Arkansas Foundation

Arkansas Foundation, known as AFMC, is a nonprofit that works to raise the quality of health and health care in Arkansas. Over a 50-year history it has grown from health care work into contact centre, events and communications services for other sectors. Its staff of about 300 carry out education, outreach, data analysis and case review.

What Arkansas Foundation does

• ConnectCare: an Arkansas Medicaid programme helping Medicaid and ARKids First families find a primary care doctor and dentist.
• Medicaid provider services: support and quality improvement work for providers in the state programme.
• Contact centre services: call centre operations delivered for clients in various industries.
• Events: hybrid, virtual and in-person event hosting.
• Health communications: AFMC TV, a weekly show with health experts, plus marketing and outreach.
• Health programmes: work on rural opioid response, substance abuse coalitions and HIV/AIDS stigma research.

Clients

It serves health care providers, Medicaid members and families in Arkansas, and more recently organisations outside health care.

Key facts

• Based in: Arkansas, USA
• Type: nonprofit organisation
• History: around 50 years
• Team: about 300 staff