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UAMS is the largest public employer in the state with more than 10,000 employees. As of fall 2015, UAMS had 3,021 students, including 694 medical students, 475 in the College of Pharmacy, 781 in the College of Nursing, 662 in the College of Health Professions, 180 in the College of Public Health and 229 in the Graduate School.
There was a 74% surge in employees requesting leave or accommodations for mental health-related issues over the past year, according to a new report from Littler, an employment and labor law company.
Roughly 74% of American employees feel it should be appropriate to talk about mental health concerns at work, according to a new report from the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), an ...
Although UAMS Medical Center (also known as University of Arkansas Medical Center) was founded in 1879, no patients were admitted or treated at the facility until 1892. [8] What started as a free clinic later evolved into an entity known only as City Hospital when UAMS moved their campus just outside downtown Little Rock in 1935. [8]
Equipping managers with the skills they need to talk about and provide support for employees on mental-health issues is also important. 70% of managers or executives had not received training to ...
The Mental Health Parity Act (MHPA) is legislation signed into United States law on September 26, 1996 that requires annual or lifetime dollar limits on mental health benefits to be no lower than any such dollar limits for medical and surgical benefits offered by a group health plan or health insurance issuer offering coverage in connection with a group health plan.
The National Institute of Mental Health ( NIMH) is one of 27 institutes and centers that make up the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NIH, in turn, is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and health -related research.
But a new report has found that this laser focus on benefits is actually hurting employers, who are failing to come up with better solutions when it comes to improving employee mental health. One ...