Little Rock, AR – October 21, 2024 – The Orthopaedic & Spine Hospital (TOSH) at UAMS Health has been awarded the 2024 AIA Arkansas People’s Choice Design Award. AIA Arkansas launched its inaugural People’s Choice Award in 2015 to increase public awareness of the level of design excellence produced by Arkansas architects. Open to public voting, individuals across the state were able to vote online for their favorite design out of 36 projects.
Designed by Cromwell Architects Engineers, with contributions from Davis Stokes Collaborative Architects and built by Nabholz Construction, this award recognizes the innovative design embodied by the UAMS Health Orthopaedic and Spine Hospital. TOSH provides the Orthopaedic Surgery Department with much-needed additional surgical capacity, clinical exam space, advanced imaging areas and residency classrooms to accommodate advances in medical technology, practice, and education in a patient-centered healing environment.
In addition to this AIA honor, TOSH won a 2024 ASID South Central Chapter Silver Award earlier this year, recognizing excellence in Interior Design projects across the Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi region. These accolades solidify The Orthopaedic and Spine Hospital as a premier destination for patients to heal, staff to work, and students to learn all while increasing UAMS Health’s reputation as a groundbreaking medical center committed to bringing Arkansas into a better state of health.
About UAMS 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 3,275 students, 890 medical residents and fellows, and five dental residents. It is the state’s largest public employer with more than 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
About Cromwell Architects Engineers Founded in 1885, Cromwell Architects Engineers is a full-service design firm specializing in architecture, engineering, and sustainable solutions across multiple sectors, including Healthcare & Wellness design.
Reaching skyward on the edge of campus, The Orthopaedic & Spine Hospital (TOSH) at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS Health) stands confidently alongside the architectural works of Edward Durrell Stone and HOK. Designed for prominence along Interstate 630, TOSH brings UAMS Health’s world-class orthopaedic, spine, and pain surgeons together to practice and teach in a building designed for connection, well-being, and economy.
