University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine – Little Rock

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is one of the region’s major academic health centers, located in Little Rock, Arkansas, with outreach programs operating in every county and 8 regional campuses in the state. In addition to our hospital and clinics, UAMS includes five colleges and a graduate school, eight Area Health Education Centers, and seven institutes of excellence. In 2009, UAMS Medical Center completed a 540,000 square-foot expansion, which gives our teaching hospital a total of 434 beds — including 330 adult beds, 30 adult psychiatric beds, 10 pediatric psychiatric beds and 64 bassinets. We have a new emergency department, clinical lab and radiology department along with room to expand other services.