According to the Alaska Hospital & Healthcare Association’s 2024 Alaska Healthcare Workforce Analysis, an additional 1,412 ...

So far this year, 10 nursing homes in Alaska have been cited more than 100 times for health or safety shortfalls, according to state and federal inspection reports. The state has some of the highest ...

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 ...

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 ...

If a new study from the long-term care health insurance company Genworth is to be believed, Alaska is an expensive place to buy a room in a nursing home. In fact, according to Genworth's Cost of Long ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Sep. 23—GOOSE CREEK CORRECTIONAL CENTER — A man slum in a chair in the infirmary, wearing gray sweatpants and covered with a thin blanket. He looks half-asleep. His mouth is open, and his skin has a ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — 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 ...