Company Profile
Arkansas Children's Hospital
Company Overview
Arkansas Children's Hospital is the only pediatric medical center in Arkansas and one of the largest in the United States serving children. The campus spans 29 city blocks and houses 370 beds, a staff of approximately 500 physicians, 80 residents in pediatrics and pediatric specialties and more than 4,400 employees. The private, nonprofit healthcare facility boasts an internationally renowned reputation for medical breakthroughs and intensive treatments, unique surgical procedures and forward-thinking medical research - all dedicated to fulfilling our mission of enhancing, sustaining and restoring children's health and development. Our physicians are consistently recognized for their outstanding performance and achievement in taking care of our young patients. Doctors from Arkansas Children's Hospital are consistently listed on Best Doctors and Top Doctor lists locally and nationally.
ACH serves as the pediatric teaching affiliate of UAMS and is home to the Department of Pediatrics. ACH is the classroom where medical students study the pediatric component of all disciplines. In turn, UAMS shares its current medical breakthroughs and technological advancements. UAMS faculty on the ACH campus are practicing physicians as well as teachers to UAMS students in medicine, nursing, pharmacy and allied health.
Sports Medicine Plus:
Care Provided:
Promotes health and fitness through sports participation while minimizing effects of injury
Multidisciplinary approach for health maintenance, exercise, injury prevention, treatment and rehabilitation
Sports Rehabilitation Clinic
Outpatient program in collaboration with the ACH Adolescent Center with the goal of decreasing incidence of injuries through prevention and pre-participation screenings
Provides rehabilitation to the injured athlete in order to ensure safe return to play
Company History
“Arkansas Children’s Hospital first opened in February of 1912 as the Arkansas Children’s Home Society, providing shelter, warm meals and health care to the state’s neediest children. The facility moved to Morrilton in 1913 before returning to its roots and current location in Little Rock in the 1920s. On its first day with an operating hospital as part of the home in 1926, ACH had just two beds. In the years to come it would prosper based on gifts from the community and the dedication of a small group of individuals who always had the needs to Arkansas’ children in mind. In 1954 the Board of Trustees agreed to change the name of the institution to Arkansas Children’s Hospital, and in 1969 the hospital forged an official affiliation agreement with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences so the hospitals could work together to provide treatment for patients and education to students, interns and resident physicians. Today, ACH is among the nation’s largest children’s hospitals, with comprehensive air and ground emergency transport, a record-setting heart transplantation program and subspecialty services in multiple parts of the state.”