CHI St. Vincent, a leading regional health network serving Central and Southwest Arkansas, announces that Interventional Cardiologist Dr. Anthony Fletcher has been named President of the Association of Black Cardiologists (ABC). The association formally installed Fletcher as President at its spring 2024 Membership Meeting earlier this month in Atlanta.

CHI St. Vincent, a leading regional health network serving Central and Southwest Arkansas, announces that CHI St. Vincent Morrilton has been recognized as a 2024 Top 100 Critical Access Hospital by The Chartis Center for Rural Health. Chartis’ annual Top 100 award program recognizes outstanding performance among the nation’s rural hospitals based on the results of the Chartis Rural Hospital Performance INDEX®.

CHI St. Vincent, a leading regional health network serving Central and Southwest Arkansas, is announcing plans for its hospitals and clinics related to the April 8 solar eclipse, including expanded convenient care hours for some of its clinics in the path of totality. The move comes as CHI St. Vincent aims to provide healthcare to an expected influx of eclipse visitors to Arkansas while mitigating non-emergency visits to local hospitals.

CommonSpirit Health and Morehouse School of Medicine have named CHI St. Vincent Hot Springs as one of seven sites that will address two of the most pressing challenges in health care – a shortage of diverse clinicians and the need for more equitable health care. The announcement launches the first phase of the More in Common Alliance, a 10-year, $100 million initiative to increase cultural competency and expand representation to improve both access and quality of care patients receive.

CHI St. Vincent, a leading regional health network serving Central and Southwest Arkansas, announces its new CHI St. Vincent Gastroenterology Clinic in Hot Springs. Now open, the clinic offers a comprehensive range of gastrointestinal services, from preventative care to treatment.

CHI St. Vincent, a leading regional health network serving Central and Southwest Arkansas, announces that CHI St. Vincent Infirmary in Little Rock, CHI St. Vincent Hot Springs and CHI St. Vincent North in Sherwood have earned national recognition for their efforts to increase organ, tissue and eye donor awareness across the state through the DoNation Campaign.

CHI St. Vincent, a leading regional health network serving Central and Southwest Arkansas, will host a free community health fair from 9-11 a.m. on Saturday, March 9, at CHI St. Vincent Morrilton. The event will include blood pressure screenings, education on heart health, colonoscopies, strokes, trauma, CPR, and resources on smoking cessation and SNAP assistance. There will also be information on CHI St. Vincent’s 3D mammography unit and breast health.

CHI St. Vincent, a leading regional health network serving Central and Southwest Arkansas, announces that CHI St. Vincent Hot Springs has won the Large Business of the Year award from the Greater Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce.

CHI St. Vincent, a leading regional health network serving Central and Southwest Arkansas, launched its first podcast, “A View From the Bed: A Patient’s Perspective,” on Tuesday, Feb. 13. Each episode explores one patient’s unique healthcare experience, offering insights from their individual health journey in a lively and uplifting conversation.

CHI St. Vincent, a leading regional health network serving Central and Southwest Arkansas, announces the opening of 10 CHI St. Vincent ARMOMS Women’s Clinics across south Arkansas, which will offer vital, quality prenatal and postpartum care for pregnant women in underserved areas on select days throughout the week. Funded through a $4 million federal grant, the clinics will further CHI St. Vincent’s mission to provide accessible and quality healthcare throughout the state and to decrease high-risk pregnancy rates in south Arkansas.

CHI St. Vincent, a leading regional health network serving central and southwest Arkansas, announces Megan Bonney as President of CHI St. Vincent North, effective Jan. 7. Bonney has served as the CHI St. Vincent Director of Orthopedics and Cardiovascular Services since 2022. In her new role, Bonney will be responsible for the overall operations of CHI St. Vincent North, working in the greater mission of the CHI St. Vincent healthcare system to provide accessible and quality care for Arkansans.

CHI St. Vincent North, the home of the CHI St. Vincent Arkansas Neuroscience Institute, has been awarded the prestigious Stroke Care Performance Diamond Award by the Arkansas Department of Health. The award honors CHI St. Vincent for excellence in stroke patient care in the category of stroke band documentation for medium-sized hospitals.

CHI St. Vincent Hot Springs, a leading hospital serving the health care needs of Hot Springs and communities throughout Southwest Arkansas, will offer “Smoke No More in ‘24,” a free, 12-week smoking cessation class beginning Jan. 3, 2024, at CHI St. Vincent Hot Springs Cancer Center. The in-person classes will be offered from noon - 1 p.m. each Wednesday, providing an accessible program for individuals to stop smoking.

CHI St. Vincent, a leading regional health network serving Central and Southwest Arkansas, announces the opening of CHI St. Vincent Heart Clinic-Pine Bluff, a new satellite cardiology clinic led by CHI St. Vincent cardiologist Dr. Stephen Broughton. The new clinic is located within the Little Rock Allergy & Asthma Clinic in Pine Bluff and will offer appointments weekly on Wednesdays to help provide greater access to cardiology services in an underserved region of the state.

CHI St. Vincent, a leading regional health network serving Central and Southwest Arkansas, will host a Hot Springs Health Fair in conjunction with National Lung Cancer Screening Day from 9-11 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 11. The health fair will be held in the CHI St. Vincent Hot Springs outpatient lobby and aims to enhance accessibility to screenings for lung cancer and other prominent health issues on National Lung Cancer Screening Day.

The 20th annual CHI St. Vincent Golf Classic, the health system’s premier annual fundraiser, raised more than $119,000 to benefit the expansion of its Transfer Center at CHI St. Vincent Infirmary in Little Rock.

Park Plaza, Little Rock’s premier shopping and retail destination, and CHI St. Vincent, a leading regional health network serving Central and Southwest Arkansas, announce a community partnership to provide health-focused programming to enhance the quality of life for people within the Little Rock metropolitan area and Central Arkansas. The partnership also strategically aligns CHI St. Vincent and Park Plaza in their greater, overarching goals to improve their communities and better serve Central Arkansans.

CHI St. Vincent announces Dr. William G. Jones as the new President of CHI St. Vincent Infirmary. Dr. Jones has served CHI St. Vincent Infirmary as Chief Medical Officer and as Vice President of Medical Affairs for the past five years. In addition to President of the Infirmary, he will continue to serve as its Chief Medical Officer.

CHI St. Vincent North, the home of the CHI St. Vincent Arkansas Neuroscience Institute, has received the American Heart Association’s Gold Plus Get With The Guidelines ® -Stroke quality achievement award for the hospital’s commitment to ensuring stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines.

CHI St. Vincent announces that cardiologist Dr. Stephen Broughton has joined the team of specialists at the CHI St. Vincent Cardiology and Medicine Clinic in Little Rock. Dr. Broughton is now seeing patients at the clinic, located at 5315 West 12th Street.