June 15, 2006
New clinic opens in Akiak. Health Aides Paula Napoka, Olinka Jones, Titiana Albrite, and Dorothy Andrews (back row) are joined by YKHC’s Andrew Jasper, Traditional Council Chief Moses Owen, and veteran Health Aide Mary Phillip for opening cere
Water Lab Analyst Monica Thompson was awarded Large System Lab Analyst of the Year at this year's Alaska Water Wastewater Management Association (AWWMA) conference in Anchorage on May 10
Customer Service Improvements
A new office for our customers who need assistance with their billing statements and a new call system and camera at the hospital ramp.
Diabetes Prevention and Control
Second Annual Senior Health and Fitness Day
Things to do once or twice a year...
Healthy Hearts Program
Cooking and Eating to Lower Your Cholesterol
Lil Pardners Ride 'em at the Bike Rodeo
171 helmets were fitted for children and dozens more children attended with their helmets already on and ready to ride.
The Clinic Connection
YKHC provider elected to Academy of Family Physicians
Pediatrics in the Last Frontier
It was another Tuesday on the wards. I had just surveyed my patients when my pager went off. A woman was in labor at 30 weeks on the coast and I had half an hour until the Medevac.
News about the Respiratory Virus Study
Tania Thomas RN and Mary Jackson CNA are familiar figures to a lot of the parents in the Delta. Currently they are working on several research projects that involve children and pregnant ladies.
The Pharmacy Window
Tis the Sneezin' for Seasonal Allergies
The Word from WIC
According to food safety and public health experts, millions of illnesses in this country can be traced to foodborne bacteria each year
Water treatment plants are designed to eliminate giardia
The evidence is all around, wood chips, fallen trees and intricately constructed stick homes that would make an engineer proud. Yes, the paluqtuqs (beavers) are here.
National HIV Testing Day is June 27
The Center for Disease Control estimates that between 180,000 and 280,000 people nationwide are HIV-positive, but are unaware of their status.
Nicotine Control
The Dangers of Iqmik Use
World No Tobacco Day
Physical Therapy
Exercises for the Elbow
A new clinic for Akiak
Villagers celebrate Grand Opening on June 6
Local sixth graders tour hospital
On May 18 approximately 95 sixth grade students from Ayaprun Elitnaurvik and Kilbuck elementary schools participated in the Annual Sixth Grade Hospital Tour.
Samples show no Bird Flu found in YK Delta
All of the 1,210 samples tested so far from the YK Delta have come back negative for H5N1, the avian flu virus.