In its second year, the Strategic Access department continued to help ANTHC increase and improve the care and services we provide. This year, we remodeled and expanded several clinics and inpatient areas, adding capacity to our hospital and helping ensure specialty clinic appointments are available when needed. Our largest projects from 2016 included the remodel of the Healthy Communities Building to accommodate 40,000 square feet of new clinic space and the opening of patient housing at ANMC mentioned above. ANTHC, ...

Each year, ANTHC honors staff members who stand out for exceptional dedication and innovation, for embodying our Consortium’s mission and vision, and for contributing significant achievements during the past year. We recognize these individuals and teams with ANTHC Employee of the Year awards and present the awards to winners in the company of their fellow staff, family and friends at the annual ANTHC Holiday Party. This year, ANTHC presented awards to 13 individuals and one team at our holiday celebration ...

The last walls have been built and the final touches are being prepared for the six-story, 202-room patient housing facility to welcome its first guests in January 2017. Earlier this month, ANTHC obtained the certificate of occupancy from the Municipality of Anchorage, which has allowed ANTHC staff to begin filling the guest rooms with the amenities that will truly make it a home away from home for the 60 percent of ANMC patients that travel to Anchorage for their care. ...

Alaska Native leaders, Tribal partners and community members from across the state joined ANTHC’s Board of Directors and executive staff for the Consortium’s Annual Meeting on Monday at the Dena’ina Civic Center in Anchorage. The Annual Meeting is an exciting event that allows us to discuss our accomplishments and challenges in the last year, while also getting a chance to connect and communicate face to face with our people. Improving access to health services for our people when and where ...

This November marks the Alaska Native Health Campus’ 10-year anniversary of becoming a tobacco-free campus. The Alaska Native Health Campus has been 100 percent tobacco free since 2006 and will celebrate this achievement on Nov. 17 in conjunction with the American Cancer Society’s Great American Smokeout. The American Cancer Society began celebrating the one-day Great American Smokeout event in the 1970s primarily as a way to encourage current tobacco users to make a plan to quit, or to go completely ...

The Harvard Honoring Nations awarded the Alaska Rural Utility Collaborative (ARUC) with its highest award on Wednesday, Oct. 12 during a special presentation at the National Congress of American Indians conference in Phoenix, Arizona. ARUC was one of six semifinalists from Tribal programs across the country, out of an original field of 87 applicants. Harvard Honoring Nations is an award of The Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, a project of the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard ...