Southcentral Foundation’s 41,000 customer/owners have helped create a world class health system. Over 200 people gathered together in the lobby of Southcentral Foundation’s Anchorage Native Primary Care Center to celebrate the ground breaking for the phase III expansion. Employees, families, longtime partners, nonprofit partners, and Elders from our Native Community were all in attendance as our board kicked off the construction project. It was a time to reflect on the accomplishments of the Alaska Native people and bless the project as we move forward together.
Now, as planned, construction has begun on what will be an 80,000 square foot addition to the existing ANPCC. We anticipated the need for the expansion a long time ago, and successfully built it into the planning process for our 20-year vision. The expansion has been made possible by careful money management and planning.
Anchorage Native Primary Care Center Phase III is an important project that will accommodate a growing need for outpatient health care in our Native Community. Since the primary care center’s last expansion in 2000, the number of customers in the area has grown from 25,000 to over 41,000 and our clinics have become more crowded. The exponential growth is due in part to the trend of relocation from the villages to Anchorage, which is now increasing by more than 1,500 Alaska Native people annually.
The expansion follows the ongoing SCF facility design priorities of optimizing clinical space and flexibility of use over time. As with our other facilities, the design is driven by customer/owner input. There will be about 200 clinical spaces (exam rooms, counseling rooms, procedure rooms, talking rooms, family rooms) designed similarly to each other with the flexibility to accommodate general clinics and some group/meeting rooms. An emphasis on flexible, team-oriented staffing areas continues as well.
We look forward to the completion of this much needed space. Once finished in late 2009, the building’s design will capture and direct light through an open staircase extending to all three floors, maximizing natural light for customers and their families. Future plans include connecting the ANPCC to the recently completed five-tier parking garage, offering more convenient access.
The addition of the parking garage and ANPCC phase III brings the total investment by SCF in expanded facilities within the Alaska Native Medical Center (ANPCC and hospital) to over $100 million in 2008. In addition, we have nearly $30 million in ANMC supporting clinical facilities for Dental, Optometry, Home Health and the Wellness Center. SCF’s commitment to supporting ANMC excellence in facilities, ongoing delivery system redesign and technical excellence remains a strong, and we are proud of what continues to be achieved in an increasingly challenging financial reality.
On behalf of our Elders, aunties, uncles and relatives as customer/owners, Quyanaasinaq!
(Thank you very much!)
May God bless you.
The Nuka Model of Care
That low rumble you hear is the Health Care Earthquake, caused by Alaska Native and American Indian people marching together toward wellness. As members of the Native Community, we are both customers and owners of our health care. Together, we have created a relationship-based system known as Southcentral Foundation’s Nuka Model of Care. The Nuka Model has gained international recognition as a leading, world class health care system focused on customer/owners and prevention. This model has resulted in a 91 percent customer and employee satisfaction rating, while significantly improving health outcomes for our Native Community. Click here to learn more!
The Family Wellness Warriors Initiative (FWWI) is a movement that brings together leaders of the Alaska Native Community, the faith community, regional corporations and agencies, health care providers, and many other interested people, in an effort to restore wellness to the Alaska Native Community. It specifically addresses all forms of violence that occur within the family. These include child abuse and neglect, sexual abuse, vulnerable adult abuse and neglect, domestic violence, and adult sexual assault.
The Family Wellness Warriors Initiative is able to provide education and training services through grant awards and private donations. We are a non-profit program and in order to continue offering education, training, and healing opportunity’s to the people of Alaska we rely on donation assistance from others who believe in the process and who share a similar desire to end domestic violence, abuse, and neglect in the State of Alaska in this generation.
SCHOLARSHIP: These donations provide scholarship opportunities for those who cannot afford to attend a training event.
TRAVEL: These donations provide travel opportunities for those who are unable to transport themselves from rural Alaskan villages and communities to attend a training event.
LEADERSHIP: These donations provide support to our growing number of volunteers and group leaders who donate their time, energy, and support to assist FWWI in staffing events, speaking and storytelling at events, and leading small groups.
If you are unable to offer donation support but are interested in becoming part of our Prayer Warrior email database, please visit us at www.fwwi.org and email us to let us know you would like added to this database. Joining this prayer database means you will be able to receive and submit prayer request, praises, and updates with FWWI event alumni from around the state.
