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OUR INITIATIVES
 
 
 
 
HEALTH PROMOTION & DISEASE PREVENTION
 
Tobacco Prevention & Cessation
 
Combating Childhood & Adolescent Obesity
 

Link to ArCOP website: www.arkansasobesity.org

 

State Employee Health Risk Assessments & Wellness Strategy

 

Vehicular Safety

 
 
HEALTH CARE FINANCING
 

2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

ARHealthNetworks
State Coverage Institute
Governor's  Roundtable on Health Care
Navigating the Landscape of Health Care (2005-2015)
 
 
ACCESS TO QUALITY CARE
 

State Employee Health Care Quality and Health Disparities

Health Information Security and Privacy Collaboration
 
 
HEALTH DATA TO SUPPORT ACTIVITIES
Arkansas Health Data Initiative (HDI)
Data Resources
Informing the Legislative Process
 
   
 

News

Many people across the state are working to proactively shape the future of our health system including undertaking important activities to improve the health payment system, strategically plan for a future health workforce, implementing statewide use of health information technology and planning for the health benefits exchange. You can find more information here. 

 

 

Health System Workforce Initiative

The Arkansas Center for Health Improvement has been asked to provide primary staffing to Dr. Dan Rahn, Chancellor, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, and Dr. Paul Halverson, State Health Director, Arkansas Department of Health, for a Health System Workforce Initiative. The goal is to respond to a directive from Governor Mike Beebe to advance a transformational strategic plan for the Arkansas health workforce. The strategic plan will describe options and recommendations for Arkansas’s optimal health workforce, uses of technology, and navigation and coordination of care. It will provide a roadmap for health and workforce-related entities throughout the state, and will recommend approaches to workforce education, training, development, recruitment, retention, incentives, distribution, coordination and structure.  The final product will be the Arkansas Health Workforce Strategic Plan, which will be delivered to Governor Mike Beebe by January 31, 2012. More information including taskforce members, meeting schedule, work products and resources.  This is one component of a major initiative overseen by Dr. Joe Thompson to proactively shape the future of our health care system to better meet the needs of Arkansans. 

 

Periodic stakeholder meetings will be open to the public and input will be sought on a variety of issues pertaining to Arkansas's health system.  Please use the stakeholder comment form if you have an idea or opinion you want considered by one of the taskforces.

 

                                                                                 

 

 

Archives

Despite Industry Promises, Yale Study Finds Unprecedented Marketing of Sugary Drinks to Youth

 

Arkansas Surgeon General, Dr. Joe Thompson, to host Summit -- Building a Better Arkansas Health System for the 21st Century

 

New Tool Kit Available for Local Officials from Let's Move Cities & Towns 

 

Diabetes kills one person every seven seconds

 

Dr. Thompson and Arkansas Education Commissioner, Dr. Tom Kimbrell, Celebrate Successful Joint Use Agreement Projects

 

Lavaca School District FIRST Arkansas USDA Healthier US Challenge, NATIONAL BRONZE AWARD SCHOOL (May 4, 2011)

 

Governor Mike Beebe Signs New Law Protecting Children Under Age 14 From Secondhand Smoke While Riding in Vehicles

 

Health Care Providers Discuss Medicaid Cost Saving Measures

 

Arkansas Tobacco Settlement Commission Awards Child Wellness Intervention

Grants to Schools

 

Dr. Thompson Joins Forces with Arkansas Coalition for Obesity Prevention to Discuss Obesity Prevention with Arkansas Mayors

 

Center for Studying Health Systems Change Releases New Report

 

Arkansas Tobacco Settlement Commission Now Taking Applications For School Grants

 

National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month Celebrated with Focus on Physical Activity

 

Arkansas Coalition for Obesity Prevention (ArCOP) Now Accepting Applications for Growing Healthy Communities Grants

 

ACHI Director, Dr. Joe Thompson, participates in panel discussion with American Cancer Society Mid-South Division

 

ACHI Executive Associate Director Named Assistant Dean at UAMS College of Public Health

 

Arkansas Minority Health Summit Includes Former U.S. Surgeons General

 

U.S. Surgeon General, Dr.  Regina Benjamin, Visits ACHI

 

Dr. Joe Thompson Blogs About the Recent White House Obesity Summit on EquityBlog.

 

Arkansas Baptist College Hosts Minority Health Month and Public Health Week News Conference

 

North Little Rock Celebrates Public Health Week at Location of New Argenta Market

 

Delta Garden Study Breaks Ground

 

Arkansas Tobacco Settlement Commission Joins the Movement to Reverse Childhood Obesity

 

ACHI Director Appears on C-SPAN's Washington Journal.

 

State Coverage Initiatives Reports Release of New Brief On Impact of

Health Reform on States

 

Michelle Obama to Fight Child Obesity at Grass Roots

 

Boone and Newton Counties Receive One of 41 Community Grants From the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities Initiative.

 

Arkansas to Participate in Safe Routes to School National Partnership's 2010-2011 State Network Project

 

ACHI Honors Long-Time Friends and Welcomes New Annual Sponsor During

Annual Holiday Party

 

Senator Blanche Lincoln Discusses Health Care Reform with Governor's

Roundtable on Health Care

 

ACHI's Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity

Hosts Healthy Kids, Healthy Nation: Reversing the Childhood Obesity Epidemic

by 2015

 

ACHI Releases New Report:  The Impact of National Health Care Reform on Arkansas

 

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

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Victory Building
Little Rock, AR 72201

 

Ph: 501-526-ACHI
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