of care, with an additional 800 clients receiving intermittent care in outpatient and school-based services.
Pinnacle Pointe Hospital is located at 11501 Financial Centre Parkway in Little Rock and is the largest provider of child and adolescent behavioral health services in Arkansas. A 102-bed facility in west Little Rock, Pinnacle Pointe provides an acute inpatient program for stabilization and short term care, a longer-term residential program, a state-accredited K-12 educational program on site, an alternative learning center with day treatment program, outpatient services located in Little Rock and Mountain View,
school-based services in Conway, Mountain View and Little Rock, and behavioral health and wellness education and workshops for professionals. All programs are JCAHO accredited and Tricare-certified. The facility offers confidential, no-charge, assessments by licensed clinicians, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Pinnacle Point accepts most insurance, Tricare and Medicaid. Pinnacle Point was named the 2007 Residential Facility of the Year – for Outstanding Service – by the Arkansas Psychological Association.
For more information, including career opportunities, call 1.800.880.3322.
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. Rivendell also provides services to adults 18 and older.
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, seven days a week.
As Little Rock’s first hospital, St. Vincent is proud of its history of serving central Arkansas residents – body, mind and spirit. The hospital is continuing its commitment of caring for you and your family by investing in new, state-of-the-art facilities so its future will be even stronger than its past.
Its all-new Emergency Department at St. Vincent Infirmary Medical Center has more space and resources, allowing them to be more responsive than ever in any emergency.
A new Critical Care Unit with four distinct specialty areas is designed to care for your specific critical needs so you’ll benefit from the expertise of nurses and technicians trained in medical, surgical, cardiovascular and critical care.
All Private Rooms
At St. Vincent you’re considered a guest as well as a patient. Every patient room is a private room with amenities such as free valet parking and wireless Internet. Your comfort and privacy matter as much to the St. Vincent staff as they do to you.
The Jack Stephens Heart Center at St. Vincent
You’ll find advanced imaging equipment available in only a handful of hospitals anywhere in the world. St. Vincent has Arkansas’ first Accredited Chest Pain Center, the Congestive Heart Failure Program and the Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation and Health Management Centers.
The St. Vincent Center for Women and Children
Delivering babies and caring for their moms have been part of St. Vincent since 1888. Today, its all-new Center for Women and Children features private rooms and spacious Birthing Suites designed with special touches just for families – none more special than those you’ll receive from their expert staff, experienced nurses, and the state’s first neonatal ICU.
The Longevity Center at St. Vincent
Directed by world renowned geriatrician, Dr. David Lipschitz, St. Vincent has designed a health center specifically for baby boomers and their parents. Trained professionals help you maintain health and independence as you age. You’ll have your own healthcare team coordinating all services needed to feel your best, including primary care, referrals to medical specialists and hospital services, on-site specialty programs for nutrition counseling, stress management, fitness assessment, and medication
interaction.
Award Winning St. Vincent Orthopedic Center
The St. Vincent Orthopedic Center has been repeatedly recognized as Arkansas’ Number One Joint-Replacement Program. The St. Vincent Joint Academy is designed to inform you and your loved ones of what to expect from – and how to prepare for – joint-replacement surgery. It’s the first of its kind in Arkansas – precisely what you’d expect from the state’s number one joint-replacement program. St. Vincent Facilities
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St. Vincent Infirmary Medical Center, in the heart of Mid-town Little Rock, with a $47 million expansion underway
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St. Vincent Doctors Hospital, Little Rock
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St. Vincent Medical Center/North and St. Vincent Rehabilitation Hospital, Sherwood
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St. Anthony’s Medical Center, Morrilton.
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A large network of primary care clinics St. Vincent accepts most health insurance and is included in all provider networks of Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield and its affiliates, including Arkansas’ First Source.
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is Arkansas’s only comprehensive academic health center, with five colleges, a graduate school, a medical center, six centers of excellence, and a statewide network of regional centers. It is also the state’s largest public employer with more than 10,000 employees, including about 1,150 physicians who provide medical care to patients at UAMS, Arkansas Children’s Hospital and the VA Medical Center. UAMS and its affiliates have an economic
impact in Arkansas of more than $5 billion a year.
UAMS has grown from a small medical school with a charity hospital into an academic health center and research leader. UAMS’ six centers of excellence – the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, the Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy, the Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute, the Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, the Psychiatric Research Institute and the Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging – have some of the nation’s top researchers and clinicians
on their staffs.
In December 2008, UAMS’ Psychiatric Research Institute opened a newly constructed five-floor, 100,000-square-foot facility that includes space for inpatient and outpatient treatment, education, research and administration. It consolidates a department previously scattered over several locations, serving about 8,700 patients monthly.
In January 2009, UAMS Medical Center is scheduled to open a 10-level, 540,000-square-foot hospital expansion that will include 234 adult beds and 64 neonatal beds, with space for growth. Between the new facility and the hospital’s existing Ward Tower, the hospital has 333 all-private, adult rooms.
Other construction projects at UAMS include a 12-floor, 300,000-square-foot addition to the cancer institute. The former Arkansas Cancer Research Center was renamed in 2007 for the late Arkansas Lieutenant Governor Winthrop P. Rockefeller. The addition is expected to open in 2010.