Health-care policy focus of event in LR
The Arkansas Medical Dental Pharmaceutical Association and Region V of the National Medical Association will host a conference on health-care policy and health disparities in June in Little Rock.
The event will be June 6-8 at the Statehouse Convention Center.
The conference will bring together health-care providers, academics and researchers to elaborate on challenges and opportunities brought by changes to the health-care system.
It will include current reports on health-care operations research and analytics; presentations by leading researchers and practitioners; and discussion on the effect health disparities have on the health-care system.
There will be several minsymposiums within the conference on such topics as health policy, stroke, obesity, asthma and women’s health.
Information on registration and the conference is available by contacting the Arkansas Medical Dental Pharmaceutical Association office at (501) 265-0156 or by e-mail at amdpa@sbcglobal.net .
- David Smith
2 state bank firms to release earnings
Conway-based Home BancShares Inc., the parent of Centennial Bank, and Simmons First National of Pine Bluff will release their first-quarter earnings reports today and offer conference calls with executives discussing the quarter.
Home BancShares’ conference call will be at 1 p.m. today. Interested parties may access the call by dialing (888) 317-6016 and asking for the Home Banc-Shares conference call.
The call will also be available on the bank’s website at www.homebancshares.com.
Simmons will conduct its conference call today at 3 p.m. To access the call, dial (888) 428-9480 and ask for the Simmons First National conference call, conference ID 9344862.
The call will be available live or in recorded version on Simmons’ website at www.simmonsfirst.com.
- David Smith
13 declining stocks pull index down 2.21
The Arkansas Index, a price-weighted index that tracks the largest public companies based in the state, dropped 2.21 to 261.26 Wednesday.
“U.S. stocks moved lower as pessimism about European growth and a poor round of earnings from U.S. companies weighed on the markets,” said John Blackwell, senior vice president and managing director of equity trading at Stephens Inc. in Little Rock. “The Arkansas Index dropped as 13 stocks declined and three advanced.”
Arkansas Best lost 4.9 percent in average trading.
The index was developed by Bloomberg News and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette with a base value of 100 as of Dec. 30, 1997.
Business, Pages 25 on 04/18/2013