The Alaska Native Medical Center was recently reverified as a Level II Adult and Pediatric 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 Adult Level II Trauma Center – first receiving verification in 1999. ANMC first received verification as a Pediatric Trauma Center in 2018. These achievements recognize ANMC’s dedication to providing optimal care for both adult and pediatric ...
ANMC DAISY Award winner, Mary Ann Rowen, NP
Congratulations to ANMC DAISY Award winner, Mary Ann Rowen, NP. DAISY Awards are considered from nominations received directly from patients and colleagues. ANMC’s nurses provide culturally appropriate, family-centered care in a unique hospital environment, and they are constantly seeking ways to improve the services and care we provide. In an effort to further recognize our nurses for their outstanding work, ANMC partnered with the DAISY Award, an international program that rewards and celebrates the extraordinary clinical skill and compassionate care ...
Alysha Richardson was recently hired as ANTHC’s regional liaison for the Unalaska/Dutch Harbor communities. Richardson was born in Idaho, but has lived in Unalaska for roughly 25 years. Having worked previously with the Qawalangin Tribe of Unalaska, Richardson worked alongside the Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association to deliver COVID-19 vaccines to her community which she found very rewarding and added to her decision to become a regional ANTHC liaison. In addition, Richardson became very familiar with the Alaska Tribal health system ...
ANMC Purchased Referred Care (PRC) offers limited benefits to eligible Alaska Native and American Indian beneficiaries to help with emergency medical care while traveling outside of Alaska. Patients who meet ANMC’s eligibility criteria and residency requirements qualify. To meet residency requirements, the individual must not have been absent from Alaska for more than 180 days; and intend to live in Alaska indefinitely. Other criteria for eligibility include proof of Tribal enrollment or descent. Legal dependents of beneficiaries, including foster children, ...
Recognizing behavioral health services can be difficult to access in Alaska, ANTHC’s Behavioral Health Wellness Clinic (BHWC) offers patients video telehealth appointments for easy connection to compassionate care in communities across the state from the privacy of their own homes The clinic’s goal is to promote Alaska Native wellness by offering immediate access to culturally attuned and evidence-based behavioral health care. With this telehealth clinic, staff are specifically focused on serving people living in rural and remote areas of the ...
Each year the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium recognizes teams andindividuals for their special contributions to ANTHC and the Alaska NativeMedical Center. ANTHC President/CEO Val Davidson announces our employees andteams of the year, and the President’s Service Awardee for 2021. Please join us in congratulating our honorees for their contributions andoutstanding work this past year! The 2021 employees of the year: • Alyssa Krosbakken, ANTHC Grants and Development • Conor Ferguson, ANTHC Human Resources • DeAngelo Hatton, ANMC Patient Housing ...
March Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
Even though events and hospital visits may have been postponed over the last few years, colorectal cancer screening is essential and should not be delayed. Alaska Native men and women are two times more likely to get diagnosed with colon cancer than non-Natives. The good news is that colorectal cancer can be prevented through early screening and detection. Alaska Native people should get checked for colorectal cancer starting at age 40, or earlier if you have a family history of ...
March is Social Work Month, which raises awareness about professional social workers and their commitment to improving social conditions and quality of life opportunities for patients and families at ANMC. Social Work Month provides an opportunity to recognize ANMC’s dedicated social workers and the valuable services they provide. The ANMC hospital has six social workers – Deanna Thomas, LCSW; Paulette Bryan, LMSW; Michelle Kimbrell, LCSW; Claire Barber, LMSW; Lisa Typpo, BSW; and Spark Perry, LCSW. The ANMC Oncology Clinic has ...
Help us celebrate and cheer on our friends, neighbors, relatives and everyone in recovery! This March is Alaska’s fifth statewide Sobriety Awareness Month. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram to see how people across the state are talking about sobriety. Discover the ways that culture, community, health and support inspire Alaskans in their recovery journeys. Join the #AKSobrietyAwareness conversation each week by commenting with what recovery means to you! We also encourage everyone to wear a white ribbon throughout the month to promote ...
Stay well – make your health appointments at ANMC
Now more than ever, it is important to make sure you are keeping up with preventative and routine specialty health appointments. Like many health care organizations, ANMC has seen a decline in patients seeking care for emergency and chronic conditions since the emergence of COVID-19. ANMC has safely reopened its specialty care clinics for in-person appointments, including elective surgeries, cancer screenings such as mammograms and colonoscopies, and other health care needs that are difficult to complete over telehealth video appointments. ...