• This conference is an opportunity for you to learn best practices from Southcentral Foundation's two-time Malcolm Baldrige Award-winning Nuka System of Care. (scfnuka.com)
  • At Southcentral Foundation, the management style used in the Nuka System of Care works to reinforce the core values of the system while allowing flexibility for care teams and avoiding micromanagement. (scfnuka.com)
  • In contrast to Turkey's challenges with tracking patients during voluntary empanelment, the Southcentral Foundation (SCF) Nuka System of Care serving Alaska Native and American Indian people in Alaska, United States has achieved efficient voluntary empanelment through the support of an Empanelment Department. (improvingphc.org)
  • ANTHC is an intertribal consortium created by Congress to provide statewide health services at the Alaska Native Medical Center ("ANMC") in accordance with section 325 of the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriation Act of 1998, Pub. (narf.org)
  • Southcentral Foundation and the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium will celebrate Russian Christmas on Monday, Jan. 7, 2013 at 2 p.m., in the Alaska Native Medical Center (ANMC) Anchorage Native Primary Care Center lobby, located at 4320 Diplomacy Drive. (ciri.com)
  • Two of the state's largest tribal health organizations, the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium and Southcentral Foundation, announced in July that staff would be required to get vaccinated or face termination by Oct. 15. (adn.com)
  • As of Friday, fewer than 80 Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium workers - out of 3,020 full-time employees - have asked for exemptions, and about half were granted, according to a spokesperson. (adn.com)
  • During First Lady Jill Biden's visit to the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, she called Alaska's Tribal health care system the gold standard. (knba.org)
  • Biden landed at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson that morning -- and traveled via motorcade to the Alaska Native Medical Campus -- where she spoke to reporters at the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium. (knba.org)
  • First Lady Jill BIden is greeted at the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium by Alaska Chief Medical Officer Anne Zink and ANTHC President Valerie Nurr'araaluk Davidson on Wednesday, July 21, 2021. (knba.org)
  • Biden gave credit to health organizations like Southcentral Foundation and the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium for their vaccination work. (knba.org)
  • Four-hundred-fifty thousand dollars each is going to the statewide Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium for patient housing, and to the Anchorage-based Southcentral Foundation for construction of a behavioral health clinic. (knba.org)
  • The village council vice president proudly took Martin Kalis, CAPT Mark Miller, CAPT Mike Herring, and other Indian Health Service and Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium members on a tour of their new state-of-the-art water treatment plant made possible through a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (cdc.gov)
  • According to LTJG Katie Burbage, Assistant Environmental Health Consultant with the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, environmental health training is particularly needed in Alaska. (cdc.gov)
  • The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium and Southcentral Foundation jointly own and manage ANMC. (anmc.org)
  • Alaska Humanities Forum grant products, Archives and Special Collections, Consortium Library, University of Alaska Anchorage. (consortiumlibrary.org)
  • So, in August, I headed to Anchorage to meet with the Alaska Native Health Board, the Alaska Native Health Consortium, the Alaska Federation of Natives, and the Southcentral Foundation. (robertmcdonald.com)
  • Dr. Yvette Roubideaux, director of the IHS, will present the award to Southcentral Foundation's vice president of executive and tribal services, Ileen Sylvester, at a June 29 ceremony in Washington, D.C. (ihs.gov)
  • Southcentral Foundation's New Generations Project focuses on the importance of infant and early childhood mental health and connecting new generations from pre-pregnancy through age 5. (southcentralfoundation.com)
  • Southcentral Foundation's Virtual Nuka Winter Conference is less than two months away! (scfnuka.com)
  • Southcentral Foundation's Learning Institute has published a new white paper, "Nuka Approach to Data and Information Management Strategies. (scfnuka.com)
  • Bristol Bay Native Corporation (BBNC) - This regional corporation covers around 40 million acres in Bristol Bay. (alaskapublic.org)
  • UAA is the premier university in the heart of Alaska's largest city with campuses throughout Southcentral Alaska. (alaska.edu)
  • Cook Inlet Region, Inc (CIRI) - This regional corporation covers around 29 million acres in the Southcentral region, including Alaska's largest city, Anchorage. (alaskapublic.org)
  • Early Childhood Alaska: A Strategic Direction for 2020-2025 outlines a series of bold actions and improvements to benefit children and families across the state by 2025 and establishes a Ten-Year North Star Vision for Alaska's early childhood system. (earlychildhoodalaska.com)
  • ANCHORAGE, AK) - Monday, the Alaska Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development (DCCED) announced a grant program to distribute $30.6 million to Alaska's seafood and shellfish processing sector. (alaska-native-news.com)
  • Southcentral Foundation is an Alaska Native health care organization that serves Alaska Native and American Indian people who live in Anchorage, the Matanuska-Susitna Valley, and 55 rural villages across the state of Alaska. (wikipedia.org)
  • Southcentral Foundation is an Alaska Native-owned nonprofit health care organization serving nearly 60,000 Alaska Native and American Indian people living in Anchorage, Matanuska-Susitna Valley, and 60 rural villages in the IHS Anchorage Service Unit area. (ihs.gov)
  • Options for primary health care and dentistry for Alaska Native and American Indian people's have expanded in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley. (ciri.com)
  • Eleven workers - or just over 0.5% - of 1,850 employees with Foundation Health Partners, which operates Fairbanks Memorial, decided to leave the organization rather than get vaccinated or submit a medical or religious exemption, Foundation Health Partners said late Friday, the day the hospital's vaccine mandate went into effect. (adn.com)
  • Golden Valley Electric Association (GVEA) is looking for an energetic individual as our Director of External Affairs and Public Relations as part of the Member Services Team located in Fairbanks, Alas. (yourcompanyinc.com)
  • Charles, of Fairbanks, is an associate professor of Yup'ik Eskimo and the first Alaska Native Director of the Alaska Native Language Center (ANLC) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF). (alaska.gov)
  • He grew up in Emmonak speaking Yup'ik before earning a bachelor's degree in elementary education at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, a master's degree in education at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and a Ph.D. in applied linguistics at UAF. (alaska.gov)
  • Yaayuk, of Nome, is the Kawerak Inc. Eskimo Heritage Program Director, and an Inupiaq instructor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Northwest Campus. (alaska.gov)
  • Alvanna-Stimpfle holds a master's degree in education and a bachelor's degree in Inupiaq Eskimo language from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. (alaska.gov)
  • For the period from January 1 to August 31, 2022, 46 percent of individuals experiencing homelessness in Anchorage at any given time self-identified as American Indian, Alaska Native, or Indigenous. (huduser.gov)
  • Recently, in May 2022, the Foundation organized the inaugural Bristol Bay Indigenous Language Summit, and over the next ten years, the Cultural Program under Kay's leadership will continue to prioritize promoting and nurturing indigenous language opportunities for Bristol Bay's indigenous communities. (alaska.gov)
  • Brocher Foundation, 23-25 May, 2022. (nature.com)
  • The Brocher Foundation-funded ELSI in Epigenetics: Indigenous, National and Global Perspectives symposium brought together bioethicists, epigeneticists, policy researchers and healthcare professionals from around the world in May 2022. (nature.com)
  • Antimicrobial drug susceptibilities surveillance at the Alaska Native Medical Center (ANMC). (cdc.gov)
  • to provide all statewide health services provided by the Indian Health Services of the Department of Health and Human Services through the [ANMC] and the Alaska Area Office. (narf.org)
  • ANMC celebrates the holiday with its customers in recognition of the long history between the Russian Orthodox Church and Alaska Native people. (ciri.com)
  • The Alaska Native Medical Center (ANMC) location focuses on pediatric dental care, dental emergency care and dental surgery. (freedentalcare.us)
  • The Alaska Native Medical Center (ANMC) offers comprehensive medical services and acute, specialty, primary and behavioral health care to Alaska Native and American Indian people living in Alaska. (anmc.org)
  • Driven by the pandemic, Covenant House Alaska (CHA), a service provider for youth experiencing homelessness in Anchorage, Alaska, worked with its partners in 2021 to enact two projects that provide housing, community, education, and employment services to youth experiencing homelessness. (huduser.gov)
  • Zink acknowledged that the pandemic put the spotlight on a lot of inequities -- but the collaboration between Tribes, Tribal health and the state has better served Alaska as a whole. (knba.org)
  • The State of Alaska was allocated this funding under the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Seafood Processors Pandemic Response and Safety Block Grant Program. (alaska-native-news.com)
  • Share your heritage with loved ones, help preserve our Alaska Native culture and strengthen ties with future generations of CIRI Shareholders. (ciri.com)
  • The mission of CIRI is to promote the economic and social well-being and Alaska Native heritage of our Shareholders, now and into the future, through prudent stewardship of the company's resources, while furthering self-sufficiency among CIRI Shareholders and their families. (ciri.com)
  • Cook Inlet Region, Inc. (CIRI) is one of 12 regional corporations established in Alaska by the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971. (ciri.com)
  • CIRI has joined two other partners to become the new owners of one of Anchorage's largest office complexes, which features the tallest building in Alaska. (ciri.com)
  • To ensure that its programs are culturally appropriate, CHA partners with various Alaska Native organizations, including The CIRI Foundation and the Cook Inlet Tribal Council . (huduser.gov)
  • The objective of the briefing was to share information about how CIRI and its partner organizations collaborate to deliver healthcare to the over 70,000 American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/ANs) in the Cook Inlet Region. (nihb.org)
  • CIRI was created, along with 11 other AN regional corporations, under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA). (nihb.org)
  • Southcentral Foundation now offers six integrated care teams in Wasilla at the Benteh Nuutah Valley Native Primary Care Center (VNPCC). (ciri.com)
  • This system shall both expand and enhance current prevention efforts and shall provide the foundation for creating prevention prepared communities, meaningful collaborative partnerships, and delivering and sustaining effective, efficient, and culturally appropriate services. (sprc.org)
  • The D-zone test for inducible in the Anchorage area and the statewide referral hospital clindamycin resistance was performed for isolates resistant for the Alaska Tribal Health System. (cdc.gov)
  • First Lady Jill Biden visited Anchorage on Wednesday to talk with health officials and get a glimpse of how Tribal health care works in Alaska. (knba.org)
  • The Tribal health system in Alaska really is the backbone for the health care in the state in many places it's the only health care system in the area for Tribal members and non-Tribal members. (knba.org)
  • Day two's schedule opened with Dr. Denise Dillard , Director of Research for the Southcentral Foundation, a tribal health organisation in Alaska, who discussed American Indian and Alaska Native peoples' underrepresentation in genomics research. (nature.com)
  • The Kodiak Area Native Association (KANA) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation providing health care and social services for the Alaska Natives and our communities throughout the Koniag region. (freeclinicdirectory.org)
  • These DTOs include the Cook Inlet Housing Authority (CIHA), Southcentral Foundation (SCF), and Cook Inlet Tribal Council (CITC). (nihb.org)
  • Genesis Recovery Services Inc is located at 2825 West 42nd Avenue Anchorage, AK. (drugrehabalaska.com)
  • The Traditional Healing Clinic of the Southcentral Foundation, an Alaska Native owned and managed health care system, is the recipient of an Indian Health Service (IHS) Director's Special Recognition Award for Public Health Leadership. (ihs.gov)
  • The Forum represents and serves Alaska as one of 56 state and territorial councils supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and as a member of the Federation of State Humanities Councils. (consortiumlibrary.org)
  • Grantee: The Alaska Federation of Fisheries Cooperatives, Inc. (consortiumlibrary.org)
  • Alaska Native people and American Indian people in our state of Alaska were four times more likely to die because of COVID-19. (knba.org)
  • The Southcentral Foundation seeks to forge a comprehensive and integrated suicide prevention system to detect, prevent, and provide collaborative early intervention services to ALASKA NATIVE/ AMERICAN INDIAN youth and emerging adults who reside within the area of Alaska served by the Southcentral Foundation Anchorage and contiguous areas. (sprc.org)
  • The Southcentral Foundation (SCF) Preserving the Future project shall define the need for services, the gaps between needed and available services, barriers to care, and other problems related to the need to implement suicide prevention and early intervention activities for Alaska Native and American Indian (ALASKA NATIVE/AMERICAN INDIAN) youth and emerging adults, age 10-24, at risk of or currently experiencing issues that may lead to suicide. (sprc.org)
  • To increase the capacity, effectiveness, and efficiency of suicide prevention services for ALASKA NATIVE/AMERICAN INDIAN youth age 10-24 who reside within the area served by the Southcentral Foundation. (sprc.org)
  • Southcentral Foundation (SCF) is an Alaska Native-owned health care system providing a variety of services for 65,000 Alaska Native and American Indian people. (jamanetwork.com)
  • The funding provided will support Amiri in conducting a study that will use machine learning to examine associations between a large set of social determinants of health with two health outcomes related to Alzheimer's disease and related dementias in American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) and Hispanic patients: age at diagnosis and rate of hospitalization. (wsu.edu)
  • That's the same commitment I made last October to the National Congress of American Indians in Atlanta when we talked about taking care of American Indian Veterans, Alaska Native Veterans-all Veterans who have served this country. (robertmcdonald.com)
  • To increase American Indian and Alaska Native Veteran access to care, VA and Indian Health Services (IHS) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in 2010. (robertmcdonald.com)
  • Today, thanks to the hard inter-agency work of Dr. Yvette Roubideaux and Mr. Robert McSwain at IHS, we have made progress delivering quality health care to American Indian and Alaskan Native Veterans through reimbursement agreements. (robertmcdonald.com)
  • Kenai Peninsula College (KPC) invites applications for its Term Assistant Professor of Process Technology position located in Soldotna, Alaska, effective August 2024. (yourcompanyinc.com)
  • NLM partnered with the American Library Association (ALA) to host the Native Voices traveling exhibition in 2016-2020. (nih.gov)
  • Rachel Kelly, left, an intensive care unit nurse, receives a dose of COVID-19 vaccine from Emily Schubert, the employee health nurse at the Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage on Dec. 15, 2020. (adn.com)
  • Southcentral Foundation is the largest Alaska Native owned healthcare system in the state. (counseling.org)
  • He wanted me to see and hear first-hand Alaska Native Veterans' challenges in receiving healthcare. (robertmcdonald.com)
  • Alaska Natives and other Native American tribes have used the bark from the Willow tree as a pain killer. (wikipedia.org)
  • This fusion of native values, beliefs, and practices with modern medical practices is a prime example of the positive power of federal self-determination policies that allow Indian tribes to manage their own health care. (ihs.gov)
  • Northwest Tribes recognize that healthy Native mothers and children are at the heart of healthy Native communities. (npaihb.org)
  • As a key sponsor and supporter of the EHTER course in Alaska, the Indian Health Service Environmental Health Support Center was so impressed that the agency has requested another course in 2012, this time for Plains Indian tribes and their state and local partners in North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and other parts of the upper Midwest. (cdc.gov)
  • Although 177 MRSA isolates coccus aureus (MRSA) USA300 commonly caused infections among Alaska Natives, we examined clinical had been collected, 2 were not available, and 2 lacked the MRSA isolates from the Alaska Native Medical Center, mecA gene by PCR, leaving 173 isolates for further study. (cdc.gov)
  • The state's largest hospital, Providence Alaska Medical Center, announced last month it will require all caregivers to be fully vaccinated by Oct. 18 or have an approved medical or religious exemption. (adn.com)
  • The organizations co-manage Alaska Native Medical Center, which is considering only medical exemption requests. (adn.com)
  • Alaska Regional Hospital and Mat-Su Regional Medical Center aren't requiring vaccination at this point. (adn.com)
  • The majority of the garden's plants are native to Alaska and have been used for thousands of years to nourish and heal Alaska Native people. (ihs.gov)
  • And the great thing about Alaska is that people really look out for each other. (knba.org)
  • The corporations were designed to serve Alaska Native people, and have committed to cultural and community efforts in addition to their corporate responsibilities. (alaskapublic.org)
  • So financing quality drug and alcohol treatment in Anchorage, Alaska is possible for most people, regardless of whether they believe it might not be. (drugrehabalaska.com)
  • Anchorage is the largest city in Alaska, with a population of more than 300,000 people. (jamanetwork.com)
  • At Southcentral Foundation, Alaska Native people have been running their own health care system for over two decades. (scfnuka.com)
  • The number of people affected by drug abuse is increasing every day, and Koyuk Alaska is no exception to this epidemic. (rehablist.org)
  • Led by co-PIs at WSU and Northern Arizona University, this five-year grant provides funding to provide an inclusive research training curriculum to a diverse cohort of nine scientists pursuing careers in community-based participatory research on aging with Native people. (wsu.edu)
  • The largest land settlement of its kind, ANCSA was signed into law by President Richard Nixon on December 18, 1971 in order to settle Indigenous land claims in Alaska. (alaskapublic.org)
  • 100 shares were issued to Alaska Natives born before Dec. 18, 1971. (alaskapublic.org)
  • Traditional Alaska Native medicine is a cultural style of healing that has been passed down from one generation of Alaska Native peoples to the next and is based on success over time and oral tradition. (wikipedia.org)
  • During 2013-2015, the National Library of Medicine had traveling versions of the Native Voices: Native Peoples' Concepts of Health and Illness visiting pilot sites and Regional Medical Libraries around the country. (nih.gov)
  • In April 2008, the Arctic Investigations Program (AIP) of CDC was informed by the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) of a large number of Alaska Native (AN) children living in a remote region of Alaska who required full mouth dental rehabilitations (FMDRs), including extractions and/or restorations of multiple carious teeth performed under general anesthesia. (cdc.gov)
  • The Traditional Healing Clinic provides traditional Alaska Native approaches to health in an outpatient setting in conjunction with other services offered at Southcentral Foundation. (ihs.gov)
  • To increase understanding of the goal, SCF renamed the program from Project LAUNCH to the New Generations Project after the first year to support the aim: Alaska Native families will increase their physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual wellness by optimizing the effectiveness of services that support families in the preparation for and care of new generations. (southcentralfoundation.com)
  • Healthy Native moms and babies need a continuum of support that extends across families, communities, health care and social services systems. (npaihb.org)
  • Dental services are offered at two locations at Southcentral Foundation (SCF). (freedentalcare.us)
  • According to the 2011 UAA ISER study on Alaska health-care spending, about 28% of spending in Alaska was for the general category of physicians and clinical services. (opalaska.com)
  • Over 80% of the money has come from three non-profits: The Alaska Children's Trust has donated $105,000, Recover Alaska $72,862, and Providence Health and Services Alaska $25,000. (alaskalandmine.com)
  • Alaska Island Community Services is a not-for-profit, community-based organization dedicated to providing quality health care services to our community and the surrounding areas. (freeclinicdirectory.org)
  • Since 1990 Garness Engineering Group has provided engineering services and/or product sales throughout the state of Alaska. (garnessengineering.com)
  • The clinic also has an Alaska Native traditional healing garden in which plants that have been used for medicinal use for generations are grown. (wikipedia.org)
  • The clinic also includes an Alaska Native traditional healing garden, which is used as a teaching garden. (ihs.gov)
  • If you are in need of dental care and cannot afford to go to a regular dental clinic, please consider visiting one of the free dental clinics in Anchorage, AK. (freedentalcare.us)
  • Council members are Alaska Native language professionals who provide recommendations for and foster the development of a comprehensive statewide Alaska Native language policy, strategy for improving the preservation, restoration and revitalization of Alaska Native languages. (alaska.gov)
  • Under her leadership, the center has initiated a statewide language summit, two pilot language immersion camps, language circles, and a study to identify Alaska Native language programs and learners of Alaska Native languages. (alaska.gov)
  • She has also worked as an Alaska Native education coordinator and classroom teacher, and as a teaching mentor with the Alaska Statewide Mentoring Project. (alaska.gov)
  • Alaska Statewide Independent Living Council, Inc. (alaskamentalhealthtrust.org)
  • The law firm Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse, Miller and Munson is helping fund construction of Native health facilities and medical equipment. (knba.org)
  • The significant percentage of Alaska Native and Native American youth that CHA serves requires the organization to be deliberate and thoughtful in its programming. (huduser.gov)
  • To support care team members in working at the top of their licenses, and to give the Alaska Native community more of a voice in how the organization is run, SCF employs non-clinical workers as clinical managers. (scfnuka.com)
  • and an Indigenous Project LAUNCH grant to prepare Alaska Native children 0-8 with skills to succeed in school, led by Southcentral Foundation, a health and wellness organization serving the Alaska Native population in Southcentral Alaska. (earlychildhoodalaska.com)
  • Southcentral Foundation utilizes an approach to telehealth that takes advantage of its relationship-based system of care that delivers quality care to customer-owners without the need for face-to-face visits. (scfnuka.com)
  • The Alaska Airlines Center and Seawolf Sports Complex offer recreation as well as hosting community events and concerts. (alaska.edu)
  • Koahnic Broadcast Corporation's Alaska Native Art Auction will be held Feb. 20, 2014 at the Dena'ina Civic and Convention Center from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. (ciri.com)
  • Evans Smith, of Anchorage, is the Alaska Native Heritage Center President and CEO, where she has worked in several roles since 2003. (alaska.gov)
  • Flying in a small plane over the Cook Inlet added a bit of adventure to a February 2011 visit to Alaska for three National Center for Environmental Health staff members. (cdc.gov)
  • Tertiary Care Center- OB-GYN s make decisions about transporting patients out of rural AK. (jamanetwork.com)
  • Known as Community Health and Aging in Native Groups of Elders (CHANGE), the new program builds on the success of the Native Elder Research Center, which Buchwald led for 25 years. (wsu.edu)
  • We are a Federally-Qualified Health Center (FQHC) located on the beautiful island of Kodiak, Alaska. (freeclinicdirectory.org)
  • The Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority (Trust) awarded more than $680,000 in grants to organizations across the state in the first quarter of fiscal year 2023. (alaskamentalhealthtrust.org)
  • This number does not include individuals served by agencies that do not share data with the Alaska Homeless Management Information System. (huduser.gov)
  • USDA Secretary Vilsack Announces Grants as part of National Climate Justice Campaign Anchorage, AK - Urban areas and forestlands in Anchorage will get a lot healthier under a new grant from the USDA Forest Service. (alaska-native-news.com)
  • Trust grants are awarded throughout the year to Alaska nonprofits, Tribal entities, state and local government agencies, service providers and other organizations that serve Trust beneficiaries. (alaskamentalhealthtrust.org)
  • alaskamentalhealthtrust.org/about/grants or contact Trust Grants Administrator Lucas Lind at [email protected] . (alaskamentalhealthtrust.org)
  • This award is for outstanding public health leadership in incorporating traditional healing practices into the total medical care regimen for the benefit of native patients, families, and communities," said Dr. Roubideaux. (ihs.gov)
  • Her prior work involves service with Southcentral Foundation and The Northern Forum. (alaska.gov)
  • Why work for Southcentral Foundation? (counseling.org)
  • Many of those who took the EHTER course regularly work with remote Alaska Native villages even smaller than Tyonek, so the disaster management module of the training "helped identify areas for potential involvement of those environmental professionals," Burbage said. (cdc.gov)
  • The PCC believes that primary care is the foundation of a successful ACO that uses transparent performance measures to achieve the Quadruple Aim of improving population health, improving patients' experience of care, reducing the total cost of care, and improving the work life of health care providers. (thepcc.org)
  • We appreciate the work of our grantees across Alaska who are applying their expertise to supporting vulnerable Alaskans. (alaskamentalhealthtrust.org)
  • Materials related to humanities research and work in Alaska. (consortiumlibrary.org)
  • Front-line health care workers were among the first in Alaska to become eligible to receive the vaccine. (adn.com)
  • An as-yet-unknown number of nurses and other health care employees are either considering leaving their jobs or facing termination as vaccine requirements go into effect at hospitals around Alaska. (adn.com)
  • Alaska health-care spending and financing are just as complex, and this has been a hot topic of discussion during the last few years in general, and especially during the last few months in the Alaska Dispatch News. (opalaska.com)
  • The ADN, in particular, has focused on specialty care and its supposed outsized effects on health-care spending in Alaska. (opalaska.com)
  • There is a fair amount of "common knowledge" in the public at large about specialty health care in Alaska, but examination of actual data presents a different picture. (opalaska.com)
  • Actually, only about 4 to 6 cents of each health-care dollar spent in Alaska goes to specialist take-home pay. (opalaska.com)
  • This drills down to somewhere around 4 to 6 cents of each health-care dollar spent in Alaska going to specialist take-home pay. (opalaska.com)
  • The main cause of the yearly increases in health-care costs in Alaska has been the increased fees charged by specialty physicians. (opalaska.com)
  • It can be confusing to keep track of the various Native organizations and layers of tribal enrollment options within Alaska, so we put together a list of definitions that explain some of the basics. (alaskapublic.org)
  • Tribal implementation of a patient-centred medical home model in Alaska accompanied by decreased hospital use. (improvingphc.org)
  • I was deeply honored to meet tribal elders and warriors of the Alaska Territorial Guard when I traveled to Kotzebue and Point Hope. (robertmcdonald.com)
  • AIP and Alaska DHSS conducted an investigation of dental caries and associated risk factors among children in the remote region. (cdc.gov)
  • Among children from the Alaska villages, those aged 4--5 years had a mean of 7.3 dental caries, and those aged 12--15 years had a mean of 5.0, compared with 1.6 and 1.8 dental caries in same-aged U.S. children ( 2 ). (cdc.gov)
  • We have listed the dental costs below which we have compiled for Southcentral Foundation - Fireweed Building Dental. (freedentalcare.us)
  • We do not have any costs yet for Southcentral Foundation - Fireweed Building Dental. (freedentalcare.us)
  • Have a question regarding Southcentral Foundation - Fireweed Building Dental? (freedentalcare.us)
  • It transferred title to around 44 million acres of land and $962.5 million dollars to 13 for-profit regional corporations and over 200 for-profit village corporations within Alaska. (alaskapublic.org)
  • Alaska Native Regional Corporation (ANC) - ANCs are the 13 for profit corporations formed under ANCSA. (alaskapublic.org)
  • There are many treatment options available near Koyuk, AK, which can easily become overwhelming to those seeking help. (rehablist.org)
  • Women seeking rehabilitation in a female environment may be interested in women-only rehab centers in Koyuk, AK. (rehablist.org)
  • Support groups are highly encouraged in Koyuk, Alaska throughout the recovery and healing process of substance abuse. (rehablist.org)
  • Point Hope was just one of many stations of the more than 6,400 Veterans of the Alaska Territorial Guard who served from Koyuk in the east to Wales in the west, and from Golovin in the south to Shishmaref in the north. (robertmcdonald.com)
  • To reduce the prevalence suicide and suicidal behaviors among the at risk youth populations (10-24) in the area served by Southcentral Foundation. (sprc.org)
  • Each part of the dandelion can and has been used by Native Alaskans and other Native Americans for medicinal use. (wikipedia.org)
  • State-of-the-art classroom instruction and hands-on learning collide in UAA's innovative academic programs, which feature unique courses that train students to lead Alaska into the future. (alaska.edu)
  • Kalis, CAPT Miller, and CAPT Herring were actually in Alaska to deliver a condensed two-day version of the Environmental Health Training in Emergency Response (EHTER) course to more than 50 environmental health professionals and other emergency response partners from across Alaska, as well as experts from other federal and state agencies. (cdc.gov)
  • Every year in the state of Alaska, there is an average of 3783 admissions into rehab facilities. (rehablist.org)
  • In contrast to an allopathic or western view of medicine, traditional Alaska Native medicine believes that illness stems from an individual's disharmony with the environment and healing must therefore begin in the person's spirit. (wikipedia.org)