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The Division of Youth Services (DYS) provides services to families and children. [10] DYS operates correctional facilities for juveniles. The Arkansas Juvenile Assessment & Treatment Center (AJATC), [11] located in Bryant in Saline County, near Alexander, [11] [12] [13] is the primary intake and assessment center for juveniles. Originally ...
National Park Medical Center - Hot Springs, Arkansas; NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital - Jonesboro, Arkansas; North Arkansas Regional Medical Center - Harrison, Arkansas; North Metro Medical Center - Jacksonville, Arkansas; Northwest Health Emergency Department - Fayetteville, Arkansas (Opening Fall of 2019)
Following reorganization in 2019, Arkansas state government's executive branch contains fifteen cabinet-level departments. Many formerly independent departments were consolidated as "divisions" under newly created departments under a shared services model.
The Arkansas Department of Health (ADH or commonly Health Department within the state) is a department of the government of Arkansas under the Governor of Arkansas. It is responsible for protecting health and well-being for all Arkansans.
Arkansas State Hospital, originally known as Arkansas Lunatic Asylum, [1] is the sole public psychiatric hospital in the state of Arkansas, and is located in the city of Little Rock. It was established in 1883 and as of 2024, it is still active. Its main focus is on acute care rather than chronic illness. [2]
St. Bernards Medical Center is a 454-bed acute-care hospital in Jonesboro, Arkansas. [1] The hospital, established on July 5, 1900, is the flagship facility of its nonprofit parent, St. Bernards Healthcare, serving as a regional referral center for 23 counties in northeast Arkansas and southeast Missouri. [2]
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced the approval of the Central Arkansas Veterans Health Care System as one of only 12 new Fisher House program priority sites on January 26, 2021. [5] In August 2021, the system benefited from a $209,000 grant from US Department of Veteran Affairs to fight homelessness in Little Rock. [6] [7]
Although UAMS Medical Center (also known as University of Arkansas Medical Center) was founded in 1879, no patients were admitted or treated at the facility until 1892. [8] What started as a free clinic later evolved into an entity known only as City Hospital when UAMS moved their campus just outside downtown Little Rock in 1935. [8]