News

The following is a list of recent Summit Medical Center news articles that highlight our commitment to excellence. To read an entire article, please click on the news headline.

Summit Welcomes an Additional General Surgeon

Summit Medical Center welcomes Joe S. Padilla, Jr. M.D. Dr. Padilla is a Board Certified General Surgeon and is an Advanced Laparoscopic Surgeon. He is also trained for Gynecologic Surgery Pelvic Org...
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Associates Honored

Top Honors and Top Service were recognized at Summit Medical Center during the annual Christmas Party held in December.   Three Associates were recognized with the highest awards while three asso...
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Stroke Registry

Summit Medical Center is one of Forty-one (41) hospitals in Arkansas to join a collaborative effort to reduce the devastating impact of stroke in the state. In 2007, Arkansas ranked first in the...
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Summit Medical Center Helps Schools Beat Flu Causing “Bugs”

Summit Medical Center and its Pediatricians are helping keep the community healthy by donating hand sanitizer to all the schools in Crawford County.  With flu season around the corner, hand wa...
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New Doctor

Summit Medical Center announces the addition of Endocrinologist, Richard Sandler to its medical staff.   Dr. Sandler is joining Internal Medicine & Associates located on the hospital camp...
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Sue Conley, CEO

Summit Medical Center is pleased to have Sue Conley join the hospital’s staff as the new Chief Executive Officer.  Sue previously served as the Chief Operating Officer at Sparks Health...
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Fighting Breast Cancer

A business owner, wife, daughter, sister and aunt are all words to describe Barbara Kuykendall, and she is hoping to add breast cancer survivor to that list.  Kuykendall, 38, was diagnosed wit...
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Joint Commission Recognition

(Van Buren, Ark., Sept. 14, 2011) – Summit Medical Center today was named one of the nation’s top performers on key quality measures by The Joint Commission, the leading accreditor of h...
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Kelly Hubbard, Advanced Practice Nurse, Joins Summit Medical Center Occupational Medicine Clinic

Summit Medical Center continues to be dedicated to the local business and manufacturing community and their workers with the recent addition of Kelly Hubbard, APN.   Hubbard joins the O...
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Volunteer of the Year

For more than three decades, the 2011 Summit Medical Center Volunteer of the Year has given her time each week to greet and assist patients and visitors.    Peggy Lewis, a member of the...
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