"Bartlett Regional Hospital"

The team is made up of a Capital City Fire Rescue paramedic and a Bartlett Regional Hospital clinician. Crisis care consists of immediate response to a situation or crisis, further assessment of the person undergoing the emergency, stabilization, and follow-up involving other services.

For the past two decades, Dr. Weiden would travel to Juneau monthly to see patients who might have otherwise flown to Seattle to see a specialist. He also provided remote care for patients in other Southeast communities.

The grant’s approval comes two months after the permanent closure of Bartlett Regional Hospital’s Rainforest Recovery Center.

This comes a month after Bartlett Regional Hospitalʼs Rainforest Recovery Center shut its doors.

Hospital leaders say since June, nine staff members at Rainforest have resigned. That’s in large part due to the uncertainty of the program’s lifespan.

Wanner has been the city-owned hospital’s CFO for nearly a year, and his appointment as CEO is just the latest in a string of leadership turnover at the city-owned hospital.