I've written in recent columns about the amazing projects taking place on the Bentonville campus of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Completion of Heartland Whole Health Institute is scheduled for the spring of next year. Completion of the Alice L. Walton School of Medicine is scheduled for next summer. Completion of the Crystal Bridges expansion is set for 2026.

The foundation and medical school are separate entities, though they are sister institutions.

According to the institute's website, its purpose is to "lower costs, improve quality and broaden access to health care in the heartland by catalyzing new delivery models, using whole health principles, that can be replicated to disrupt the national health-care system. The institute was driven by its founder's health-care experience and furthered by research revealing that the United States has one of the highest levels of health spending worldwide.

"In conjunction with Alice L. Walton School of Medicine, the institute will transform health care by improving outcomes, reducing costs and expanding access, beginning in the heartland and scaling nationally. ... As part of this effort, the institute will assess, develop and integrate whole-health practices and services across the continuum of care, while the Walton School of Medicine will help establish a regional academic health system in northwest Arkansas.

"By redesigning delivery models and how........

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