Registration is open for Southcentral Foundation’s annual Nuka Conference! SCF has been hosting Nuka Conferences since 2011. They have attracted visitors from around the world to learn best practices...

In the field of health care, it is often important for organizations to be able to make changes quickly and efficiently. Decentralizing the decision-making process can support quick improvement, but...

Southcentral Foundation’s methods of data collection, as well as how SCF uses data for improvement, have been previously discussed on this blog. However, SCF also makes tools available to...

Southcentral Foundation is hosting the Virtual Nuka Conference from February 12th to 14th. The conference will be held fully online and will feature 16 interactive sessions on various aspects of...

Part one of this two-part series on workforce development covered Southcentral Foundation’s general approach to workforce training and support. This part will go in-depth about one aspect of SCF’s...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...