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Medical Center of South Arkansas (MCSA) has announced the implementation of their new telemedicine services allowing patients and hospital based healthcare providers to connect to physicians specializing in pulmonology, neurology and cardiology. Expanded telemedicine services means that patients will receive rapid high quality specialty care close to home. This new technology allows MCSA’s team to connect with board-certified physicians via secure, high-resolution technology in minutes of a patient arri... ... Read More

El Dorado, AR – Medical Center of South Arkansas announced that Jordan Thurman, RN has been selected to receive their National Nursing Excellence Award. Jordan was chosen from among more than 27,000 nurses from across the United States. The National Nursing Excellence Award was created in honor of 2020 being the “Year of the Nurse,” and in recognition of the critical role nurses have played in treating patients throughout the COVID pandemic. The award was open to qualifying RNs and LPNs working in a dir... ... Read More

For the second year in a row, Medical Center of South Arkansas has been named one of the Best Places to Work in Arkansas by Arkansas Business. This survey and awards program was designed to identify, recognize and honor the best employers in Arkansas, benefiting the state’s economy, workforce and businesses. 47 companies in Arkansas were chosen for this honor; including only four other hospital systems. Medical Center of South Arkansas is over 700 team members strong and attributes the power of people t... ... Read More

El Dorado, AR October 26, 2020- Medical Center of South Arkansas has been recognized by the National Safe Sleep Hospital Certification Program as a silver level designation because of their commitment to best practices and education on infant safe sleep. The National Safe Sleep Hospital Certification Program was created by Cribs for Kids®, the only national infant safe sleep organization. Cribs for Kids is dedicated to preventing infant sleep-related deaths due to accidental suffocation. As a Nationally... ... Read More

(El Dorado, AR, October 26, 2020) Medical Center of South Arkansas Auxiliary volunteer Liz McKay has been named Arkansas Hospital Auxiliary Association Auxilian of the Year. Liz served as MCSA Auxiliary President from July 2019 to September 2020 and has now assumed the role of Auxiliary Director of Volunteers. She joined the MCSA Auxiliary in 2015 and has given 5 years of outstanding service. As President, she steered many initiatives for the MCSA Auxiliary including establishing a new and innovative wo... ... Read More

(El Dorado, AR), October 23, 2020. Medical Center of South Arkansas just wrapped up their 2020 United Way of Union County Campaign and is excited to announce a donation of $28,745 to the United Way. Their campaign included an internal fair share payroll campaign, silent auction, and Cajun cookout. “Medical Center of South Arkansas would like to thank all of our team members who stepped up in a big way to fundraise for the United Way. We are committed to investing in our community and doing our part to g... ... Read More

(El Dorado, AR, September 22, 2020) Dr. Ezinne Nwude, Medical Center of South Arkansas Hospitalist and Chief of Staff received this year’s Excellence in Leadership Award from SCP Health during the organization’s annual Medical Leadership Conference. Dr. Nwude was chosen for this award out of over 420 medical leaders around the Nation because of her consistent demonstration of superior leadership, excellence, and proven results. Dr. Nwude has worked at Medical Center of South Arkansas as a Hospitalist si... ... Read More

EL DORADO, AR. July 28, 2020 ― Medical Center of South Arkansas has received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke Gold Quality Achievement Award. The award recognizes the hospital’s commitment to ensuring stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines based on the latest scientific evidence. Medical Center of South Arkansas earned the award by meeting specific quality achievement... ... Read More

El Dorado, AR (October 2019) – Althea Conley, M.D., has joined the Medical Center of South Arkansas Medical Withdrawal Management Program as medical director. Dr. Althea Conley has been practicing psychiatry in South Arkansas for over 20 years. Dr. Conley graduated from medical school at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, Arkansas. She is a member of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Ad... ... Read More

(El Dorado, AR, December 2, 2019) Medical Center of South Arkansas Inpatient Rehab has acquired two new pieces of therapy equipment with electrical stimulation technology for treatment of patients recovering from accident or illness. MCSA will use this new equipment as the standard of care in rehabilitation therapy for many neurological conditions such as spinal cord injury, stroke, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy and brain injury to support positive therapeutic outcomes. Shelby Cater, MCSA director ... ... Read More