UAMS Hospital

About

UAMS is Arkansas' only academic medical center. To request an appointment, call the UAMS Appointment Center at 501-686-8000.

Story

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is one of the region's major academic health centers, located in Little Rock, Arkansas, with outreach programs operating in every county and a regional campus in Northwest Arkansas. In addition to our hospital and clinics, UAMS includes five colleges and a graduate school, eight Area Health Education Centers, and seven institutes of excellence. In 2009, UAMS Medical Center completed a 540,000 square-foot expansion, which gives our teaching hospital a total of 434 beds — including 330 adult beds, 30 adult psychiatric beds, 10 pediatric psychiatric beds and 64 bassinets. We have a new emergency department, clinical lab and radiology department along with room to expand other services.

Mission

The mission of UAMS is to improve the health, health care and well-being of Arkansans and of others in the region, nation and the world by

- Education of current and future health professionals and the public
- Providing high quality, innovative health care and also providing specialty expertise not routinely available in community settings
- Advancing knowledge in areas of human health and disease and translating and accelerating discoveries into health improvements.