Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage, the state’s largest health care facility, earlier invoked the same guidelines. The standards allow overwhelmed hospitals to modify their usual, expected level of care. in Bethel announced the activation of the guidelines in a statement posted on its website Wednesday, the same day the facility was operating at capacity. AlaskaĪnchorage: A second hospital in Alaska has invoked crisis standards of care, allowing a committee of physicians to determine clinical decisions regarding patient treatment as the state continues to see a spike in COVID-19 cases. The money will also help recruit and retain scientists and physicians in priority areas such as pulmonology, oncology and neurology through endowed chairs and professorships, officials said.
An additional $5 million is being contributed by Triton Health Systems, bringing the total pledge to $100 million.
The medical school will be named for Heersink, and the money will be used to establish global health and biomedical innovation institutes, university officials said. University trustees announced the gift from Dr. Birmingham: An eye surgeon is donating $95 million to the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s medical school in what officials said is the largest philanthropic pledge in the university’s history.
