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ANMC Wins Highest Honor in Nursing Excellence -- Again!
For the second consecutive time, ANMC has been awarded the prestigious Magnet designation by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Recognizing quality patient care and nursing excellence, the Magnet Recognition Program© is a seal of approval for quality nursing care.
ANMC first earned this distinction in 2003, and remains the first and only Alaska hospital, and first and only tribal hospital in the nation, to receive Magnet Status. Only 5 percent of all U.S. hospitals achieve Magnet Status, and even fewer are designated a second time.
Injury Prevention Training in Anchorage, Jan. 20-23
For more information, click here.
Coming up March 19-20, 2009
Alaska Native Health Research Conference
- Building communications between communities and researchers
- Building capacity for health research in communities
- Bridging the divide between traditional wisdom and western science
- Blending Elder wisdom with youth technology to provide direction and focus in community research
For more information, contact: Maria Cuellar, at 729-2918 or mcuellar@anthc.org .
ANTHC elects new chairman and president
The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC) board of directors has selected Andy Teuber of Kodiak as its chairman and president. Teuber is president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the Kodiak Area Native Association (KANA), a post he has held since May 2006.
Click here for more information about Andy Teuber and ANTHC
Tribal health organizations boost suicide prevention efforts
12/6/09 - Anchorage, AK - To stem the increasing numbers of suicides among Alaska Natives, organizations across Alaska have added staff and stepped up staff training and the sharing of suicide prevention information. Suicide incident rates have spiked in northwestern Alaska during the past few weeks and in southeastern Alaska in recent months.
"We are deeply saddened by the recent suicides and extend our condolences to the families affected by the loss of a loved one by suicide,'" said Kathleen Graves, PhD, Director of Behavioral Health, Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium. "It's been said that one person's death by suicide affects at least six people. We know that within the Alaska Native population this number exceeds six when you think of the extended tribal families also affected. In villages, a suicide can have a devastating emotional effect on the entire community." More...
The Alaska Brain Injury Network will offer provider training and hold its board meeting from Jan. 21 to Jan. 23 in Sitka. For more information, click here.
Click here to see the Oct-Dec 2008 Mukluk Telegraph, with articles about:
- ANTHC 10-year anniversary
- Hidden costs of missed appointments
- ANTHC aids villages preparing for higher fuel costs
- Health care aides for elders in demand
- Environmental innovation grants for tribes
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Healthy Alaska Natives Foundation
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First U.S.-trained Dental Health Aides Therapists graduate
Click here or the image above to view a short presentation on the benefits of Dental Health Aides to Alaskans. Click here for a low-res version.
In December 2008, for the first time, the nation's first dental health aide training center graduated its first Dental Health Aide Therapists. For more information about DENTEX, the Dental Health Aide Therapist training program, click here. For additional information, click here.
The U.S. Public Health Service website includes information on everything from the need for the program and its history, to the rigorous Dental Health Aide Therapist training and certification process. To visit that site, click on: http://www.phs-dental.org/depac/newfile50.html .
