Dining at a steak house in Marion on Thursday evening, April 4 might help improve the health of countless people in Eastern Arkansas.

How, you wonder? An event at Colton’s Steak House will be a key fund raiser for a new clinic for East Arkansas Family Health Care, Inc., a critical provider of medical and dental services for a population in dire need.

EAFHC currently operates a 7,700 square foot clinic at 215 East Bond Avenue in West Memphis in a worn out 38 year old strip mall.

The clinic has renovated one storefront after another as merchants have moved out of the property, creating a maze of waiting and exam rooms that fall short of the needs of the not-for-profit health and dental clinic.  

Hospitals across the Memphis area are competing in the second annual 'Show Me Your Heart' Competition on Valentine's Day.

The Mid-South Transplant Foundation is sponsoring the competition where 14 hospitals compete to sign up people to the organ donor registry, and see how many hospital staff members and visitors are currently registered donors. 

The hospital with the most registered donors and the hospital who registers the most new donors that day will each receive trophies from Mid-South Transplant Foundation.

A booth will be set up in each hospital in the lobby or cafeteria. MSTF staff members and volunteers will be at the booth to answer any questions.  They will also offer a heart shaped candy to all who show their heart or organ donor on their driver’s license or register as an organ and tissue donor during the event that day.

Here's this list of participating hospitals: