The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) today announced that Mainline Health System Inc. of Star City, AR has received NCQA Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) Recognition for using evidence-based, patient-centered processes that focus on highly coordinated care and long?term, participative relationships. 

The NCQA Patient-Centered Medical Home is a model of primary care that combines teamwork and information technology to improve care, improve patients’ experience of care and reduce costs. Medical homes foster ongoing partnerships between patients and their personal clinicians, instead of approaching care as the sum of episodic office visits. Each patient’s care is overseen by clinician-led care teams that coordinate treatment across the health care system. Research shows that medical homes can lead to higher quality and lower costs, and can improve patient and provider reported experiences of care. (more…)

Arkansans to Access Free Dental Care

The Arkansas Mission of Mercy to Provide a Two-Day, 100-Chair Dental Clinic at Monticello.

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ARMOM, a Free Dental Clinic, sponsored by the Arkansas Dental Association, will be returning to Monticello, on May 20-21, to be held at UAM Gibson Center.

Dentists from all around the state will combine their skills for a tremendous cost-free dental clinic, for residents from all across the state, who need dental care.

When ARMOM was in Monticello, in 2010, 1,254 patients were treated, 3,001 teeth were extracted, and thousand’s of fillings were done. The value of the services that were provided for free would have cost, $760,000.

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Thursday night’s open meeting about Drew Memorial Hospital’s proposed 1/4 cent extension of the expiring 1/2 cent library tax provided a chance for members of the public to meet the new surgeons, as well as hear updated statistics on surgery, and see the drawings of the new facility.

The question & answer session was also informative, especially dealing with the current 40 year old operating room.

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DMH CEO Scott Barrilleaux give a more detailed report about the upcoming hospital expansion.

DMH’s Scott Barrilleaux is on the front cover of this weeks Arkansas Business magazine, following an interview on the issue of private options affect on local hospitals’ operating budgets.

MonticelloLive interview Barrilleaux, Tuesday morning, where he summarized his interview with AB, and explained in layman’s terms
what “private option” is, and how it works.

LPN wanted for Busy Monticello area Practice

LPN needs Experience in ICD9 and knowledge of ICD10 and Billing Clinic Exp. helpful

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After serving 10 years on the Drew Memorial Hospital Board of Directors, with around 6 of those years as chairman, Jim Searcy has announced that he will leave that position when his term expires on June 30.

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Drs. John  Jerius and Michelle Pittman, a husband and wife surgical team, are now a part of the Drew Memorial Hospital staff.

They’ve recently received their Arkansas medical license, and began work at DMH over the weekend, following their move to Arkansas from Louisiana..

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Posted below is the most important segment of the final successful determination of Drew Memorial Hospital’s recent appeal to Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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The 3rd annual “Dancing with the Monticello Stars” was held Tuesday night by the Southeast Arkansas Health Foundation, raising $30,847 for Drew Memorial Hospitas projects.

Last year , the foundation contributed $100,000 in donations to be used in the oncology dept., and a $15,000 donation to purchase a fetal monitor, among other items.

This years winners were….

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Allan Nichols, Director of Mainline Health Systems, addressed the City Council at their meeting at last week’s City Council meeting, to ask for permission to purchase property adjoining the new fIre station on North Main Street, for the purpose of building a larger clinic.

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The Drew Memorial Hospital Board of Directors met in a special called meeting, Monday morning, and approved a “settlement” with “employees.”

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A Watson Chapel ninth-grade defensive end, Josh Pierce, lined up for a defensive play during the first quarter of the Monticello at Watson Chapel game, Thursday night, and then collapsed as he got into position for the play.

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A 31-year-old Monticello man, while visiting a friend or relative in Drew Memorial, allegedly took the opportunity to vandalize at least 20 restrooms in the hospital, taking several unusual items from the “facilities.”

The suspect in this case also made the news a few months ago for the early-morning theft of a forklift.

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