UAMS Attains Comprehensive Care Center Designation for Outstanding Patient Care for Parkinson’s Disease

By Linda Satter

LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS Health) has been designated a Comprehensive Care Center by the Parkinson’s Foundation Global Care Network for providing outstanding care to Parkinson’s disease patients.

The designation recognizes medical facilities with specialized teams that provide evidence-based Parkinson’s disease care. It signifies that the UAMS Movement Disorders Clinic has met rigorous standards of excellence in the areas of comprehensive clinical care, community education and resources, and community outreach.

The Parkinson’s Foundation created the Comprehensive Care Center designation in late November and plans to apply it to just 15 medical centers across the country over the next five years. UAMS is one of only six medical centers nationwide to attain the designation so far. The others are in Connecticut, Hawaii, Louisiana, Michigan and Tennessee.

https://news.uams.edu/2022/07/25/uams-attains-comprehensive-care-center-designation-for-outstanding-patient-care-for-parkinsons-disease/

Rohit Dhall, M.D.

UAMS Outpatient Therapy Clinic Receives Parkinson’s Grant

By David Wise

Sept. 15, 2021 | FAYETTEVILLE – Parkinson Voice Project has named the UAMS Outpatient Therapy Clinic in Fayetteville as a recipient of its 2021 SPEAK OUT! & LOUD Crowd Grant Program.

SPEAK OUT! is a therapy regimen tailored to people with Parkinson’s disease to improve their voicing, and in turn, their swallowing. SPEAK OUT! is usually completed in 12 sessions spanning several weeks, and then the client transitions to the LOUD Crowd, which is a group therapy program that meets weekly. With completion of this therapy regimen, clients report improvement in their speaking and their overall quality of life.

Grant recipients include hospitals, university speech therapy clinics, private practices, and nonprofit organizations. Each clinic receives therapy supplies and free training for their speech-language pathologists and graduate students.

https://news.uams.edu/2021/09/15/uams-outpatient-therapy-clinic-receives-parkinsons-grant/