Blogs posted in 2024.

ASTP presentation

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, with only 86% of needed workers available by 2037. One way Southcentral Foundation addresses this is by investing in workforce development opportunities.

people taking notes

Southcentral Foundation tracks several different measures of customer satisfaction, asking customer-owners about them in post-appointment surveys.

FWW presenting to incarcerated men

One example of this is the Akisni Warrior Lodge, a program that blends Native traditions with rehabilitation at the James River Correctional Center in North Dakota.

documents from the document library

SCF uses these documents internally to support the provision of care, but SCF’s Learning Institute has also made many of these documents available for other organizations to download through our Document Library.

Steve Tierney presenting at Nuka Conference

We created lists of what to ask, but aside from the basic medical care we referred everything else out and worked hard on creating the workflows.

integrated care team working together

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 Anchorage, Alaska.

Karen McIntire presenting at Nuka Conference

Each year, SCF hosts this conference to allow people from around the world to visit our campus in Anchorage, Alaska and learn about our award-winning Nuka System of Care

Doctor typing on a laptop

Predictive modeling helps SCF calculate risk for customer-owners, and impact analysis allows SCF to evaluate interventions to determine their effectiveness.

Employee at desk answering the phone

Encounter optimization takes a different approach, where SCF looks at each customer-owner need and determines the optimal approach to address each one.

Nuka Conference attendees listening to a presentation

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 health outcomes for customer-owners while also reducing costs.