U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski met with a group of hospital and borough staff to visit Petersburg’s new Wellness, Education & Resource Center, or WERC Building, on May 29. Murkowski secured $8 million in federal funding to help construct the building.
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Petersburg’s first MRI machine now has state approval to start operating. While it’s not up and running just yet, the MRI is nearly ready to start scanning patients at home.
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Katie Holmlund was named one of the Alaska Journal of Commerce’s Top Forty Under 40 awardees. The award recognizes Holmlund’s years of work in creating and expanding outdoor childcare programming in Petersburg.
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Petersburg’s only hospital is gearing up to apply for federal funding through a new five-year program meant to improve rural health care across the U.S. While some aspects of the grant are still up in the air, administrators say the funding could boost hospital programs.
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The Petersburg Medical Center’s Home Health office has moved from the Petersburg Indian Association building back to the hospital’s main campus. Home Health is now in the old Petersburg Public Health offices, next to the hospital’s specialty clinic.
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Petersburg’s first MRI machine is almost ready to begin operating. The medical imaging device has been built, but the hospital must first complete a state certification process before scanning its first patients.
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For years, colonoscopy clinics were few and far between in Petersburg. But the cancer-spotting procedure will be returning in February on what’s expected to be a quarterly basis.
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In honor of Suicide Prevention Month, the Petersburg Indian Association in partnership with the Petersburg Medical Center and the Supporting Health Awareness and Resiliency Education (SHARE) Coalition have put up a temporary memorial to those lost to suicide in Petersburg.
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