Arkansas lawmakers consider shifting funds from health care data hub to UAMS midwifery program • Arkansas Advocate
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- April 24, 2024
- andrew collins
- appropriations
- Arkansas Center for Health Improvement
- arkansas medicaid
- Dan Sullivan
- Denise Garner
- fiscal session
- health insurance
- jimmy hickey
- Joe Thompson
- Joint Budget Committee
- Mary Bentley
- maternal health
- medical education
- midwives
- pregnancy resource center
- reproductive health
- UAMS
An Arkansas legislative panel on Tuesday approved diverting funds from a state health care data hub to start a midwifery education program at the state’s largest medical school. Rep. Mary Bentley, R-Perryville, proposed removing the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement from a section of a University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences appropriations bill and rewriting […]
Read MoreArkansas lawmakers advance proposal to double state-funded pregnancy resource center grant • Arkansas Advocate
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- April 18, 2024
- arkansas department of finance and administration
- Arkansas department of human services
- arkansas medicaid
- Clarke Tucker
- crisis pregnancy centers
- Denise Garner
- faith-based organizations
- grants
- infant mortality
- john payton
- Joint Budget Committee
- maternal health
- maternal mortality
- nicole clowney
- postpartum
- Pregnancy
- pregnancy resource center
- prenatal
- reproductive health
- Sarah Huckabee Sanders
- Trend – Abortion
An Arkansas legislative panel on Thursday approved the doubling of a taxpayer-funded grant to support pregnancy resource centers, which are often religiously affiliated and discourage abortion while encouraging birth. Republican leaders statewide have held up pregnancy resource centers as critical since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022 and Arkansas subsequently […]
Read MoreU.S. HHS Secretary asks Arkansas to re-enroll Medicaid-eligible children who lost coverage
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- December 19, 2023
- Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
- Arkansas department of human services
- arkansas medicaid
- ARKids
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- children
- COVID-19
- health care
- health coverage
- kristi putnam
- medicaid
- medicaid eligibility
- medicaid unwinding
- public health emergency
- Sarah Huckabee Sanders
- tanf
- u.s. department of health and human services
- Xavier Becerra
Arkansas’ removal of thousands of children from Medicaid coverage this year has raised concerns with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, according to a Monday letter from the department secretary to Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders. In Arkansas, 78,506 fewer children were enrolled in Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in September […]
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