Arkansas Center for Health Improvement

Reporter Sophia Nourani speaks with the president of Arkansas Center for Health Improvement. This nonpartisan health consulting organization recently published the Arkansas Acute Behavioral Events Dashboard, a tool meant to provide health providers and insurers with a way to see the state of mental health in Arkansas.

A new tool is designed to give health providers and insurers a deeper look at mental health in Arkansas. On today's show, we hear that the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement has a new Arkansas Acute Behavioral Events Dashboard. Also, a winter storm has area meteorologists working overtime, including Walmart’s in-house meteorologist. Plus, water resource groups are thinking about drinking water for a northwest Arkansas that has one million people.

Most postpartum mothers in northwest Arkansas who have experienced an acute behavioral health event have not received follow-up care.

The Arkansas Center for Health Improvement recently analyzed data that takes a comprehensive look at child delivering providers in Northwest Arkansas.

A new project launched in Arkansas for parents to share their stories about their experiences before, during and after pregnancy. Arkansans for Improving Maternal Health, or AIM, is collecting stories from families who have dealt with poor maternal health outcomes in an effort to humanize statistics. Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams spoke with Ashely Bearden Campbell, the executive director of Arkansans for Improving Maternal Health about the project.

Mothers in some parts of Arkansas are much more likely to deliver via C-Section, according to ACHI analysis

The Arkansas Center for Health Improvement will be hosting two symposia — one in Little Rock and another in Fayetteville — to discuss the future of health care, media literacy to spot medical misinformation, and more. Dr. Shawn Dubravac will be the keynote speaker.

On today's show, preparing borrowers for making payments on student loans as they resume this month after a three-year pause. Also, an interview previewing two symposia from the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement about the future of healthcare. Plus, archives from the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History.

Working with the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement (ACHI), Ozarks at Large reporter Rachell Sanchez-Smith and CEO Dr. Joe Thompson dive into depth about maternal health and deaths in Arkansas in this third episode of the series.

In this limited series, ACHI's CEO Dr. Joe Thompson and reporter Rachell Sanchez-Smith discuss maternal health and deaths in Arkansas, focusing on pre-term deaths and what can be done to lower the high rates of maternal mortality.