Category: Alaska Native Medical Center
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 ...
ANMC hospital reverified as Level II Trauma Center
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 ...
ANMC Pediatrics murals provides comfort to our smallest visitors
ANTHC is always looking for ways to make our patients’ visits more comfortable. For some of our youngest patients, the Consortium has made efforts to brighten up their day, even if it’s for a few precious moments as they move through the halls of ANMC’s Inpatient Pediatrics Unit. Custom, family-friendly wall graphics extend the comfort and overall experience for our young patients. These were recently installed in key locations within the department.Inpatient Pediatrics was previously remodeled in 2013 to enhance ...
Non-emergency? Visit ANTHC’s Walk-in Clinic
For our patients living outside of the Anchorage Service Unit, ANTHC offers a Walk-in Clinic for non-emergent health care services for our people while visiting town. The Walk-in Clinic is for our patients of all ages who have an illness or injury that needs immediate care but are not experiencing a medical emergency. Here are some reasons to visit the Walk-in Clinic at ANMC: Medication refillsVaccinationsFeverSchool and Dept. of Transportation physicalsSinus and ear infectionsSore throats and coldsCuts and minor skin ...