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include the Community Clinic, Washington County Department of Health, Arkansas Children’s Hospital Northwest, and Boston Mountain Rural Health Clinic. UAMS believes that through this program Arkansas can reduce the maternal and child health disparities experienced by Marshallese over the next five years by 1) reducing preterm births by half, from 19% to 9.5%; 2) reducing the number of low birthweight infants from 15% to 8.5%; and 3) reducing the number of pregnant women who receive no prenatal care from 15% to less than 5%. Funding for the Jined ilo Kobo program is provided by local private foundations and a grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau Division of Healthy Start and Perinatal Services. For more information about the Jined ilo Kobo Health Start program, please email [email protected]. References 1. World Health Organization. Marshall Islands. World Health Organization;2011. 2. Arkansas Department of Health, Arkansas Vital Records Office. Unpublished birth records data: Arkansas resident births born to Marshallese mothers, 2009-2013. In. Little Rock, AR: Arkansas Department of Health; 2015. 3. Arkansas Department of Education Data Center. Springdale School District Enrollment by Race, 2016-2017. In. Little Rock, AR: Arkansas Department of Education; 2016. 4. McElfish P, Hallgren E, Yamada S. Effect of US health policies on health care access for Marshallese migrants. Am J Public Health. 2015;105(4):637-643. 5. United States Census Bureau. Profile of general population and housing characteristics: 2010, Benton County, Arkansas. In. Washington, DC: United States Census Bureau; 2010. 6. United States Census Bureau. Profile of general population and housing characteristics: 2010, Washington County, Arkansas. In. Washington, DC: United States Census Bureau; 2010. 7. Schempf A, Mendola P, Hamilton B, Hayes D, Makuc D. Perinatal outcomes for Asian, Native Hawaiian, and other Pacific Islander Mothers of single and multiple race/ ethnicity: California and Hawaii, 2003– 2005. American Journal of Public Health. 2010;100(5):877-887. 8. Hawley NL, Brown C, Nu'usolia O, Ah-Ching J, Muasau-Howard B, McGarvey ST. Barriers to adequate prenatal care utilization in American Samoa. Matern Child Health J. 2014;18(10):2284-2292. 9. Nembhard W, Ayers B, Shan X, et al. Adverse Pregnancy and Infant Outcomes among Migrant Women from the Marshall Islands2018, Forthcoming: Maternal and Child Health Journal. 10. 1Ayers BL, Purvis RS, Bing WI, et al. Structural and Socio-cultural Barriers to Prenatal Care in a US Marshallese Community. Matern Child Health J. 2018;22(7):1067-1076. For many clinics, group membership in the Arkansas Medical Society eliminates the hassle of individual renewal and reimbursement for physicians and accounts payable staff and provides EVERY physician with the invaluable resources of the largest and strongest Arkansas health care advocate. We invite groups of five or more physicians to take advantage of the AMS Group Memberaship Program. Our goal with this program is to be able to provide the practice management resources your practice needs and the advocacy that the physician needs in one group benefit. Thank you TO OUR 2020 AMS GROUP MEMBERS Arkansas Asthma and Allergy Arkansas Cardiology Arkansas Heart Hospital Arkansas Methodist Medical Center Associated Radiologists All for Kids Pedicatric Care Arkansas Otolaryngology Center Arkansas Pediatric Clinic Autumn Road Family Practice Arkansas Urology Bowen Hefley Rhodes Stewart Orthopedics CARTI Conway OBGYN Clinic, PA Community Physician’s Group Doctors’ Anatomic Pathology Services, PA GastroArkansas CHI St. Vincent Heart Clinic Arkansas Highlands Oncology Group Hot Springs Radiology Services Jacksonville Medical Care Johnson Dermatology Little Rock Family Practice Little Rock Pediatric Clinic Magnolia Regional Medical Center MANA Physicians St. Mary’s- Millard Henry Clinic Monticello Medical Clinic Mercy Obstetrics and Gynecology NEA Baptist Clinic Northwest Arkansas Pathology OrthoArkansas Ozark Orthopaedics Pain Treatment Centers of America Premier Dermatology Radiology Associates PA The Surgical Clinic of Central Arkansas Southern Regional Anesthesia UAMS Interested in your group joining this list? Contact Laura Haywood at [email protected] or 501-224-8967 for all the details. Volume 116 • Number 12 JUNE 2020 • 285