This week, ANTHC was recognized for innovation in development of the Local Environmental Observer (LEO) Network by Dennis McLerran, EPA Regional Administrator and JoAnn Chase, Director of the American Indian Environmental Office. We share this award with our LEO Network membership, consisting of more than 100 dedicated volunteer local environmental observers located across Alaska and the technical scientific support experts assisting from state and federal agencies. In addition to the award presented at the Alaska Forum for the Environment conference, ...

When the new patient housing facility opens on the Alaska Native Health Campus in Anchorage, the ANTHC facility will also be home to Alaska’s first Ronald McDonald House on the top floor of the six-story building. ANTHC and Ronald McDonald House Charities® of Western Washington & Alaska (RHMC) will expand their current partnership to provide programming and activities that enhance the “home away from home” environment for families of pediatric patients at the Alaska Native Medical Center. The partnership with ...

2016 will be an exciting year for our people traveling to ANMC for care, as the Patient Housing project continues to progress on schedule and within budget for opening later this year. Since we broke ground in May 2015, all steelwork has been completed, which gives structure to the six floors of interior construction to begin. The project is currently at 40 percent construction. At the start of December, a mock-up room was built on the second floor of the ...