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UAMS Family Home

 UAMS Family Home
The family home offers a homelike
setting just across Markham Street
from the UAMS campus.


UAMS Family Home Great Room
The great room offers a warm
and cozy atmosphere for
meetings and social activities.

UAMS Family Home Bedrooms
The bedrooms are comfortable and designed for the special needs of our UAMS patients and families.

The UAMS Family Home is a private, non-profit facility at 4300 West Markham Street. It is owned by the board of Parents and Friends of Children and Adults, Inc. and their mission is "to operate a facility that will provide affordable lodging in a home-like setting for cancer patients and parents of premature infants being cared for at the UAMS Medical Center and to provide a cancer support center where education, fellowship and nurturing can take place in a supportive atmosphere."

The UAMS Family Home is a spacious 13,500 square foot house with two guest wings: one has a kitchen, laundry, and five bedrooms and baths for parents who have babies in the UAMS Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and the other has two kitchens, laundry and 10 bedrooms and baths for cancer patients and their caregivers. In addition to an office, conference room, meditation area, and manager's apartment, the home also includes the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Auxiliary Cancer Support Center comprised of a library, kitchen, activities room, covered porch and great room where functions for cancer patients are held.

In order to stay at the UAMS Family Home, cancer patients must be receiving out-patient treatment at the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute and must live outside a 50 mile radius of Little Rock. To stay in the neo-natal wing, parents must have a baby in the intensive care unit at UAMS. All guests must be referred by a social worker at the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute or the NICU. The cost to stay is $10 per night.

The UAMS Family Home is staffed by Sally Tanner, who oversees all daily operations, and Robin Dean, coordinator of the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Auxiliary Cancer Support Center.