We make health information easy to understand and use.
03/04/2025
Read about our partnership with UNTHSC Division of Academic Innovation to create our health insurance module, "Insured and Informed: Your Health Insurance Guide." Learn more about this module and others by visiting our website: healthliteracy.uams.edu/our-products/online-modules/
12/05/2024
We are excited and incredibly grateful to announce that Insured and Informed: Your Health Insurance Guide has won GOLD at the Fall 2024 Digital Health Awards in the Interactive Content/Rich Media category! 🏆✨
This recognition reflects the hard work, creativity, and passion of our entire team. From the start, our goal has been to make health insurance easier to understand, more accessible, and more empowering for everyone—and this award shows that we’re making a meaningful impact. 🙌💙
Thank you to the Digital Health Awards for this honor and to everyone who has supported our journey. We’re committed to continuing to innovate and deliver meaningful, user-friendly solutions to help people navigate their health care journeys with confidence.
12/03/2024
As we celebrate 10 years of advancing health literacy, we’re grateful for friends like Jamie Watson, PhD, once a member of our team and now a clinical ethicist with the Cleveland Clinic. Collaborating with leaders like Jamie has strengthened our mission to promote ethical health communication.
Jamie’s expertise and dedication to supporting patients and health care teams reflect the values we strive to uphold every day. Thank you, Jamie, for being a part of this journey and for contributing to the work that drives us forward.
Here’s to continuing this important partnership and making a lasting impact together.
11/15/2024
We are so grateful to have the opportunity to work alongside incredible partners for the last 10 years, like Allie Staton at ImmunizeAR. Her dedication to improving the health and well-being of our community is truly inspiring.
Allie’s impact is felt every day, and we’re honored to be a part of the important work she does. Thank you, Allie, for your passion, your leadership, and your commitment to making a difference!
We look forward to continuing this journey together and supporting the amazing work you do for those around us. 🙌💙
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11/01/2024
As Health Literacy Month comes to a close, CHL is proud to restate our commitment to clear communication! Our emphasizes the importance of using plain language to empower everyone on their health journey. Together, we’re making health information accessible and understandable for all. Here’s to continuing our mission! 💙✨
10/16/2024
CHL team member Anita Bucur presented to the new clinical new hires at UAMS. Together, they chose to take the for Health Literacy Month.
10/09/2024
Tomorrow is the big day! Click on this link tomorrow and show your support for health literacy! give.uams.edu/PlainPledge
Are you Reddie? It’s time to and celebrate UAMS on its top fundraising day of the year.
Our 24-hour clock will start tomorrow (10.10) at 6 am, and we hope to count you among our wonderful supporters!
Don’t want to wait? Make your gift early at dayofgiving.uams.edu.
10/07/2024
If you are at UAMS this Day of Giving (10.10.24), stop by the CHL birthday party 🎉! Grab a sweet treat, take the 📢, and celebrate a decade of making health information easy to understand and use with us!
Be sure to follow the instructions in our post and take the to enter our exciting drawing!
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09/26/2024
Do you give out written health information to patients or community members? Have you had materials formally vetted by plain language writers to ensure they are easy to read, understand, and use? When health information is hard it can lead to poor patient outcomes. Let our team review your materials to make sure the people you serve can get the most from them. Visit PlainPages.org to submit your materials today!
People are working hard to decide what health information is trustworthy and credible. Making yours easy to read and understand could help you build trust with your audience and encourage people to come to you when they need help with their health. Our team is available to help you create readable, understandable, and actionable content via our plain language services available on PlainPages.org.
09/23/2024
There’s still time left to join our Challenge and be entered to win a prize! And don’t forget to for the on 10.10.24 for more ways to support CHL, , and celebrate !
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Can you ?
Three crochet Reddies will be hidden on the UAMS - University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Main campus on , 10.10.2024. Whoever finds these special dots can bring them to the UAMS headquarters (Hospital Lobby Gallery) to designate additional Day of Giving funds for your area of choice.
Keep the Reddie and snap a pic! Tag us UAMS Giving, UAMS Alumni Association
Get the latest updates at dayofgiving.uams.edu.
09/16/2024
We are so honored to have been chosen as a featured unit for the UAMS Day of Giving! See more below about how you can support CHL and on 10.10.24.
09/12/2024
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09/10/2024
đź“Ł CHL was chosen as 1 of 5 featured units for the UAMS Day of Giving! See more below about how you can support CHL and on 10.10.24.
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Send a message to UAMS Center for Health Literacy:
Health literacy is “the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions.” (DHHS, 2000)
When people understand health information they are able to:
Find information they need about health
Easily understand information the first time they read or hear it
Use the information to make decisions about their health
Make good choices about their lifestyle and health care
For health professionals, addressing health literacy is key to the success of:
Health care organizations’ quality and value-based payment program metrics
Public health communications
Health education and promotion programs
Population health management strategies
Who we are?
We are a multidisciplinary team of expert health literacy researchers, consultants, and practitioners dedicated to improving society and population health by making health information easy to understand and use. We provide services to individuals and organizations across the globe who communicate health information with patients and the public. Evidence-based best practices inform all that we do at UAMS CHL. Our nationally recognized, award-winning team includes experts in:
Health communication
Health education
Healthcare ethics
Spanish language interpreting and translation
Community health
What do we do?
To achieve our mission we focus on four main objectives:
Empirical and theoretical research to better understand health literacy, how it contributes to health outcomes, and evidence for how to improve it.
Health literacy services for healthcare providers and other professionals to address the critical need of closing the gap between the level of written health information and individuals’ abilities to understand and act on it.
Promoting, through training and consultation, health literacy best practices for providers, organizations, and systems.
Implementing policy initiatives to fully address health literacy across an entire organization.
