The Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation is urging the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services to change how hospitals connect patients to intensive care beds across Alaska.
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Hospitals say a disaster declaration would help Alaska cope with record hospitalizations
Hospitals in Southcentral Alaska are in crisis, and the head of the state hospital association wants Gov. Mike Dunleavy to issue a disaster declaration to help ease the pressure.
Juneau faces biggest COVID surge yet, and contact tracers can’t keep up
Juneau Deputy City Manager Robert Barr said Juneau was seeing case numbers twice as high as during the peak of last November’s wave.
To fill gaps in rural Alaska, health care professionals learn to work in environments with fewer resources
Traditional medical training for professionals like family practitioners doesn’t necessarily cover emergencies that rural health care personnel may have to address in the field or a small clinic when there isn’t a hospital nearby.
Red Cross honors Igiugig woman for helping light runway during late-night medevac
Nelson said lighting up the runway is just another example of the community coming together.
Watch: Sitka Coast Guard crew rescues injured hiker on Admiralty Island
The patient was a 69-year-old man who fell while hiking near his home.
Rise in Y-K Delta’s severe COVID-19 cases linked to Christmas gatherings
The overall number of new, confirmed COVID-19 cases in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta is declining. But the number of severe infections — ones that require hospitalization and medevacs — is going up.
Here’s what it’s like to be medevaced to Anchorage from rural Alaska with COVID-19
When elder Esther Green was medevaced to Anchorage, no one could accompany her. Later, while undergoing treatment in Providence Hospital’s intensive care unit, they could not visit or talk to her for more than two weeks.
Unable to reach hospital because of weather, Pilot Station man dies of COVID-19
A 37-year-old man in Pilot Station died from COVID-19 at the village health clinic in late November before he could be transported to a hospital. Stormy conditions prevented a medevac from reaching him, his family said.
Mertarvik’s lack of a commercial airport may have already cost lives
The Alaska Department of Transportation will only fund one airport between Newtok and Mertarvik, although both villages have over 100 residents.