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Evan Erickson/KYUKThe project, made possible with the support of the Indian Health Service, will make the 49,000-square-foot facility more than one and half times larger. It will double the number of available beds, from 18 to 36. -
Gabby Salgado/KYUKThe city of Marshall says multiple families have received precautionary vaccinations after multiple community members handled puppies that had been living alongside a dog that later tested positive for rabies.
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The extension of the StrongHearts Native Helpline aims to keep culture and the reality of rural communities at the heart of its service. -
The $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program was authorized as part of the Republican-backed “One Big Beautiful Bill.” At a news conference in Anchorage, U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan said the program has the potential to reshape Alaska’s health care system in a way that benefits everybody. -
Experts say there are several things families can do to protect their infants, including having a sober caregiver and a safe sleep space. -
The Alaska Institute for Justice launched the resource early, to help people affected by the recent Western Alaska storm. -
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski called the program a “lifesaver” for residents in Alaska when questioning Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about its future. -
On the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, researchers from the University of Alaska Fairbanks have worked with Alaska Native villages to build suicide prevention programs focused on community strengths, rather than just mitigating risks. The approach has shown such promise it’s now being piloted in a totally different group: the U.S. military. -
An innovative program built around Yup’ik culture is helping to lead the way in the national conversations around the issue of suicide prevention. Financial and logistical obstacles have made implementation difficult in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, where suicide rates have remained high. -
For decades, the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta has been home to the nation’s highest rates of suicide. In the 1980s, the backlash to a Pulitzer Prize-winning series helped prompt decades of work from Indigenous leaders to build innovative prevention programs from within the region focused on community strengths. -
A comprehensive study by UAA researchers of childbirths over two decades shows geographic disparities and numerous risk factors, some of them cumulative. -
Experts say Medicaid cuts would drive more Alaskans to emergency care, increase health care costs for all, and could harm the state's economy.
