Monticello Live

Part of a multi-column series focused on Maternal and Infant Health in Southeast Arkansas

By Kristen Smith, RN, director of Labor & Delivery/Nursery and Education at Drew Memorial Health System (more…)

Part of a multi-column series focused on Maternal and Infant Health in Southeast Arkansas

By Kristen Smith, RN, director of Labor & Delivery/Nursery and Education at Drew Memorial Health System (more…)

Statewide Attention on Maternal Mortality
Part of a multi-column series focused on Maternal and Infant Health in Southeast Arkansas

By Kristen Smith, RN, director of Labor & Delivery/Nursery and Education at Drew Memorial Health System

As I mentioned last week in my previous column, my aim in writing is to help local women and their families understand more about the recent national attention that maternal health has received. I also hope to let Southeast Arkansans know about what has been done already to combat the startling statistics we’ve seen on a statewide and national level. (more…)

Part of a multi-column series focused on Maternal and Infant Health in Southeast Arkansas

By Kristen Smith, RN, director of Labor & Delivery/Nursery and Education at Drew Memorial Health System (more…)

Entergy‘s Charitable Foundation awarded Mainline Health Systems, Inc. a grant for its behavioral health therapy program. (more…)

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In a private family reception and ceremony Monday, Drew Memorial Health System formally dedicated the Olivia Faith Beebe Nursery. (more…)

The Health Resources and Services Administration awarded a $600,000 grant to the Arkansas Rural Health Partnership (ARHP) for the creation of the ARHP-Outreach Program (ARHP-OP). (more…)

Call 870-460-4766…no appointment necessary. (more…)

This December, Stephanie White, LPN was recognized by the UAM College of Technology- McGehee Practical Nursing students as their Nurse of the Year at Drew Memorial Health System.

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A Pafford Air One medical helicopter crashed early Sunday evening, in an isolated area near De Witt, (more…)

Drew Memorial would like to welcome Dr. N. Lakshmi Battala, OB/GYN to our Women’s Services team.

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Local residents have reported an ongoing telephone scam that involves Caller ID “spoofing.”

This practice is a form of telemarketing that impersonates a local phone number that does not reflect the original caller location.

In this instance, Drew Memorial Health System administration has been made aware of calls to local numbers which show up on Caller ID as being from “Drew Memorial Hospital,” despite the fact that the hospital has no affiliation with the actual entity placing the call.

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Community Health Centers of Arkansas honored Mainline Health Systems executive director Allan Nichols for his service last week in Little Rock.

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Representatives from a local group attended the McGehee City Council meeting, last week, to support the possibility of a medical marijuana dispensary being located in McGehee.

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Dr. Jeffrey Reinhart was re-instated to practice by the Arkansas medical board, Thursday, following his recent suspension.

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After months of discussion and consideration of two different proposals to provide a school-based health clinic for Drew Central schools, the board voted by 3-2 margin to go with the proposal from Mainline Health Systems.

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Robert Jacobs, D.O. was selected among 35 medical directors as the Medical Director of the Year by Emergency Staffing Solutions.

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