ANTHC — statewide nonprofit Tribal health organization serving Alaska's 229 federally recognized tribes. Operates the Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage in partnership with Southcentral Foundation.
4000 Ambassador Dr, Anchorage, AK 99508, USA
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Allison Kelleher
“There are also 3 borough propositions on the ballot addressing tax revenues, the timing of municipal elections, and whether ballots should be hand-counted or electronically tabulated. In rural areas, Regional Education Attendance Area, or REAA, elections are also happening tomorrow. These elections determine school board seats in communities outside organized boroughs. Do you know your municipal election voting spot? Polls will be open from 7 AM to 8 PM, and you can find out where to vote by visiting www.alaska.gov/elections.”Tanana Chiefs Conference: TCC Weekly Episode 67 · Oct 5, 2026
Allison Kelleher
“Municipal elections are tomorrow. In Fairbanks, voters will decide seats on the Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly and School Board, as well as the Fairbanks and North Pole City Councils.”Tanana Chiefs Conference: TCC Weekly Episode 67 · Oct 5, 2026
Allison Kelleher
“Both forums are virtual so you can join from your community. TCC will share information on how to participate.”Tanana Chiefs Conference: TCC Weekly Episode 67 · Oct 5, 2026
Allison Kelleher
“Looking ahead to the November 3rd general election, Tanana Chiefs Conference is hosting two virtual candidate forums. The first, Tuesday, October 6th, will feature candidates for the U.S. House, followed by the second forum on Thursday, October 8th, featuring candidates for Governor and the State House District 36. Both forums run from noon to 2 PM Alaska time. Candidates will discuss issues important to tribes and rural communities, including subsistence, public safety, housing, healthcare, and the cost of living. The forums are nonpartisan and TCC does not endorse candidates.”Tanana Chiefs Conference: TCC Weekly Episode 67 · Oct 5, 2026
Speaker C
“Chairman Hurd's H.R. 8954, The Tribal Regulatory Reform Regulatory Reform Act takes an important step to boost economic opportunities in Indian Country. It transfers all administrative responsibilities and jurisdiction of the Indian Tribal Regulatory Reform and Business Development Act from the Department of Commerce to the Interior.”House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs (Begich): Legislative Hearing · Jun 9, 2026
Hurd
“The lack of veterinary services in rural communities has disproportionately impacted tribal communities, particularly children. In some areas of the United States, communities experience 365 dog bites a year, or essentially one dog bite every day. That alarming number is an unacceptable standard that communities have faced for far too long. Currently, IHS does not have the authority to provide care or funding related to zoonotic disease prevention or veterinary care, despite this care being important to reducing the public's risk of disease transmission or injury.”House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs (Begich): Legislative Hearing · Jun 9, 2026
Federal grant will add two operating rooms at the Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage
The Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage will add two operating rooms with a $1.5 million congressionally directed HRSA grant, adding about 1,560 procedures a year.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1w ago2 min read
Alaska has five weeks to commit $33 million in federal rural health money
Alaska has about $33 million of its $272.2 million first-year rural health award left to commit before a firm federal deadline on Oct. 30.
by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min read
Alaska Native tribes begin five-year youth suicide prevention programs
Ten Alaska Native tribes and tribal health organizations will begin five-year youth suicide prevention programs Sept. 30 with about $4.1 million in federal grants.
by Maggie AlaskaNews2w ago2 min read
Southwest Alaska carried most of the state's tuberculosis cases last year
Southwest Alaska accounted for 46 of the state's 77 tuberculosis cases in 2025, a rate about nineteen times Anchorage's, according to the state epidemiology section.
by Walter AlaskaNews3w ago2 min read
Rabies is climbing among wildlife across the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta
The Alaska Department of Health said Friday that terrestrial rabies activity has increased in enzootic areas including the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta since early 2026, and it is routing providers to the Section of Epidemiology for exposure assessments and post-exposure prophylaxis guidance.
by Walter AlaskaNews3w ago2 min read
Nine EPA climate grants for Alaska projects ended with 99 percent of $151 million unspent
Nine EPA climate grants worth $151 million to Alaska tribes and Native-serving nonprofits, funded under the Inflation Reduction Act, were terminated with under 1% spent.
by Walter AlaskaNews4w ago3 min read
Tribal consortium takes ownership of Alaska Native Medical Center
The Indian Health Service transferred ownership of the Alaska Native Medical Center to the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium on Aug. 24, 2026, opening access to uncapped federal lease payments while the legal authority for the conveyance remains undocumented.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
The White House wanted the Denali Commission closed, and it grew instead
The Denali Commission went eight months without an approved work plan while routing roughly $255 million in other agencies' money into rural Alaska.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago3 min read
Tribal consortium takes ownership of Alaska Native Medical Center
The Indian Health Service transferred ownership of the Alaska Native Medical Center to the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium on Aug. 24, 2026, a conveyance documented only by the recipient's own announcement.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago3 min read
A statewide suicide prevention activity is open to any Alaska resident through Sept. 10
The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium is running a statewide online scavenger hunt and candle-lighting activity Sept. 1-10, followed by a survey Sept. 10-15 with $100 Amazon gift card drawings, alongside free telehealth counseling for adult Tribal beneficiaries.
by Alaska News1mo ago2 min read
Volunteers will build naloxone kits in Anchorage on Overdose Awareness Day
Volunteers will assemble naloxone kits for statewide distribution Monday, Aug. 31, at the Fairview Recreation Center in Anchorage. The Alaska Department of Health cites preliminary state figures showing 238 Alaskans died of opioid overdoses in 2025.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
Most of Alaska's 2030 health goals are off track, new assessment finds
The Alaska Department of Health and the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium released a revised Healthy Alaskans 2030 State Health Assessment on Friday, updating a 2019 baseline and setting up a 2026 revision of the state health improvement plan.
by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago1 min read
In Ouzinkie, one lake is water and power, so the village is building solar
Ouzinkie has broken ground on a 297-kilowatt solar array and 1-megawatt-hour battery. Mayor Elijah Jackson says the village ran its lake, which serves as both hydropower reservoir and drinking water source, lower than it wanted last winter during freeze-ups.
by Maggie AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read
UAA students to train inside ANTHC facilities under new workforce partnership
The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium and UAA have launched a partnership placing university students in clinical and professional settings at ANTHC, which employs more than 4,000 people, as the consortium expands facilities using contract support cost settlement funds.
by Melinda Communities.News1mo ago2 min read
20 Alaska Native students are training to bring health care home to rural communities
The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium awarded 20 scholarships to Alaska Native and American Indian students in health care fields, many aiming to practice in rural and tribal communities.
by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read
Senators move to renew the grants behind rural Alaska's telehealth links
Grant funding for videoconferencing links between rural Alaska providers and specialist teams is set to lapse after this fiscal year. Sen. Lisa Murkowski and three colleagues introduced the ECHO Reauthorization Act on Monday to renew it.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read
Federal government to pay ANTHC $463 million over unpaid health costs
The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium will receive $463 million in a federal settlement over unpaid contract support costs for tribal health care across Alaska.
by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read
Four TCC employees selected for ANTHC leadership programs
Tanana Chiefs Conference announced Monday that four employees were selected for competitive nine-month ANTHC leadership development programs, placing two IT staff in Pathways to Leadership and two administrators in the LEAD program.
by Maggie AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read
Three art commission calls open to Alaska Native and American Indian artists close by Aug. 14
The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium and Ketchikan's Totem Heritage Center both face July 31 submission deadlines for Alaska Native and American Indian artists; Alaska Pacific University's commission for its Anchorage campus closes Aug. 14.
by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read
ANTHC skilled nursing facility moves into finish phases ahead of January 2027 opening
The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium reported Tuesday that its 80-bed skilled nursing facility on the Alaska Native Health Campus is now in simultaneous interior and exterior finish work, with completion set for January 2027, a delay from the original summer 2026 target.
by Maggie AlaskaNewsadded 2mo ago2 min read
Kodiak Borough OKs Water Upgrade for Village of Karluk
The Kodiak Island Borough Planning and Zoning Commission voted 5-0 Wednesday to grant the Native Village of Karluk a conditional use permit to upgrade its water treatment facility, with the project aimed at providing a year-round source of potable water to the remote Kodiak Island community.
by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago2 min read
House panel hears bill to move tribal regulatory authority to Interior
A House subcommittee took testimony June 9 on legislation that would transfer a dormant 2000 tribal regulatory reform mandate from Commerce to Interior, 25 years after the authority was supposed to convene.
by Alaska Newsadded 3mo ago2 min read
Begich bill would let the Indian Health Service fund rabies shots and spay/neuter in rural Alaska
Rep. Nick Begich's H.R. 8473 would let the Indian Health Service fund rabies vaccination and spay/neuter in rural Alaska, where rabies is endemic in foxes.
by Alaska Newsadded 3mo ago2 min read
Alaska Native Medical Center offers free mass-casualty triage training
Alaska Native Medical Center is offering free online licenses for advanced triage training through year-end. The course teaches rapid patient sorting during mass-casualty incidents for both pre-hospital and hospital teams.
by Alaska News4mo ago1 min read
Cold-injury hospitalizations rose among Alaska's unhoused over the past decade, state finds
New state health data reveals that nearly a quarter (23.3%) of all cold exposure injuries requiring hospitalization in Alaska are directly caused by homelessness, with people without housing facing 8.3 times higher odds of cold injury than housed residents—a concrete quantification of a preventable public health crisis.
by Walter AlaskaNews4mo ago2 min read