A cornerstone of the UAMS mission is to create comfort, hope and healing for our patients and their families. For that reason, every consideration is made to create an environment that is warm and welcoming.

In January 2009, UAMS opened a 540,000 square-foot expansion of the hospital. This new landmark is a testament to the world-class patient care, cutting edge research, quality education and broad-based services that epitomizes UAMS.

The hospital expansion includes expanded state-of-the-art technology, a new emergency/trauma center with heliport, larger critical care and intermediate care units, technologically advanced cardiovascular suites and a new parking deck connected directly to the hospital.

Naming Opportunities
While the new hospital is open, there are still multiple opportunities to designate areas in recognition of your generosity. Appropriate acknowledgement through plaques and signage provides recognition to you and those you choose to honor with the space.

Your generosity makes a positive impact on the lives of patients and students today and tomorrow. Many of the most technical areas of operations will not only benefit greatly from philanthropic support, but their very success depends on it.

Named opportunities in premier locations throughout the new facility are available for your consideration beginning at the $10,000 giving level. Gifts may be pledged over a five-year period.

A Prescription for Healing
The UAMS Medical Center strives to create a healing environment – one that offers sustenance and gives meaning to experience, one that nourishes patients, families and care givers. It is one that enables those who are suffering to transcend their pain by connecting to the transformative power of beauty and art, gaining comfort through this connection.

At UAMS, we are taking our medicine to the next level through an integration of this healing power of art and music initiative. Your partnership is essential to our ability to realize this goal. Help us create a unique health care experience for the hundreds of thousands who come through our doors each year in search of hope and healing.

Your support brings this much needed therapy to patients and helps us successfully create this healing environment. Stunning fine art, engaging tapestries, alluring sculptures, inspirational mobiles, and beautiful music – all brought together with one goal in mind – to enhance the mind, spirit and body as a healing force.

Healing Art

McKisic Creek by Harrington

Evening Exercises by McLeod

Beauty. Inspiration. Tranquility. Warmth. Stimulation. These are just a few things art brings to the human experience.

Art has the amazing ability to transform these typically sterile spaces into comfortable, more humane places that will nourish our sense of wellbeing, improve recuperation and boost staff morale.

Incorporating fine arts into the delivery of health care revitalizes clinical settings, rejuvenates patients and personnel and strengthens the holistic recovery process.

The acquisition of fine art is a major priority for UAMS. During the first phase of the new hospital opening, artwork will primarily be in the public spaces. The long-range plan includes sculpture in landscaped areas surrounding the building and water features.  By incorporating art into our hospital’s design, we seek to alleviate suffering and “fix” the body or mind by involving the soul.

Major health care institutions across the country have recognized the power of the arts to provide messages promoting healing and a sense of community. 

And when it comes to arts programming, staff in health care institutions have noted the following therapeutic effects in patients: lower stress levels, faster recovery times, reduced need for pain medications, fewer complications from surgery, increased comfort, and more social support.

Sponsorships of selected art pieces are available. Contact one of the development officers listed below for details.

Through your philanthropic support of the healing power of art, you are partnering with us in the achievement of our dream to shape the future of healthcare for both current and future generations. This is just the beginning.

Won’t you join us on our mission to provide comfort, hope and healing to our patients and families? Visit our online giving form today or contact a member of our development staff as listed below.

Healing Music
Science and medicine now recognize music as a powerful complementary healing agent. It summons the body’s own healing power, acts as a balm to reduce suffering of body and spirit and at life’s end is a companion that gives dignity to the final steps of the journey.

UAMS is proud to support a pilot project which sponsors a therapeutic musician that helps patients recover or relax. This pilot project was developed by George Hankins-Hull, director of Pastoral Care, and paid for with a grant from the UAMS Medical Center Auxiliary.

The therapeutic musician has eased cancer patients’ pain, comforted the seriously ill and helped a man undergoing a painful procedure. For all of our sophisticated medicine, it’s the body that does the healing.  This form of therapy transports patients into a serene state. One in which the patient does not have to focus on their illness.

There are several therapeutic music programs around the country. The profession has been around about 10 years, but this program is the first in Arkansas.
Visit our online giving form today or contact a member of our development staff as listed below.

Healing Garden 
We are committed to expanding the healing process even further by carving out devoted green spaces in which patients, family and staff alike can spend relaxing moments out in the fresh air and sunshine.

Our healing garden will offer a visual solace, a connection to nature, and a sense of peace. The spirit of the garden is growth and renewal, where one can feel connected instead of isolated.

Artist rendering of future rooftop garden.

We are currently working to develop design concepts for our healing garden initiative for the medical center.  Of first priority, our clinical programs and campus information technology staffs have collectively dedicated their philanthropic efforts toward the achievement of our rooftop garden. 

This special garden will be located on top of our south parking deck and will beautify the southern façade of the new hospital structure.  Visible to all UAMS visitors from the magnificent Joesphine Raye and Doyle W. Rogers Lobby, the Rooftop Garden will provide a much needed pedestrian corridor and haven just outside the hospital’s main doors.  

The focal point of this garden area will be a soothing water feature.  This important fixture will be dedicated to the clinical programs and information technology staffs in recognition of their generosity in taking comfort, hope and healing even beyond their normal roles as members of the UAMS family. Additional healing gardens will be included in our future plans.  

At UAMS, it's so important for us to do whatever we can to put our patients at ease. Nature heals the heart and soul which aids our physicians healing powers. According to the American Horticultural Therapy Association, the benefits of therapeutic garden environments have been understood since ancient times.

In the 19th century, Dr. Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and considered the "Father of American Psychiatry," asserted that garden settings hold curative effects for people with mental illness. Some benefits include reduced stress, lower blood pressure and exposure to vitamin D from the sun.

Our healing gardens will allow patients to escape their stress and pain. And the gardens will be an outlet for patient families as well as a retreat for weary patients.

Not only will our healing gardens beautify the hospital, they will serve as a buffer to keep the flow of traffic away from the hospital’s façade.

Funding for the UAMS Medical Center garden will only be possible with your support.  Help us create a haven, embraced by the natural world that encourages introspection, self-expression and creativity. A place of tranquility, energy and meditation. A place for relaxation, reflection and visualization.

Visit our online giving form today or contact a member of our development staff.

Contact Us
For more information regarding specific funding needs or naming opportunities, please contact one of the following members of our development team:

Cristy Sowell, Director of Development, UAMS Medical Center
501-526-5049 or chsowell@uams.edu

Sue Williamson, Senior Director of Development, Donor Development Programs
501-686-5675 or williamsonsues@uams.edu