UAMS News Block
Add the UAMS News block to dynamically display the latest posts from one or more categories.
Format
Set the Format dropdown to select how the posts should be displayed in the block.
Available options:
- Headlines — Display a bulleted list of linked post titles.
- Excerpts — Display a vertical list of posts with featured images on the left, text content and link on the right.
- Cards — Display tiles for four posts with a vertical arrangement of their featured image, text content and link. The arrangement of these tiles will shift as the width of the viewport changes.
- Full — Display the entirety of first post in the defined category, including featured image and its caption.
- Grid — Display one post on the left with a featured image while displaying two posts on the right with smaller post titles. The arrangement of these posts will shift as the width of the viewport changes.
- Side-by-Side Image & Text — Display one post with its featured image on the left half of the block and its text content and link on the right half of the block. On larger viewport widths, the middle 42-69% of the image width will be visible (presuming the image is at a 16:9 aspect ratio). On smaller viewport widths, the layout will shift to having the featured image above the other content, and the image will display at a 16:9 aspect ratio.
Examples of these formats can be seen at the bottom of this article. The order of the examples reflects to the order of the list above.
Section Title
Enter a value in the Section Title field to define the heading that will be placed above the posts in this block. Note that not all Format options will display the section title on the page.
Capitalize the text in the heading according to the AP Style rules for composition titles.
Hide Section Title
Toggle the Hide Section Title input on if you want to hide the block’s heading on the page.
While you have the option to hide the block’s heading, it is rarely (if ever) recommended. Leaving it visible gives the user/reader a jumping-in point on your page. If you think you have a good reason to hide the heading, reach out to the web team before doing so.
Every instance of this block must have a heading, even if it is visually hidden. The heading is still used for accessibility and SEO purposes. This heading indicates what the following items have in common.
Category
Add a category slug or a string of category slugs to the Category input to find posts that are in any of the categories.
To find the slug for a category, go to the site’s dashboard, then Posts, then Categories. There should be a table with a list of categories. In that table is a column labeled Slug. Copy the slug value for the desired category and add that to the block’s Category input.
To add more than one category slug to the input, separate the slugs with a comma and a space (e.g., food, clothing).
Adding more than one category slug will expand the list rather than narrow it. If you defined Category value as food, clothing, the posts displayed would be from either the category with a slug of food or the category with a slug of clothing.
Count
Define how many posts should be displayed by adding a whole number to the Category input.
Note that some Format options have a predefined number of posts that will be displayed.
Offset
To configure the block to not display a certain number of the most recent posts, enter the value as a whole number in the Offset input.
This may be useful when combining two UAMS News blocks on a page, using the first block to display the one most recent post using the Side-by-Side Image & Text option in the Format input, then using a second block to display the posts older than that one by adding an Offset value of 1 and setting the Format value as Cards.
Background Color
See Backgrounds of UAMS Blocks for information on selecting a background color.
Hide Images
Some Format options will display the featured image for each post. If there is no featured image, a UAMS logo will be used as a replacement. Toggle on the Hide Images setting to suppress all images for this block.
Note that not all Format options will have the option to hide images.
Hide Author
Some Format options will display the author for each post. Toggle on the Hide Author setting to suppress the display of authors for this block.
Note that not all Format options will have the option to hide authors.
Hide Date
Some Format options will display the publish date for each post. Toggle on the Hide Date setting to suppress the display of publish dates for this block.
Note that not all Format options will have the option to hide publish dates.
Advanced Settings
Expand the Advanced accordion panel (near the bottom of the block) to reveal addition settings.
Including Local Posts
By default, the block only looks for posts on news.uams.edu. To also include posts from the site where the block is used, toggle on the Include Local option.
There is not currently an option only include local posts. The best option for that is to create categories on the site whose slugs do not match the slugs of categories on news.uams.edu.
Advanced Category
Add single category ID or a string of category IDs to the Advanced Category input to find posts that are in any of the categories.
To find the ID for a category, go to the site’s dashboard, then Posts, then Categories. There should be a table with a list of categories. Click the name of the desired category. The URL of this page should contain a URL parameter named tag_ID (e.g., .../wp-admin/term.php?taxonomy=category&tag_ID=123&post_type=post...). Copy the number value after tag_ID= but before & (e.g., 123 in the example above).
To add more than one category ID to the input, separate the IDs with a comma and a space (e.g., 123, 456).
Adding more than one category ID will expand the list rather than narrow it. If you defined Category value as 123, 456, the posts displayed would be from either the category with an ID of 123 or the category with an ID of 456.
To find posts that are in one category but not another (e.g., display posts that are in the Food category and are not also in the Red Things category), add a minus sign before the category ID that should be excluded (e.g., 123, -456)
Example UAMS News Block, Excerpts
Pedro Demeritte
Meet Pedro Demeritte, the university’s MVP for April, who is a pharmacy specialist and patient care technician in Stem Cell/Transplant.
Laura Riedinger
Meet Laura Riedinger, the university’s MVP for March and chaplain resident in UAMS Chaplain Services.
Becky Smith
Meet Becky Smith, the university’s MVP for February and a UAMS Health pharmacy specialist. In the course of her work, she puts into practice the UAMS culture of being polite, friendly, respectful, thoughtful, optimistic and compassionate.
Example UAMS News Block, Cards
Pedro Demeritte
Meet Pedro Demeritte, the university’s MVP for April, who is a pharmacy specialist and patient care technician in Stem Cell/Transplant.
Read more
Laura Riedinger
Meet Laura Riedinger, the university’s MVP for March and chaplain resident in UAMS Chaplain Services.
Read more
Becky Smith
Meet Becky Smith, the university’s MVP for February and a UAMS Health pharmacy specialist. In the course of her work, she puts into practice the UAMS culture of being polite, friendly, respectful, thoughtful, optimistic and compassionate.
Read more
MVP for January — Donna Malone
Meet Donna Malone, the MVP for January 2026. Malone is a registered nurse in Utilization Review. In the course of her work, she puts into practice the UAMS culture of being polite, friendly, respectful, thoughtful, optimistic and compassionate.
Read moreWant to read more stories like these?
UAMS Holds Topping Out Ceremony for Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine Hospital in Springdale
April 24, 2026 | FAYETTEVILLE — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) hosted a topping out ceremony today for the UAMS Health Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine Hospital, which will be the new home of world-class orthopaedic and sports medicine care providers serving Northwest Arkansas.
Attendees were invited to sign a beam, which was then hoisted by crane onto the building and set in place by Nabholz Construction Company.
Speakers included C. Lowry Barnes, M.D., UAMS chancellor; Ryan Cork, MHSA, vice chancellor of the UAMS Northwest Region; Wes Cox, M.D., section chief of UAMS Health’s orthopaedics and sports medicine team in Northwest Arkansas; Randy Lawson, chairman of the University of Arkansas Board of Trustees; and Doug Sprouse, mayor of the City of Springdale.
The 85,000-square-foot center will be located on about 30 acres in the four-mile stretch of I-49 on the city’s west side, commonly known as the Springdale Care Corridor.
The new facility will be the home in Northwest Arkansas for UAMS Health orthopaedic surgical care and will include exam rooms, operating rooms, and inpatient beds. The facility will also provide sports medicine care, sports performance training, physical therapy, and MRI, supplementing UAMS’ existing orthopaedic and sports performance clinics in the area.
Completion of the building is expected in spring 2027. The world-renowned Marlon Blackwell Architects designed the two-story building with input from Davis Stokes Collaborative Architects, P.C., who guided the design process from a health care perspective to ensure that all regulatory requirements and industry standards were met.
From the winding drive to plant-filled atriums and rooms imbued with natural light, the atmosphere will be open and inviting.
“This facility will represent a whole new patient experience,” Cox said. “We worked closely with the architects to create a health care space that is both welcoming and health-inducing. Our mission is to serve the community in Northwest Arkansas with a world-class, iconic destination for sports medicine and orthopaedics.”
What makes this project special, Barnes said, is its potential impact as a resource for the community.
“This facility will be an invaluable addition to Northwest Arkansas,” Barnes said. “This innovative surgical facility will accommodate patients’ needs for advanced orthopaedic surgical technology, as well as physical medicine and rehabilitation. The facility will enable us to offer a wide range of orthopaedic procedures, allowing for more personalized, efficient and effective care from Arkansas’ largest fellowship-trained orthopaedic team.”
According to Cork, the center’s goal is to serve patients in Northwest Arkansas and beyond.
“Northwest Arkansas is becoming a destination for patients across the country, and this hospital is the next step in that journey,” Cork said. “Our orthopaedic and sports medicine specialists have earned national and international recognition, and now they will have a home to match that reputation.”
And for Cox, this facility represents a vision brought to life.
“From concept to construction, we’ve always been focused first and foremost on what’s best for our patients,” Cox said. “The project’s vision is rooted in a simple, yet profound idea: medical facilities should heal not just the body but the mind and spirit as well. Ultimately, this is more than a building. It’s a model for human-centered health care design. It’s a space that recognizes healing as a holistic process.”
UAMS is the state’s only health sciences university, with colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Health Professions and Public Health; a graduate school; a hospital; a main campus in Little Rock; a Northwest Arkansas regional campus in Fayetteville; a statewide network of regional campuses; and eight institutes: the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute, Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, Psychiatric Research Institute, Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging, Translational Research Institute, Institute for Digital Health & Innovation and the Institute for Community Health Innovation. UAMS includes UAMS Health, a statewide health system that encompasses all of UAMS’ clinical enterprise. UAMS is the only adult Level 1 trauma center in the state. UAMS has 3,553 students and 1,015 medical residents and fellows. It is the state’s largest public employer with about 12,000 employees, including 1,200 physicians who provide care to patients at UAMS, its regional campuses, Arkansas Children’s, the VA Medical Center and Baptist Health. Visit www.uams.edu or uamshealth.com. Find us on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), YouTube or Instagram.###
Example UAMS News Block, Grid
Pedro Demeritte
Meet Pedro Demeritte, the university’s MVP for April, who is a pharmacy specialist and patient care technician in Stem Cell/Transplant.
Read moreLaura Riedinger
Meet Laura Riedinger, the university’s MVP for March and chaplain resident in UAMS Chaplain Services.
Read moreBecky Smith
Meet Becky Smith, the university’s MVP for February and a UAMS Health pharmacy specialist. In the course of her work, she puts into practice the UAMS culture of being polite, friendly, respectful, thoughtful, optimistic and compassionate.
Read moreWant to read more stories like these?