This is part two of a four part sponsored series with the Anchorage Daily News. Fish strips hung in the smokehouse. Flies and mosquitoes buzzed around the outhouses. Pompan stepped off the boat in a three-piece suit and wing tip shoes. “I don’t know where he thought he was going, but he dressed for D.C., and he came to Indian Country,” recalled Paul Sherry. Sherry, who would later go on to be the first CEO of Alaska’s statewide Tribal health consortium, was ...

This is part one of a four part sponsored series with the Anchorage Daily News. Today, Alaska’s tribal health care system is owned and managed by the Alaska Native people, with objectives and innovations that are unique to the cultures, trends and geography of our state. But this hasn’t always been the case. Ask those who worked to put Alaska Native health care in the hands of Alaska Native people and they’ll tell you there was nothing easy about getting ...

The Alaska Native Medical Center was recently reverified as a Level II Trauma Center by the Verification Review Committee (VRC), an ad hoc committee of the Committee on Trauma (COT) of the American College of Surgeons (ACS). ANMC was Alaska’s first Level II Trauma Center – first receiving verification in 1999. This achievement recognizes ANMC’s dedication to providing optimal care for injured patients. “Our performance in providing the best care possible for injured patients was reaffirmed by the American College ...

The Immunization Action Coalition (IAC) urges hospitals and birthing centers to meet the national standard of care by providing a universal birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine in order to provide infants with protection against the disease from a variety of types of exposures. In 2018, newborns were administered the hepatitis B vaccine before leaving the Alaska Native Medical Center (ANMC) hospital at an average rate of more than 90 percent, protecting them from chronic hepatitis B infection and liver ...

Congratulations to Dr. Ellen Provost, ANTHC’s Director of the Alaska Native Epidemiology Center, for her recognition by the Alaska Public Health Association Board of Directors as the 2019 recipient of the Dr. Anne P. Lanier Meritorious Health Service Award. The Dr. Anne P. Lanier Meritorious Health Service Award recognizes the achievements of an individual in the area of health in Alaska over an extended period of time of more than 10 years. The award is named for Dr. Anne Lanier, ...

In Alaska, we use social media to connect with friends and family, share photos and recipes, update loved ones on how we’re doing, and watch videos of puppies and babies. At ANTHC, we’re connecting with our followers to share stories of our work and Alaska Native people. On Facebook (facebook.com/ANTHCToday), we share news, events, safety tips, services and general goings-on at the Consortium. On Instagram, a growing platform, we are gaining followers for sharing our vision that Alaska Native people ...