At the Alaska Native Medical Center, we’ve been busy continuing to care for our people during the COVID-19 pandemic. We’ve also made some changes since your last visit. The next time you visit our campus, be aware: All patients are screened at the door and asked to wear face coverings. Please bring yours with you.Staff are wearing face coverings at all times.Clinic waiting room spaces are rearranged to ensure proper physical distancing.The rotunda remains closed and other public seating areas ...

Project ECHO and the ANTHC Behavioral Health partnered to host a virtual learning network from 2021 to 2023 focused on improving delivery of addiction medicine and inform on related policies and practices. Please see the recordings of didactic presentations from various providers and content experts below: The Addiction Medicine ECHO is supported by a grant from the Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts (FORE), Improving Access to Opioid Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery Services for Underserved Populations and Communities. Its contents ...

In August 2020, the American Dental Association’s Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA) granted accreditation to the Alaska Dental Therapy Education Program (ADTEP). A monumental step in advancing oral health equity, especially for Tribal communities, the recognition is a first for the mid-level dental education program which has continued to bring community-driven oral health solutions to communities across the state. Once considered controversial, ADTEP started in 2004 certificate education program at ANTHC to hire full-time trained and qualified dental health professionals, ...

The Alaska Native Medical Center operates a state-of-the-art, 173-bed hospital that provides specialty medical services to Alaska Native and American Indian people. ANMC is Alaska’s first Level II Trauma Center, is a Level II Pediatric Trauma Center, and shared the American Hospital Association’s Carolyn Boone Lewis Living the Vision Award with the Alaska Tribal Health System. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic reemphasized the ways that health and access to health care are central to our quality of life. And our ...

Staff at ANTHC are used to confronting challenges that push us to be innovative, decisive and collaborative. Despite the uncertainties and unknowns, the COVID-19 pandemic was no different in our drive to find solutions that protect Alaska Native health. In 2020, the Alaska Tribal Health System worked together to respond. Driving the immediacy of our response was the historical knowledge of how previous viruses and pandemics resulted in incalculable losses to Alaska Native people and culture. ANTHC’s COVID-19 response and ...