Arkansas Childrens Medical Group Pllc

Programs: Acmg (the medical group) was formed to further the charitable healthcare mission of the integrated healthcare system of which arkansas children's, inc. Is the parent corporation, and which includes the following tax-exempt organizations: arkansas children's hospital, arkansas children's northwest, arkanas children's foundation, arkansas children's research institute, arkansas children's care network. Acmg will treat patients through care provided by its primary care and specialty physicians, including emergency department specialists, hospitalists, and pediatric primary care physicians, as well as other health practitioners, including physician assistants and advanced practice registered nurses (aprns). All of the physicians who practice at the medical group will be required to be on the medical staff and have admitting privileges at arkansas children's hospital and/or arkansas children's northwest. It is expected that initially, the medical group's primary activities will consist of treating patients at arkansas children's northwest and rounding on arkansas children's pediatric patients who are inpatients at other hospitals and healthcare facilities within and/or outside of the arkansas children's health system, in order to increase the quality of pediatric care, particularly for newborns. The medical group may expand its activities in the future, to potentially include some or all of the following activities:* treating patients at outpatient settings operated by arkansas children's northwest and/or arkansas children's hospital, such as off-site clinics or mobile units;* directly operating one or more outpatient medical offices or clinics; and* treating patients via telemedicine. Through the foregoing activities, acmg will address the significant community need for increased access to and improved quality of pediatric healthcare in arkansas. In northwest arkansas, the medical group will work in conjunction with arkansas children's northwest, and elsewhere in the state it may provide highly trained primary care and specialty physicians and other healthcare professionals to treat pediatric patients, with a particular focus on newborn babies. Northwest arkansas and other regions within arkansas currently lack sufficient pediatric specialty healthcare services, resulting in care increasingly being provided by physicians who treat adults and who lack expertise and experience in pediatric care, and patients needing to seek treatment from out-of-state physicians with relevant expertise. Further, the region is experiencing population growth, particularly in the number of children, which is projected to only increase in the coming years. The medical group will provide material support for the efforts of arkansas children's northwest efforts to expand the availability of and access to high quality pediatric healthcare services in the outpatient care setting in northwest arkansas in the coming years. The community need in northwest arkansas is made particularly acute given the fact that a significant percentage of children (some estimate at least 1 in 4 children) in northwest arkansas live in poverty, and an even greater number live in low income households. Children raised in poverty have poorer health outcomes than other children, generally being sick for longer periods and less likely to receive quality healthcare or preventative care. One of the particular challenges to addressing the healthcare needs of children in northwest arkansas is that a large number of primary care pediatricians in the area are not accepting new medicaid patients. The medical group will help expand the pediatric healthcare services available to medicaid and indigent youth and address the unique healthcare and related needs of this population.