The nonprofit Providence hospital system, which includes Alaska’s largest hospital, aggressively pursued payment from needy patients who should’ve been eligible for free care.
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As Providence moves to crisis care, other Alaska hospitals grow strained
COVID-19 patients, most of whom are unvaccinated, are now using about half of the state’s intensive care beds.
Watching COVID patients die takes toll on Alaska’s hospital workers
Health care workers in the state’s emergency rooms and ICUs say watching patients die is becoming routine, and it’s harming their mental health.
Boom in COVID cases prompts Anchorage to open drive-through testing
Demand for COVID-19 testing in Anchorage has soared to nearly quadruple the June daily average.
Two of Alaska’s largest employers institute COVID-19 vaccine requirements
The Southcentral Foundation told employees the vaccine requirement will help workers deliver “the highest level of care and safety” to patients.
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.
Rep. Young released from hospital, recovering from COVID-19
Young said he was admitted to Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage over the weekend but has since been discharged.
Is your Alaska doctor as worried about coronavirus as you are? Maybe not.
At local clinics and hospitals, doctors are fielding lots of questions about coronavirus. Many say they’re counseling patients to take COVID-19 seriously, but not to panic.
Lawmakers seek competitive contract to run psychiatric institute
Rep. Ivy Spohnholz said the department didn’t provide enough information to Chief Procurement Officer Jason Soza for him to be able to adequately review the contract, which would pay Wellpath $225 million over five years.
Anchorage area hospitals report initial wave of earthquake injuries: Two life threatening, but mostly minor
Mat-Su Regional Medical Center says in the first nine hours after the earthquake they saw 99 disaster related injuries.