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Eugene Hardeman Abington (1873–1965)
Eugene Hardeman (E. H.) Abington, a physician, practiced medicine and pharmacy in Arkansas and Oklahoma for mo...
William Henry Abington (1870–1951)
William Henry (W. H.) Abington, a physician and a Democratic politician, served as a state senator and a state...
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Abortion
Abortion is defined as either a spontaneous early ending of a pregnancy (a.k.a. miscarriage) or an induced ear...
Act 1220 of 2003
aka: Childhood Obesity Act
Act 1220 of 2003, which launched comprehensive efforts to curb chil...
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Act 346 of 2021
Act 346 of 2021, titled “An Act to Prohibit the Performance of a Pelvic Examination on an Unconscious or Ane...
Act 911 of 1989
aka: Arkansas Conditional Release Program
Act 911 of 1989 pertains to the evaluation, commitment, and conditi...
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Elizabeth Lucille (Betty Lu) Hunter Sorensen Adams (1926–)
Elizabeth Lucille (Betty Lu) Hunter Sorensen Adams was a pioneer occupational therapist at Arkansas Children...
"Northeast Arkansas Regional AIDS Network" flyer with contact information
AIDS
By 2007, a cumulative 4,119 Arkansans had been diagnosed with Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), the d...
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Thomas Dale Alford (1916–2000)
Thomas Dale Alford was a prominent Arkansas ophthalmologist, Episcopalian, radio announcer, civic leader, and ...
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Alzheimer's Arkansas
Alzheimer’s Arkansas is an incorporated nonprofit organization governed by a local board of directors consis...
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American Red Cross
The American Red Cross has been active in Arkansas since the second decade of the twentieth century. As an org...
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Arkansas Association of Black Psychology Professionals (AABPP)
The Arkansas Association of Black Psychology Professionals (AABPP), founded in January 2011, is a professional...
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Arkansas Biosciences Institute (ABI)
The Arkansas Biosciences Institute (ABI) was created as the major research component set forth in the Tobacco ...
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Arkansas Blood Labeling Bill
aka: HB 385
On April 2, 1959, Governor Orval E. Faubus signed HB 385 (Blood Lab...
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Arkansas Children's Colony
aka: Conway Human Development Center
Dedicated on October 4, 1959, the Arkansas Children’s Colony was ...
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Arkansas Children's Hospital (ACH)
Arkansas Children’s Hospital (ACH), with facilities in Little Rock (Pulaski County) and Springdale (Washing...
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Arkansas Country Doctor Museum (ACDM)
The Arkansas Country Doctor Museum (ACDM) in Lincoln (Washington County), in rural northwest Arkansas, is loca...
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Arkansas Department of Health (ADH)
The Arkansas Department of Health (ADH) exercises supervision over all matters pertaining to the health of Ark...
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Arkansas Health Center
The Arkansas Health Center (AHC), located in Benton (Saline County), is a 310-bed nursing facility licensed an...
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Arkansas Medical Society
The Arkansas Medical Society (AMS), founded in 1875, describes itself as the premier professional organization...
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Arkansas Medical, Dental, and Pharmaceutical Association
The Arkansas Medical, Dental, and Pharmaceutical Association (AMDPA) was founded in 1893 by a group of African...
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Arkansas Methodist Medical Center
Arkansas Methodist Medical Center (AMMC) in Paragould (Greene County) provides healthcare for residents of nor...
Arkansas Nurses Association
On October 30, 1912, twenty-four Arkansas nurses gathered at the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) ...
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Arkansas State Hospital
The Arkansas State Hospital is the only state-owned and -operated facility for the treatment of mental illness...
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Arkansas State Medical Association (ASMA)
The Arkansas State Medical Association (ASMA), organized in 1870, was Arkansas’s first statewide professiona...
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Arkansas Tuberculosis Sanatorium
The Arkansas Tuberculosis Sanatorium (also called simply the State Sanatorium) was established in 1909 about t...
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ARKids First
ARKids First is a state-run health insurance program for needy children. The program, which is an expansion of...
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Army-Navy Hospital
aka: Hot Springs Rehabilitation Center
aka: Arkansas Career Training Institute
The building that later became the Hot Springs Rehabilitation Cente...
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Marian Breland Bailey (1920–2001)
Marian Ruth Kruse Breland Bailey was a pioneer in the field of animal behavior. Marian and her first husband, ...
postcard of multistoried light building with gabled roofs and chimneys "The Baker Hospital Eureka Springs Arkansas"
Norman Baker (1882–1958)
Norman Glenwood Baker is best known in Arkansas as a promoter of alternative medicine who settled in Eureka Sp...
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Baptist Health
Baptist Health, Arkansas’s largest healthcare system, has hospital campuses in communities around Arkansas, ...
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Baptist Health College Little Rock
Baptist Health College Little Rock (BHCLR), a part of Baptist Health Medical Center–Little Rock, focuses on ...