LITTLE ROCK — Sports training firm, St. Vincent team up
St. Vincent Health System of Little Rock has formed a partnership with D1, a sports performance training center in Little Rock, the two businesses said Thursday.
Along with the partnership, St. Vincent purchased a 25 percent ownership of the Little Rock D1 sports training operation and 100 percent of D1 sports therapy, said Jon Timmis, a St. Vincent senior vice president.
St. Vincent will provide sports therapy services specializing in rehabilitation of athletic injuries. Therapy also will focus on helping athletes remain healthy by concentrating on flexibility, agility, stamina and strength training; and educating athletes about injury prevention, St. Vincent said.
Athletes with injuries beyond the scope of a sports therapist can be treated at the St. Vincent Orthopaedic Institute by orthopedic surgeons who are trained in sports medicine.
The D1 facility features a 60-yard indoor turf field, weight training and sports specific training programs developed for athletes.
D1, based in Nashville, Tenn., has 16 locations in the United States.
Russia bars pork
from Tyson plant
A Tyson Fresh Meats plant in Logansport, Ind., has been suspended from exporting pork to Russia, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Inspection Service.
Tyson Fresh Meats is a subsidiary of Springdalebased Tyson Foods Inc.
According to the agency’s website, effective Oct.
5 the plant is ineligible to export to Russia. No reason was given.
“We’re working with Russian and USDA officials to quickly resolve this disruption in exports from Logansport,” Tyson spokesman Gary Mickelson said in an e-mailed statement Thursday. “In the meantime, we intend to meet the needs of our Russian customers from other approved Tyson pork plants.”
A spokesman from the Food Safety Inspection Service was not available Thursday afternoon.
State index creeps up
as 11 stocks rise
The Arkansas Index, a price-weighted index that tracks the largest public companies based in the state, rose 2.13 to 242.01 Thursday.
“U.S. stocks closed higher after Spain announced a new structural reform plan and speculation of stimulus measures out of China,” said John Blackwell, senior vice president and managing director of equity trading at Stephens Inc. in Little Rock. The Arkansas Index moved higher as 11 stocks advanced, four declined and one closed unchanged.
Deltic Timber gained 3.4 percent on average volume, while Windstream lost 1.2 percent in below-average trading.
Index volume was 27.9 million shares; the average is 23 million.
The index was developed by Bloomberg News and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette with a base value of 100 as of Dec. 30, 1997.
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