Our Mission
We help people to lead fuller, healthier lives at home and in their neighborhoods.
Keeping you at the center, we work with others to deliver a better life.
Our Values
We encourage involvement.
We make every effort to provide people with resources to live a full life. We share, partner, and work with others to achieve involvement for our members at home, at work, and in their neighborhoods. We work together on mutual goals.
We respect others.
We see the potential in every person, build upon their strengths, and treat them with respect. With the right support, all people can achieve their goals.
We lead with purpose.
We talk about that. We speak up for others and encourage them to speak up for themselves. We seek out tools and ways to help make a change.
We boost self-reliance.
We recognize the need for freedom and personal choice. We use our experience and knowledge to help people realize and maintain freedom.
We earn trust.
We work with people and providers to coordinate care. We value member desires during treatment.
We promote advancement.
We help people find the right support to receive the best services. We educate, support and work together to provide the opportunity to improve.
Member and Consumer-driven
Empower Healthcare Solutions ensures individuals with IDD or BH needs receive the right care. Empower's Care Coordinators manages care across all providers.
Empower Healthcare Solutions understands the need to involve members in the PASSE program. We developed a Consumer Advisory Council. This allows members to provide feedback.
Administration
Mitch Morris, Chief Executive Officer
Greg Lueck, Chief Operating Officer
Marty Catron, Chief Financial Officer
Brad Diner, M.D., Chief Medical Officer
Suzanne Tipton, Chief Compliance Officer
Media inquiries: Please contact Stella Prather, APR, communications director,
stella.prather@empowerarkansas.com or 501-804-7263.
Empower is run by six organizations working together:
Arkansas Community Health Network
ACHN is composed of four health care systems: Baxter Regional Health System, North Arkansas Medical System, Unity Health, and White River Health System.
ICM is a statewide premier provider of home and community-based supports to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Statera
Statera is an entity comprised of leaders and innovators committed to serving the long-term support services needs of Arkansans, including those with behavioral health and developmental disability diagnoses. Together, the representatives of Statera have vast health care experience, spanning home health, hospice, skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, independent care facilities, institutional pharmacies, retail pharmacies, medical clinics, rural health clinics, non-emergency transportation services; and full-service rehabilitation therapy businesses throughout Arkansas.
Trive Capital is a Dallas, Texas-based private equity firm. Trive seeks to maximize returns through a hands-on partnership that calls for identifying and implementing value creation ideas. The Trive team is comprised of seasoned investment professionals who have been involved in multiple transactions across Trive’s targeted industry sectors and situations.
The Alliance is comprised of approximately 22 well-established inpatient and outpatient providers who strive to provide quality behavioral health, substance use disorder, and intellectual and developmental disability services.
ARcare operates as a Federally Qualified Health Center.
In addition, ARcare is the statewide provider of medical and case management services for the Ryan White HIV/AIDS program.