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UAMS reports improved finances, urges state backing for NCI cancer center bid
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UAMS Chancellor Cam Patterson told the Senate Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee that UAMS narrowed a projected 2018 deficit and is pursuing National Cancer Institute designation, seeking state and philanthropic support to expand access to clinical trials and cancer care across Arkansas.
Cam Patterson, chancellor of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, told the Senate Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee that UAMS has made significant financial progress and is seeking state support to pursue National Cancer Institute (NCI) designation.
Patterson said UAMS is the state’s only academic medical center and “70 percent of the practicing health care professionals in the state of Arkansas were educated at UAMS.” He told senators UAMS receives “over $90,000,000 a year in federal funding support” and reviewed the hospital’s recent…
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