Congratulations to ANMC DAISY Award winner, Megan Webb, RN in Family Birthing Services. DAISY Awards are considered from nominations received directly from patients and colleagues. Webb was nominated by a fellow nurse and colleague, Jamille Tucker. 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, ...
November 18 is the Great American Smokeout
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is a disease that affects the respiratory system, which primarily includes your lungs and your ability to breathe. Smokers and people using vape pens or e-cigarettes may have less efficient lungs and may be hit harder by breathing issues resulting from the virus. ANTHC and the State of Alaska have resources available for quitting smoking, vaping and other tobacco product use. Contact the Alaska Tobacco Quit Line at 1-800-QUIT-NOW (1-800-784-8669) to learn more about free services ...
Behavioral Health Wellness Clinic accepting new clients
Behavioral health services can be difficult to access and ANTHC’s new Behavioral Health Wellness Clinic aims to make it easy to connect to compassionate care. In late July, ANTHC opened the Behavioral Health Wellness Clinic (BHWC). The BHWC serves Alaska Native and Native American individuals and families throughout Alaska. The BHWC provides individual and group counseling, mental health and substance use assessments, and referral support. All services are provided exclusively through telehealth, which can be done from the privacy of ...
The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC) and Southcentral Foundation (SCF) have launched Tinitun, a mobile app that helps campus visitors locate providers or clinics with ease, discover campus food options, find the nearest shuttle, mark the location of their parked cars and more. The Tinitun app includes indoor turn-by-turn directions inside the Alaska Native Medical Center (ANMC) hospital, specialty clinics and Anchorage Native Primary Care Center. The Tinitun app, the first of its kind in Alaska, is available for ...
October is American Pharmacists Month and Oct. 17-23 is National Pharmacy Week – a time to recognize the invaluable contributions pharmacists and technicians make to patient care in the ANMC hospital, Specialty Clinics and Primary Care. During this COVID-19 pandemic, ANMC pharmacists, technicians and pharmacy personnel continued to ensure our patients are cared for and our Tribal partners are supported. Every pharmacist, student pharmacist, and pharmacy technician is making a big difference. Capt. Kara King, PharmD, MPH, is the Director ...
Congratulations to ANMC DAISY Award winner, Carmen McDowell, RN in Labor and Delivery. DAISY Awards are considered from nominations received directly from patients and colleagues. McDowell was nominated by a new mother for the phenomenal care she provided throughout her birthing experience. In her nomination, McDowell’s patient wrote, “Not only did Carmen do a phenomenal job taking care of me physically, but she also helped me emotionally cope with my birthing experience going nothing like we had planned or hoped ...
At the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, we not only provide health care at the Alaska Native Medical Center, we also promote health and wellness initiatives that help keep you out of the hospital to begin with. As we prepare for another winter, we want to make sure all people are prepared with information and simple actions to protect our communities, our families and yourself from respiratory illnesses, such as flu, COVID-19, RSV and common colds, as well as winter ...
Narcan® Opioid Overdose Rescue Kits and training available
Opioid use is up in Alaska and an overdose can happen to anyone, at any time. Be prepared to save a life with a Narcan® overdose rescue kit. They are easy to use, can stop an overdose and save lives. Narcan (Naloxone) kits can quickly reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. Naloxone, easily delivered in a nasal spray, knocks opioids and heroin off the brain’s opioid receptors, reversing the effects of the opioid and allowing the person to breathe ...
ANMC Pediatric Infusion RN, Paula K. Ayojiak, wins DAISY Award
Congratulations to ANMC DAISY Award winner, Paula K. Ayojiak, RN in Inpatient Pediatrics. DAISY Awards are considered from nominations received directly from patients and Ayojiak was nominated by her pediatric patient for the excellent care she provides. This past quarter, Ayojiak received three nominations. In an effort to further recognize our nurses for their outstanding work, ANMC partners with the DAISY Award, an international program that rewards and celebrates the extraordinary clinical skill and compassionate care given by nurses every ...
ANMC Laboratory wins 2021 ASHNHA Patient Safety Beacon Award
The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Alaska Native Medical Center, Southcentral Foundation, and ANMC laboratory recently received the Patient Safety “Beacon” Award from The Alaska State Hospital and Nursing Home Association (ASHNHA). The ANMC Laboratory is operated collaboratively by the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium and Southcentral Foundation, and is led by Dr. James J. Tiesinga, Laboratory Medical Director. The Beacon Award highlights demonstrated above-and-beyond safety-related performance. This year, the awards review committee and ASHNHA staff selected Dr. Tiesinga, on ...