One of the top concerns facing health care organizations is workforce shortages. The National Center for Health Workforce Analysis projects a worsening shortage of health care workers in the future,...
Three Customer Satisfaction Measures Tracked in Southcentral Foundation’s Nuka System of Care
Having a good understanding of the customer experience is critical for health care organizations to more effectively make changes and improvements to the system. Although overall customer...
Using Native Traditions to Support Incarcerated Men
Southcentral Foundation’s Family Wellness Warriors (FWW) Nu’iju program has been using Alaska Native values to end cycles of harm for over two decades. Nu’iju does this by building healing...
Southcentral Foundation’s Document Library
Over the decades Southcentral Foundation has been providing health care, SCF has regularly documented procedures and best practices. SCF uses these documents internally to support the provision of...
Operations, Satisfaction and Logistics as Clinical Quality Measures
This is a guest blog from Dr. Steve Tierney, SCF's Senior Medical Director of Quality Improvement. We have all seen the lists of the ills plaguing modern health care. All the categories of unmet...
Southcentral Foundation’s New Integrated Care Teams Training
Southcentral Foundation is pleased to announce that we will be offering an Integrated Care Teams Training on October 16-17. This is an in-person training that will be held on SCF’s campus in...
Thank You to Nuka System of Care Conference Attendees
Southcentral Foundation has just concluded its annual Nuka System of Care Conference! Each year, SCF hosts this conference to allow people from around the world to visit our campus in Anchorage,...
Reducing Harm with Predictive Modeling and Impact Analysis
The effective use of data is critical in the field of health care. Southcentral Foundation has been refining and improving its data systems for many years, including establishing our Data Services...
Encounter Optimization at Southcentral Foundation
With health care organizations under increasing pressure to reduce costs, one area that is worth examination is scheduling and logistics. Ensuring that appointments are handled as efficiently as...
Five Key Takeaways from the Nuka Conference
Each year, Southcentral Foundation hosts the Nuka Conference so that attendees from around the world can visit SCF’s campus in Anchorage, Alaska, and learn how SCF’s Nuka System of Care has improved...
