Posted on 6/26/2026 The Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for the Healthy Eating, Active Recreation, and Transformation (HEART) initiative is now officially live on the Arkansas Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP) portal.
Posted on 4/11/2025 The Arkansas Department of Health (ADH) has reported two confirmed pediatric measles cases in unvaccinated Arkansas residents, one from Saline County and one from Faulkner County.
Posted on 1/26/2024 The Arkansas Legislative Council approved four more applications for Emergency Aid Relief to Hospitals from the American Rescue Plan Act funds distributed to Arkansas...
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Posted on 7/14/2023 As part of the CDC's ongoing efforts to make information on COVID-19 readily available and easier to find, especially as we enter the fall respiratory virus season, the organization has launched a new COVID-19 website...
Posted on 7/14/2023 This week, the Arkansas Department of Human Services (DHS) reported updated figures reflecting the third month of redeterminations as part of its six-month effort to unwind the Medicaid rolls...
Posted on 6/9/2023 On May 22, 2023, Janssen Biotech, Inc. requested the voluntary withdrawal of the emergency use authorization (EUA) of the Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine...
Posted on 6/2/2023 CMS released regulatory changes to the COVID-19 health care staff vaccination requirements and long-term care facility testing requirements...
Posted on 6/2/2023 Now that the PHE has ended, negative COVID-19 test results no longer need to be reported to the Arkansas Department of Health (ADH)...
Posted on 5/12/2023 The revised infection prevention guidelines continue to recommend universal masking under specific circumstances, including in work units or areas of a facility experiencing a COVID-19 outbreak.
Posted on 5/12/2023 Resources for hospitals at the close of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency.
Posted on 5/5/2023 After the COVID-19 public health emergency ends on May 11, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will use COVID-19-associated hospital admission levels as the primary indicator ...
Posted on 4/25/2023 The FDA amended the emergency use authorizations (EUAs) of the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 bivalent mRNA vaccines to simplify the vaccination schedule ...
Posted on 4/25/2023 The FDA has announced that health care providers without alternative options may continue to use a certain version of the O&M Halyard FLUIDSHIELD Surgical N95 Respirator Mask for fluid barrier protection if they wear a face shield ...
Posted on 3/17/2023 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration this week amended the emergency use authorization (EUA) of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, Bivalent to provide for a single booster dose of the vaccine in children 6 months through 4 years of age at least 2
Posted on 3/17/2023 In other COVID-19 vaccine news, the Janssen "COVID-19 Vaccine Fact Sheet for Healthcare Providers Administering Vaccine (Vaccination Providers)" was revised to include a warning conveying that reports of adverse events following use of the vaccine ..
Posted on 3/10/2023 A roundup of the week's news related to COVID-19 ...
Posted on 2/3/2023 A roundup of the week's news related to COVID-19 ...