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UAMS gets $600K donation to provide post-partum contraceptives

The money will be used to provide long-acting reversible contraception devices for uninsured post-partum patients in Little Rock and Fort Smith.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — UAMS has a received a $600,000 gift from an anonymous donor to provide long-acting reversible contraception devices for uninsured post-partum patients in Little Rock and Fort Smith.

The devices and birth-control implants are inserted before a patient is discharged from a hospital after giving birth to reduce unintended pregnancies and increase birth spacing, UAMS said in a news release.

Insertions can cost more than $3,000 and aren’t currently reimbursable by the state Medicaid program.

To read more about the grant, visit our content partners at Arkansas Business here.

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