The Blood Bank of Alaska supplies hospitals across the state with the critical blood supplies they need to keep residents and ...
Oct. 2—An as-yet-unknown number of nurses and other health care employees are either considering leaving their jobs or facing termination as vaccine requirements go into effect at hospitals around ...
Sep. 30—A major rural Alaska hospital is enacting crisis standards of care, the latest facility to employ the worst-case scenario that provides support for doctors forced to decide which patients to ...
As Alaska grapples with a nursing vacancy rate of 24%, the clash between staff and administration underscores a larger question: Can technology truly alleviate systemic health care challenges? Amid ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oct. 31—Anchorage nurses say a new staffing model recently launched at Providence hospital will put patients in danger. Last week, ...
Medicaid changes proposed by Senate Republicans threaten health care coverage for thousands of Alaskans and could drive up medical costs for other Alaskans, according to an organization representing ...
Urban hospitals in Alaska are posting some of the highest profit margins in the country, as their average operating margin was 16.2 percent in 2010 while the nationwide average was roughly 6.3 percent ...
The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium is building a $70 million skilled nursing facility to help relieve pressure at the Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage. Along with a separate project ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska--(BUSINESS WIRE)--healtheConnect Alaska, the State of Alaska’s official health information exchange (HIE), announced today it has been awarded a new state contract with Alaska’s ...
Hundreds of health care workers and government officials descended on Anchorage this week for the kickoff of a five-year, $1.3 billion program aimed at reimagining medical care across Alaska. The ...
Capella Healthcare, LifePoint Hospitals and RegionalCare Hospital Partners are among five suitors for Central Peninsula Hospital -- a 49-bed facility in Soldotna, Alaska. The five were chosen from an ...