Joe Wanner has previously worked as Bartlett’s CFO and controller.
Health
Suicide prevention program teaches Alaska students how to identify their own strength
Lower Kuskokwim School District pits cultural, personal strengths against adversity.
Vaccine hesitancy affects dog-owners, too, with many questioning the rabies shot
A survey finds that more than half of dog parents are doubtful about giving their pups the vaccine for rabies — a lethal disease that vaccination brought under control in the U.S.
The wait for food stamps in Alaska is improving, but applicants still face long delays
There are still about 8,500 pending applications and renewals.
‘Salt and Sex’ puts Alaska writer in national anthology
An article by Fairbanks writer Amy Loeffler will appear in this year’s “Best American Food Writing” anthology.
With pandemic relief money gone, child care centers face difficult cuts
Now that federal emergency funding for child care has expired, daycares face difficult choices about how to operate with less.
Staffing shortages at Alaska pharmacies continue after pandemic-related shakeup
An ongoing shortage of pharmacists means that many Alaska pharmacies are open for fewer hours and have longer wait times to get prescriptions filled.
Report: Alaskans dogged by chronic diseases and many lack healthy lifestyles or regular screenings
Some health problems are connected to poverty or substandard living conditions that are not easily addressed by changes in individual behavior, the new Alaska Chronic Disease Facts report noted.
She received chemo in two states. Why did it cost so much more in Alaska?
Gebel began treatment at Juneau’s Bartlett Regional Hospital after her Seattle doctor taught hospital staffers there how to administer her chemo regimen. Then the bill came.
What happens to health programs if the federal government shuts down?
Medicare and Medicaid are mandatory spending programs and that keeps them relatively safe in the early days of the shutdown, but 42% of the Department of Health’s staff will be furloughed.