Alaska Native Medical Center Maternal Fetal Medicine earned recognition for providing excellent services to our expecting Alaska Native mothers. Maternal Fetal Medicine was awarded accreditation from the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) Ultrasound Practice Accreditation Council. “AIUM accreditation is one of the ways that the ANMC Maternal Fetal Medicine Clinic can demonstrate to the people we serve and the general public that we are committed to providing the highest quality of care for our Alaska Native mothers and ...

Recently, ANTHC construction crews installed a new ocean sewer outfall on the coast of Sand Point in the Aleutians East Borough. A sewer outfall is a large pipe anchored to the bottom of the ocean that disperses treated sewage a safe distance away from a community. Built in the 1980s, Sand Point’s original outfall anchors failed and caused it to float twice, making replacement necessary. Typically, outfalls are assembled 20 feet at a time on the shore from where the ...

Recent earthquake activity in Anchorage had ANMC and Anchorage residents thinking about earthquake safety. This article was pulled from the Mukluk Telegraph archives. When it opened on November 29, 1953, the Anchorage Medical Center of the Alaska Native Service was the largest civilian building in Alaska. The hospital experienced a great deal of change in its first 11 years in downtown Anchorage, but few things altered the facility more dramatically than the 9.2-magnitude earthquake that hit Alaska on Good Friday ...