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As part of its efforts to provide comprehensive healthcare in the region it serves, Southcentral Foundation operates 17 Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs). An FQHC is defined as “a community-based health care provider that receives federal funding to provide comprehensive primary care services to underserved populations.”(1) 15 of the FQHCs SCF operates are located in rural Alaska, while two are located in Anchorage.
Southcentral Foundation’s integrated care teams are built on strong relationships, shared accountability, and customer-owner leadership. By working together and listening to customer-owners, teams provide coordinated, whole-person care that reflects the needs and priorities of the communities they serve.
The Strategic Planning Playbook details how to build and implement a strategic planning process at an organization. It is based on SCF’s process but can be adapted to fit the unique needs of any organization.
Southcentral Foundation has implemented a Leadership Development and Succession Planning System. This supports SCF in growing its own leaders to ensure continuity of leadership that supports SCF’s vision and mission.
As part of its mission of working together with the Native Community to achieve wellness through health and related services, Southcentral Foundation employs an Intensive Case Management (ICM) team, which is a community-based program offering support to customer-owners ages 18 and older who experience underlying behavioral health challenges causing difficulties in daily living.
Sarah Yardley is an Associate Professor of Palliative Medicine at University College London and a Winston Churchill Fellow. She attended SCF’s Nuka System of Care Conference in 2025 and has written the following blog based on her experience. We are honored to share her thoughts with you.
To address the decrease in childhood immunization rates, SCF’s improvement team, and medical and operational leaders convened and began reviewing data on childhood vaccinations.
With the 15th anniversary of Southcentral Foundation’s Nuka System of Care Conference coming this year, we’d like to take a moment to reflect on how it all began.
Through a needs assessment done by Southcentral Foundation, cardiovascular disease was identified as one of the greatest health concerns of Alaska Native people. In response to not meeting the 75th percentile goal for the “Controlling High Blood Pressure” Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) measure, SCF formed a workgroup to determine ways to make improvements to blood pressure control for customer-owners.
Southcentral Foundation continually works to make care as accessible as possible for customer-owners. One of SCF’s Operational Principles is “Access is optimized and waiting times are limited,” reflecting SCF’s commitment to access to care.
