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HEALTHCARE
Quality Healthcare Readily Available
Left: Baptist Health in Van Buren. Right: Baptist Health in Fort Smith. Photos courtesy John Speck
The River Valley benefits from their networks of clinics. to reduce wait times at emergency
having two major hospital systems, In recent years, both organizations rooms in the three hospitals.
Baptist Health and Mercy Health, have added specialists in fields such Baptist Health-Van Buren
serve the region. Each of the hospitals as cardiology, endocrinology and The Van Buren campus of Baptist
– Baptist Health in Van Buren and internal medicine to their existing Health is a 103-bed acute care
Fort Smith, and Mercy Fort Smith – pediatric and family medicine hospital and is fully accredited by the
provides a wide range of services, practices. Urgent care facilities in Joint Commission. The hospital has
including emergency and surgical Van Buren and nearby Fort Smith received Quality Improvement and
care, along with medical care through have also been added in an effort Innovator awards from the Arkansas
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