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Blog, January 2025

Workforce Development Series: Part 2

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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.

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January 9, 2025
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Blog, December 2024

Workforce Development Series: Part 1

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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.

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December 17, 2024
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Blog, November 2024

Three Customer Satisfaction Measures Tracked in SCF’s Nuka System of Care

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

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November 19, 2024
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Blog, November 2024

Using Native Traditions to Support Incarcerated Men

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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.

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November 4, 2024
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Blog, September 2024

Southcentral Foundation’s Document Library

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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.

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September 18, 2024
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August 2024, Blog

Operations, Satisfaction and Logistics as Clinical Quality Measures

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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.

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August 23, 2024
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August 2024, Blog

Southcentral Foundation’s New Integrated Care Teams Training

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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.

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August 5, 2024
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Blog, July 2024

Thank You to Nuka System of Care Conference Attendees

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

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July 2, 2024
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Blog, June 2024

Reducing Harm with Predictive Modeling and Impact Analysis

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

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June 6, 2024
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April 2024, Blog

Encounter Optimization at Southcentral Foundation

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

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April 18, 2024
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