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...

For years, health care has been faced with ever-expanding work demands from regulators and payers for charting, as well as demands for population health performance. Often, the consequence has been...

The health care industry is struggling with staffing shortages and leaders are trying harder than ever to figure out how to support the workforce. Leaders set the direction for the organization,...

Effective teamwork is important in many different fields, but none more so than the field of health care. Having high-performing teams at a health care organization, both in the direct provision...

To document the history and operation of Southcentral Foundation’s Nuka System of Care, and to share information about how the Alaska Native community built a health care system that has been...

Southcentral Foundation would like to thank everyone who attended the annual Nuka System of Care conference. The conference was attended by more than 130 people from around the world. In...

Southcentral Foundation’s annual Nuka System of Care Conferenceis coming soon! This conference enables attendees to learn about SCF’s two-time Malcolm Baldrige Award-winning Nuka System of Care...

When Southcentral Foundation surveyed the Alaska Native community upon establishing the Nuka System of Care, the community identified behavioral health as one of its top needs. In an effort to...

The National Indian Health Board’s annualNational Tribal Health Conferencewill be held from May 1-5, 2023 in Anchorage, Alaska. This conference provides an opportunity for tribal organizations...

One of the core tenets of Southcentral Foundation’s Nuka System of Care, reflected in its corporate goals, is that of health care as a shared responsibility. One example of this is how at SCF,...