Health Care Professionals

Health care professionals in Arkansas and nationwide face numerous challenges — geographic, economic and educational barriers to patient care; staying up-to-the-minute on the latest standards of care; and keeping up with changing policies, paperwork and payor requirements, to name just a few. And all while serving a growing and increasingly diverse patient population.

Because many of us are current or former clinicians and health care professionals, AFMC understands. We are here as a resource for you and the communities you serve — helping you navigate the Medicare and Medicaid systems; providing information about national standards of care; and offering free tools, such as posters, brochures, chart stickers and fact sheets, that can make patient and staff education and communication easier and more effective.

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Feature Story

Kids are heading back to school – that means it’s vaccine time!

J. Gary Wheeler, MD

Back-to-school physicals are a great opportunity for physicians to update patients on their immunizations. But this task becomes more daunting each year. The vaccine schedule continues to become more crowded, and more groups of patients become candidates for vaccination. Read on…