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Saint Mary’s Celebrates First Quarter DAISY Award Winners
March 20, 2025
Saint Mary’s Regional Health System is proud to announce the recipients of the first quarter DAISY Awards, recognizing excellence in nursing care and leadership. These awards honor nurses who demonstrate extraordinary clinical skill, compassion, and dedication to patients, families, and their colleagues. The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses celebrates nurses who...
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Honoring Our Hospitalist Team at Saint Mary’s
March 19, 2025
At Saint Mary’s Regional Health System, healing is more than a job—it’s a calling. No one understands that better than Dr. Ahmad Yousaf, Founder and CEO of Rock Medical Group—the dedicated team of hospitalists who care for patients at Saint Mary’s. In honor of National Hospitalist Day, observed earlier this month,...
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Celebrating Our Dedicated Team Members at the 2024 Service Award Banquet
March 11, 2025
At Saint Mary’s Regional Health System, we recently gathered to celebrate the incredible individuals who help bring our mission of making communities healthier® to life each and every day. During our 2024 Service Award Banquet, we proudly recognized employees celebrating milestone anniversaries of 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 years of dedicated...
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Colon Cancer Awareness Month: Understanding Your Colonoscopy
March 1, 2025
Have you had your colonoscopy? If you’re 45 or older, you’ve probably heard this question from someone you know – a doctor, a family member, or a health-conscious friend. More than 50,000 people die from colon cancer each year in the United States, and the disease may not have early...
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Saint Mary’s Introduces New Robotic-Assisted Surgical System
February 28, 2025
Saint Mary’s Regional Health System is excited to introduce the da Vinci Xi Surgical Robot, bringing robotic-assisted surgery to the River Valley. This addition expands surgical options for patients, offering a minimally invasive approach to various procedures with benefits such as smaller incisions, greater precision, and faster recovery times. The da...
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Saint Mary’s Earns Inpatient Quality Incentive Award
February 17, 2025
Saint Mary’s Regional Health System has been recognized by Arkansas Medicaid and the Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care (AFMC) as part of the annual Inpatient Quality Incentive (IQI) program. Saint Mary’s was honored for its dedication to the program for 10 or more years and its ongoing efforts to improve...
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National Heart Month: Building Healthy Habits for a Healthy Heart
February 11, 2025
February is American Heart Month – a time to celebrate all our hearts do for us, and to recognize what we can do to keep our hearts healthy. While the dangers of cardiovascular disease are real, the good news is that an estimated 80% of heart disease can be prevented....
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ER Nurse Carlee Minyard Sets New Stroke Care Record at Saint Mary’s
January 13, 2025
Saint Mary’s Regional Health System is proud to celebrate ER nurse Carlee Minyard’s remarkable achievement of a 17-minute door-to-treatment time for stroke care—a new record for the hospital. “Time is always my number one thought because millions of neurons are lost every second during a stroke,” Carlee shared. “When a patient...
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Labor and Delivery Nurse Betsy Hankins Commemorates New Life Through Art
January 8, 2025
For over two decades, Betsy Hankins, a labor and delivery nurse at Saint Mary’s, has lovingly created an annual artwork that records the names of every baby born at Saint Mary’s each year. This year, she proudly unveils her 25th commemorative board. Betsy has been a valued member of the Saint...
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Saint Mary’s ICU Receives DAISY Team Award for Outstanding Compassionate Care
December 18, 2024
Saint Mary’s Regional Health System is proud to recognize the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) as the recipient of our very first DAISY Team Award. This prestigious honor was awarded in recognition of the exceptional care and unwavering compassion shown to a patient and her family during a challenging and emotional...
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