Alaska is projected to have the highest number of nurse vacancies by 2030, with 23% of positions going unfilled, according to an Oct. 24 news release from Renton, Wash.-based Providence, the ...

Wildflower Court, a long-term care facility, in Juneau, Alaska. The facility has had an outbreak of COVID-19 among residents and staff, but despite the vulnerable patient population, most cases have ...

Incoming staff nurses get trained on IV equipment at the Alaska Native Medical Center on Friday, Oct. 1, 2021 in Anchorage. (Lex Treinen/Alaska Public Media) Alaska is short on health care workers — ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy on Thursday expanded the special session agenda to include bills dealing with nursing and telehealth amid a surge in COVID-19 cases in the state. The ...

For decades, there were just a few in-state education options for Alaskans considering a career in nursing. Those options have expanded in recent years — and local health experts say the growth is a ...

Alaska’s Medicaid program may run out of money as soon as the second week of June, leaving doctors, hospitals and nursing homes with unpaid bills for legally required care. The state will eventually ...

Despite a 7.0 magnitude earthquake hitting Alaska over the weekend — tearing open roads and jostling buildings — the state’s skilled nursing facilities have remained up and running, officials said ...

ANCHORAGE — Alaska regulators are working with an Alaska Native organization that wants to serve its nursing home residents nutrient-rich seal oil, a traditional staple that’s banned in public ...

The space, which is essentially two hospital bedrooms, better simulates what students will encounter in a clinical setting.

Alaska Chief Medical Officer Anne Zink, left, and Alaska Regional Hospital Chief Medical Officer Keri Gardner discuss the first positive case of coronavirus in Alaska during a press conference in ...

One of Anchorage, Alaska’s largest nursing homes was fined more than $310,000 by CMS after investigators discovered multiple instances of extended isolation of and chronic bedsores on residents, the ...

We have all watched the horror stories from nursing homes in the Lower 48 that have experienced the ravaging effects of COVID-19. The American Health Care Association’s president, Mark Parkinson, ...