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UAMS Opens Expanded Cancer Institute
Planting seeds of hope
UAMS’ newly expanded Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute will increase the research and treatment capacity of a campus that already sees 120,000 patients a year and is a world leader in the battle against multiple myeloma. But Shirley Gray, the institute’s administrator, said that if the 300,000-square-foot facility is not needed for cancer, UAMS officials are prepared to find other uses for it.
STEVE BRAWNER |
HEALTHCARE LEADER: Conversation Continued with Paul K. Halverson, DrPH, FACHE
State Health Officer, Director, Arkansas Department of Health
State health officer Paul K. Halverson remains focused on the Arkansas Department of Health’s main strategic objectives—improving access to care, decreasing injury mortality and morbidity, decreasing infant mortality, increasing physical activity, and improving oral health. In the second of a two-part series, Medical News of Arkansas discussed with him the various ways the medical community can help bolster public health.
LYNNE JETER |
PHYSICIAN SPOTLIGHT: Jason Paul McConnell, MD
Orthopaedic Surgeon, Saline Orthopaedics Group
At the end of his first week working at Saline Orthopaedics Group in Benton, Jason Paul McConnell, MD, sounds tired but happy.
His time is divided between the main office located in Saline Memorial Hospital and the practice’s satellite clinics in Malvern and Sherwood. But practicing medicine is the easy part for this young doctor.
The hard part, he said, is “figuring out all this other stuff, like billing. It’s just a big learning curve on the business aspect of it.”
SERENAH McKAY |
Prostate Cancer Foundation Helps Men Beat Disease
Prostate Cancer Foundation Helps Men Beat Disease
When R.A. Saenz of Little Rock was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2001 at age 54, he embarked on a journey that would take him through what he called “the worst four years of my life.” Today, he’s a survivor mentor volunteering with the Arkansas Prostate Cancer Foundation to help others overcome the disease.
STEVE BRAWNER |
Platelet-rich Plasma Therapy Shows Promise
Back in the Game
In 2008, April Steiner-Bennett was on top of the world – or at least, near the top of the world rankings.
The Phoenix-based pole-vaulter, who had competed at the University of Arkansas, finished eighth in the Olympic Games in Beijing despite nursing sore hamstrings that she said felt like “a really, really, really bad toothache … but in my butt.”
STEVE BRAWNER |
10 Essential Financial Management Indicators to Review Each Month
Balancing the responsibilities of one-on-one patient care and managing the business side of practice is one of the toughest challenges physicians face. While physicians are not particularly overwhelmed by the idea of taking care of people, they may become so when it comes to keeping tabs on the financial performance of the business. Look at the following 10 essential financial indicators once a month. Your manager should be able to provide you with these data for the previous month by the tenth business day of the current month.
JENNIFER A. O’BRIEN, MSOD |
Bigger, Faster, Stronger
The Continuing Battle to Keep Athletes Safe from Supplements
Turn to the sports page in any paper, and the headlines serve as a constant reminder that professional athletes of all stripes have been tempted to step outside the straight and narrow path of good nutrition and hard work to get an edge on the competition. From baseball to bicycling, athletes are under tremendous pressure to be bigger … faster … stronger.
CINDY SANDERS |
What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You
New Report Underlines Dangers of Certain Supplements
Are you on any medications? No.
A routine question and answer … yet a slight change in the wording, might elicit a response that would alert providers to potentially dangerous supplements or medication/supplement combinations being regularly consumed by patients.
Are you taking any medications or nutritional supplements such as vitamins? Well, I take a multivitamin every day plus some B12, bitter orange for my allergies and an iron tablet on occasion.
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In-House Drug Dispensing Boosts Bottom Line and Patient Convenience
Knoxville Company Offers Turnkey Option
The mother of a sick 6-year-old pushes a double stroller out of the pediatrician’s office, the feverish first-grader trailing behind. In the stroller are a 3-year-old and a hungry and crying 8-month-old. What’s next? A 30-minute wait with three kids in tow for the two prescriptions at a chain pharmacy across town.
SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
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