The Alaska Native Medical Center Oncology Clinic recently added nurse navigators as a new resource for Oncology patients and their families to better support them and help them navigate the beginning of their cancer journey. Nurse navigators support, advocate for, and educate patients from the time of their initial diagnosis until their first appointment with Oncology. Since this process typically takes 2-4 weeks, they are a resource for each Oncology patient until the patient has an established plan of care, ...

The Patient Housing Department provides lodging for patients receiving care at ANMC who live outside the 90-mile radius of Anchorage— more than 60% of ANMC’s patients travel from outside the Anchorage area for care.The 23-person Patient Housing department coordinates lodging accommodations for ANMC beneficiaries and is also a preferred Medicaid Hotel. The department works diligently to contact all patients arriving in Anchorage and confirms their lodging location and dates of stay, assists guests in reserving Medicaid Hotels, ensures meals are ...

The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium received grant funding for a new pediatric simulation dolls and training from the Healthy Alaska Natives Foundation (HANF) Foundation. The new pediatric simulation dolls are also known as high-fidelity manikins. These dolls incorporate the latest in computer hardware technology and can be programmed to provide a realistic full-body patient presentation. Training with these high-fidelity dolls can be used in high-stakes learning scenarios such as mock codes, simulates seizures, or mass-casualty incidents. Students’ shared that the ...