Thank you for your interest in UAMS in Northwest Arkansas. The UAMS Northwest Regional Campus was established in 2007 to meet the growing demand for health care professionals and to support the growth in the Northwest Arkansas region. Northwest Arkansas is a collection of vibrant and rapidly expanding communities, and the need for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, therapists, and other health care providers will continue to grow with our region’s population. The UAMS Northwest Regional Campus is excited to continue to expand our efforts to meet the communities’ needs.
Our campus is located in Fayetteville, Arkansas, just one mile from the University of Arkansas campus. To learn more about life in Northwest Arkansas, visit www.FindingNWA.com. To learn more about the UAMS investment in Northwest Arkansas, read on and explore our site.
Academic
Our campus has grown from a handful of students to more than 350 in the 2023-2024 school year. Our academic programs include the Colleges of Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing, and Health Professions (Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Genetic Counseling, Radiologic Imaging Sciences, and Diagnostic Medical Sonography).
Residencies and fellowships are an important part of training the next generation of health care providers, and the UAMS Northwest Regional Campus is proud to offer residencies in family medicine, rural family medicine, internal medicine, and pharmacy, along with a fellowship in sports medicine.
Clinical Care
UAMS has two family medicine clinics, in Fayetteville and Springdale, where 30 family medicine residents practice, along with additional full and part-time physicians. More than 50,000 patients in Northwest Arkansas receive care at these two clinics each year. UAMS also has clinics in Northwest Arkansas that specialize in internal medicine, orthopaedics and sports medicine, psychiatry, transplants, genetics, speech therapy, physical therapy, and occupational therapy. UAMS also provides specialty pediatric care through the Children’s Center for Health and Wellness and at Arkansas Children’s Northwest in Springdale.
ANGELS – the Antenatal and Neonatal Guidelines, Education, and Learning System – has sites in Washington, Benton, Carroll, and Boone counties and is designed to connect high risk obstetric and perinatal patients with access to the best specialty care via telemedicine, reducing the amount of time families have to spend traveling to Little Rock.
UAMS in Northwest Arkansas is also part of ARSAVES – Stroke Assistance through Virtual Emergency Support – and works with five hospitals in Northwest Arkansas to connect stroke patients with vascular neurologists who are available for consultation 24/7.
UAMS continues to invest heavily in Northwest Arkansas, and we look forward to bringing additional clinical services close to home.
Strategic Partnerships
UAMS is proud to partner with Arkansas Children’s Hospital Northwest, the Arkansas Department of Health, Community Clinic of Northwest Arkansas, Highlands Oncology Group, Mercy Health Systems Northwest Arkansas, Northwest Health, Veterans Health Care System of the Ozarks, the University of Arkansas, Washington Regional Medical Center, the Whole Health Institute, and the Northwest Arkansas Council.
Community Programs
Through our Institute for Community Health Innovation in Springdale, UAMS works to reduce health disparities and increase access to chronic disease prevention and management services in Northwest Arkansas. Community programs include diabetes prevention and management, sodium reduction programs, community health worker training, Marshallese medical interpreter training, cultural competency training for health care providers, and investments in community gardens and cooking and nutrition classes. Partner organizations for community health programs include the Arkansas Coalition of Marshallese, Cargill, Cisneros Center for New Americans, Feed Communities, Samaritan Community Center, Springdale Public Schools, Tyson Foods, and the University of Arkansas. UAMS staff and faculty also engage in community-based participatory research with the local Marshallese community and with Pacific Islander communities both in the U.S. and abroad.
Through its Don W. Reynolds Institute on Aging and the Schmieding Center for Senior Health and Education, UAMS provides a number of geriatric community programs, including caregiver training, aging senior resource centers, continuing education in geriatrics, and certified nurse assistant training. UAMS is also partnered with Washington Regional Hospital and the Area Agencies on Aging of Northwest Arkansas to offer PACE (Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly), which is designed to help seniors access the care they need without giving up their independence and moving into nursing homes.
Through the Northwest Regional Campus, we bring the same exceptional care and education you know and expect from our main campus in Little Rock here close to home. Thank you for letting us help bring Northwest Arkansas to a better state of health.
We encourage you to not only learn more about our campus through this website but to also explore this link to the main UAMS campus in Little Rock: http://www.uams.edu/.