Since the 2003-04 school year, ACHI has been analyzing and reporting on public school students’ body mass index (BMI) measurements and weight status to study trends. Recently, our focus has shifted to identifying individual and neighborhood-level characteristics associated with childhood obesity. We also study how weight status in young children changes as children get older. The goal of this research is to help guide the development of public policies to combat the childhood obesity epidemic.
In response to the opioid epidemic, the Arkansas General Assembly passed Act 651 of 2021, which requires a co-prescription of naloxone in certain situations for a person who does not have an existing prescription. The law was preceded by Act 284 of 2017, which authorized pharmacists to order, dispense, and administer naloxone to individuals without a prescription under a state protocol.
This map depicts the locations of rural hospital closures between January 2010 and May 2019 in Arkansas and in neighboring states that have not expanded Medicaid.
This document contains ACHI’s public comment on Arkansas’s waiver application for Arkansas Health and Opportunity for ME, or ARHOME, an overhaul of the state’s Medicaid expansion program. ACHI submitted the comment on July 12, 2021.
The federal 340B Drug Pricing Program requires prescription drug manufacturers to provide drugs to certain healthcare organizations at heavily reduced prices as a condition of having their products covered by Medicaid.
