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HEALTHCARE

Healthcare Options Abundant

Left: Baptist Health in Van Buren. Right: Baptist Health in Fort Smith. Photos courtesy John Speck
The River Valley benefits from having a comfortable setting when they need it Baptist Health-Fort Smith
two major hospital systems, Baptist most. Baptist Health-Fort Smith is a 492-
Health and Mercy Health, serve the Baptist Health-Van Buren also bed acute care facility located at 1001
region. Each of the hospitals – Baptist partners with New Vision – a medical Towson Avenue. It operates a 24-hour
Health in Van Buren and Fort Smith, stabilization program – to help emergency room, cancer care center,
and Mercy Fort Smith – provides a wide local residents begin the process of and houses offices for specialty practices
range of services, including emergency overcoming addictions to opioids and/ including ENGT (Ear, Nose, and
and surgical care, along with medical or alcohol safely. Throat), robotics surgery, neuroscience,
care through their networks of clinics.
In recent years, both organizations
have added specialists in fields such as
cardiology, endocrinology and internal
medicine to their existing pediatric and
family medicine practices. Urgent care
facilities in Van Buren and nearby Fort
Smith have also been added in an effort
to reduce wait times at emergency
rooms in the three hospitals.
Baptist Health-Van Buren
The Van Buren campus of Baptist
Health is a 103-bed acute care hospital
and is fully accredited by the Joint
Commission. The hospital has received
Quality Improvement and Innovator
awards from the Arkansas Foundation
for Medical Care and offers a wide
range of inpatient, imaging, laboratory,
rehabilitation and emergency services.
Throughout the Van Buren facility,
located at 211 Crawford Memorial
Drive, visitors will find the staff places
a great emphasis on customer service.
The Emergency Department strives to
ensure all patients are seen in a timely
manner. Its goal is to provide patients
and their families with exceptional care in
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