Alaska

Providence Alaska has hired Kenneth D. McCoy Jr. as its first region Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Officer beginning Feb. 14, 2022.

Providence Alaska’s Executive Leadership Team and Providence Kodiak Island Medical Center’s Community Advisory Board have awarded $200,000 in grants to six local organizations.

Kelly Mahay remembers when she wanted to become a nurse. Fresh out of college and armed with a health sciences degree with a focus on rural public health, Mahay traveled to Honduras.

For Andreia Candido, MSN, APRN, AGCNS-BC, health care definitely runs in the family.

Providence Alaska Medical Center (PAMC) has been recognized as the Best Hospital in Alaska for 2021-22 by U.S. News & World Report.

Becoming a new parent can be life changing. Ask Gaylee Newbold, RN at Providence Alaska Medical Center’s Mother Baby Unit and she’ll tell you.

Get the latest information on healthy living and dietary supplements at our free community presentation by Mark Moyad, M.D.

For nurse Marlyce Cozart, RN, checking in with residents at Providence Chiniak Bay Elder House on Kodiak Island is like visiting favorite family members.

Providence Telehealth was recognized in an award to St. Elias Hospital in Anchorage Alaska. St. Elias won an innovation award for their TeleICU and TeleHospitalist programs.

Eleven years ago, everything clicked for Providence Alaska Medical Center nurse Ruben Medrano, BSN, RN. A nursing school instructor introduced him to one of his nurse superpowers.

Providence leaders review the annual report for community investments in Alaska. Learn more.

Practice Greenhealth, the nation’s leading organization dedicated to environmental sustainability in health care, has awarded Providence Alaska Medical Center the Environmental Excellence Award.

The World Health Organization extended the Year of the Nurse and Midwife through 2021. Here in the Providence Alaska Region, we’re celebrating our nurses through a series of stories.

You could say health care is a family affair. For nurse Sam Brownlee, BSN, RN, his chosen career is part of a collective 63-plus-year family tradition of caring for patients in Alaska.

The Providence Kodiak Island Medical Center (PKIMC) laboratory will no longer be performing outpatient blood collection and testing on weekends.

Providence provided $77M in 2020 to help build healthy communities in Alaska. Learn more.

At most, Anchorage operating room nurse Karin Shacklett, BSN, RN has only 15 minutes to personally connect with each patient who comes under her care at Providence Alaska Medical Center.

At Anchorage’s St. Elias Specialty Hospital, Audra McCann, RN, BSN, is that often-unseen nurse on the other side of the computer screen.