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Evie Blad

Health Care & Education Reporter

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State Hospital given more time

posted: 05/26/2012 3:24 a.m. Discuss

In the wake of a patient report of rape at the State Hospital, federal Medicaid officials have extended the deadline by which the hospital must fix documented problems with patient treatment or lose the federal funding.

UA System approves raises

posted: 05/25/2012 5:37 a.m. Discuss

For the first time in several years, most of the University of Arkansas System’s campuses will start the next fiscal year with plans to provide faculty pay increases.

UAMS to launch computer revamp

posted: 05/25/2012 5:26 a.m. Discuss

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences will spend $87 million to convert to a new computer system that will allow for the easier creation and sharing of electronic patient records.

UA trustees notebook

posted: 05/25/2012 5:14 a.m. Discuss

Loan to buy assets of CARTI approved HOT SPRINGS — The University of Arkansas board of trustees Thursday approved plans for the University of Arkansas at Medical Sciences to borrow $9.5 million to purchase the assets of the CARTI branch on its campus.

2 at State Hospital fired over unit laxity

posted: 05/24/2012 4:03 a.m. Discuss

The State Hospital fired two employees Wednesday for failing to properly monitor patients after a female patient’s allegation that a male patient raped her in an adult psychiatric unit there April 30.

Albert Pike area to be open days

posted: 05/23/2012 4:45 a.m. Discuss

The U.S. Forest Service plans to reopen portions of the Albert Pike Recreation Area for daytime use this week, bringing visitors back to the site where rapidly rising nighttime floodwaters killed 20 people in 2010.

Justice in genocide said to need realism

posted: 05/22/2012 2:25 a.m. Discuss

After a genocide in Rwanda that left nearly 1 million people dead and about 200,000 people accused of committing and orchestrating violent crimes, the African nation faced “the biggest judicial challenge in legal history,” a government leader said in Little Rock on Monday.

County district advises new zones

posted: 05/22/2012 2:24 a.m. Discuss

The Pulaski County Special School District is recommending school board election zones that would cluster schools in the same zone based on “feeder” patterns and account for rapid population growth in some parts of the district.

LR School Board’s Nellums hired as PB school principal

posted: 05/19/2012 4:58 a.m. Discuss

The Pine Bluff School Board hired Little Rock School Board Vice President Michael Nellums as principal of Pine Bluff High School.

Letter on PB school chief’s firing under wraps

posted: 05/18/2012 2:57 a.m. Discuss

The Pine Bluff School Board approved a letter Thursday detailing its reasons for firing Superintendent Jerry Payne, who has held the job for less than a year.

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