The UAMS Health Women’s Center is located about two miles from the central campus in midtown Little Rock and serves as a one-stop, full-service health care center for women. The center opened in 2020 and offers care for routine and high-risk pregnancies along with prenatal classes, gynecology services, screening mammograms, genetic and nutritional counseling, and physical therapy.
Gynecology services include routine checkups, labs, ultrasounds and a uterine fibroid clinic. Specialized menopause care, genetic and nutritional counseling, along with behavioral health services and prenatal classes are also available.
UAMS hosts Arkansas’ only CenteringPregnancy Program, in which groups of women with similar due dates gather for extra prenatal care, education and support. The program began in Little Rock in 2018 and recently expanded to Northwest Arkansas and Madison and Phillips Counties.
The NICU at UAMS Medical Center in Little Rock has 58 private rooms that can accommodate 64 newborns. These private rooms allow staff to adjust light and noise levels to help reduce stress for babies and their families. Families are encouraged to stay with their babies as much as possible and can stay overnight in the baby’s room or in the Ronald McDonald Family Room on the NICU floor of the hospital. The neonatal intensive care unit is designed and equipped to care for infants as early as 22 weeks gestation. When parents are not able to be with their baby, they can use web-based cameras to view their baby through a secure website.
In September 2023, UAMS opened the UAMS Milk Bank, the first facility of its kind in Arkansas. Located near UAMS’ central campus in Little Rock, the Milk Bank helps ensure a ready supply of safe donor milk for sick and vulnerable infants in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) around the state, shortening the time it takes for regional hospitals to receive critical milk supplies and improving outcomes for babies.
In its first year, the program added 11 new milk depots around the state, bringing the total to 14 facilities where milk can be donated. The Milk Bank has received 192,000 ounces of donated milk and has distributed 16,356 bottles of milk to NICUs in Arkansas and 1,651 bottles to families of infants at home.