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Arkansas Advocate: Baptist Health closing Fort Smith hospital’s labor and delivery unit
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Arkansas Advocate: Baptist Health closing Fort Smith hospital’s labor and delivery unit

Baptist Health is closing the labor and delivery unit and ending obstetric care at its Fort Smith hospital, leaving Arkansas with only 31 hospitals where women can give birth in less than a third of the state’s counties

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Baptist to acquire South Arkansas Regional Hospital in El Dorado
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Baptist to acquire South Arkansas Regional Hospital in El Dorado

This June, Baptist Health will officially add the hospital, licensed for 151 beds, as Baptist Health Medical Center-El Dorado

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Quorum Court tables ordinance as contract dispute continues between Valor, Clark County
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Quorum Court tables ordinance as contract dispute continues between Valor, Clark County

Valor EMS has lost half a million dollars since becoming the county’s 911 ambulance provider, the Clark County Quorum Court was told Monday evening

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UPDATE: Pafford acquires Baptist Health ambulance service in Arkadelphia; paramedics offered to stay on board
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UPDATE: Pafford acquires Baptist Health ambulance service in Arkadelphia; paramedics offered to stay on board

Despite outcry on social media to keep Clark County’s ambulance service local, Baptist Health has reportedly chosen Pafford EMS to take the wheel of its ambulance fleet

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Fate of Arkadelphia ambulance service in limbo as ProMed withdraws offer; 2 companies now vying for coverage
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Fate of Arkadelphia ambulance service in limbo as ProMed withdraws offer; 2 companies now vying for coverage

What we know about recent ambulance activity

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Velma Jean Newburn
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Velma Jean Newburn

Jean was an active member of the “Red Hats”, a ladies’ social club that brought joy to her heart and laughter into her life

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Baptist Health announces sale of ambulance service to ProMed
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Baptist Health announces sale of ambulance service to ProMed

This ambulance service covering Clark County will officially move to ProMed on April 6

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