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• Arkansas Health Care Independence Act of 2013

ACHI was envisioned as an organization dedicated to change—change that leads to improved health for all Arkansans. While we have made positive strides in changing Arkansas’s health environment, our work is far from finished. Ongoing activities as well as historical successes are described in Our Work.

As our nation and state undergo dramatic and rapid shifts, ACHI is committed to adapting to these changing opportunities and challenges and works to keep you up to date on the latest news and events that impact the health of Arkansans. Please visit our News & Events page for the most recent information that affects our policy work.

ACHI’s activities are centered in three Areas of Focus that influence the health of Arkansans—disease prevention health promotion, access to quality care, and health care financing—with supporting infrastructure of health data and research.

Links to our numerous policy issue briefs, reports, and research briefs, along with tools for those working to combat childhood obesity can be found in the Resource Library.

Latest News

• Arkansas Makes Health Care Exchange Honor Roll
  

  HealthLeaders-InterStudy's Exchange Report Card rating system has evaluated the Arkansas Health Insurance Marketplace recognizing it as one of the top four in the nation. Other states making the honor roll are Connecticut, Kentucky and Washington -- all operating a state-based marketplace. Arkansas is the only state-federal partnership exchange to make the list.

• CDC Release: New guidance limits antibiotics for common infections in children
  

  Among the first episodes of care implemented one year ago as part of the Arkansas Payment Improvement Initiative is treatment of upper respiratory infection (URI). A key source of value addressed through the URI episode model is appropriate prescribing of antibiotics to treat upper respiratory infections such as the common cold. Since most URIs are viral infections and antibiotics do not work to cure them, movement toward decreased antibiotic prescribing rates has improved. . . read more

• Mansfield School District in Arkansas Receives USDA Farm to School Grant
  

  Mansfield joins USDA's nationwide Farm to School program, part of the Healthy, Hunder-Fee Kids Act, designed to provide grants and technical assistance to help schools gain better access to local foods.

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