Category: Alaska Native Medical Center
Patient Housing at ANMC Grand Opening Celebration
After years of planning and months of construction, the patient housing facility at ANMC opened on Jan. 2 for guests. This week, ANTHC hosted a grand opening celebration to bless the facility and thank those who were instrumental in making our leadership’s vision a reality. The ANTHC Board of Directors shared this special celebration with our key partners including State of Alaska Department of Health and Social Services Commissioner Valerie Davidson, Ronald McDonald House Charities of Western Washington and Alaska, ...
Patient housing at ANMC now open
After years of planning and months of construction, the patient housing facility at ANMC is now open for guests. This new building for patient lodging officially opened on Jan. 2 with more than 100 guests in rooms on the Alaska Native Health Campus. The leadership of our health system’s Tribal governance, represented by ANTHC’s Board of Directors, recognized that providing safe lodging is an important piece of access to care for our people. Thanks to their vision, safe and convenient ...
Campus growth means better access to care for our people
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, ...
ANMC speech-language pathologists introduce new testing procedure
ANMC’s speech-language pathologists are now offering fiber-optic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing (FEES), which has become a globally recognized gold standard for evaluating patients with difficulty or abnormal swallowing and assessing swallowing function. FEES can be done with both adults and pediatric patients when appropriate. ANMC’s certified speech-language pathologists diagnose and treat adults and children with speech, language, voice and swallowing problems. This new testing procedure is conveniently performed bedside and is well tolerated by both adult and pediatric patients. Historically, ...
Patient housing facility gears up for January opening
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. ...
Every baby born in Alaska undergoes a series of tests just before they leave the hospital to go home. A small blood sample is collected from the baby’s heel and sent to a laboratory for testing that targets about 50 conditions. These routine tests are done to identify any possible disorders in the baby’s body chemistry. In July, the State of Alaska launched a new DNA test to better identify babies born with a gene variant known as CPT1A Arctic ...