National Trends
This national trend reflects a growing shortage of nurses and physicians, especially in rural areas.
What is the healthcare workforce shortage?
Confirming a patient’s identity using two identifiers (like name and date of birth) helps prevent this type of error.
What is a patient identification error?
This electronic system allows providers to store, access, and share patient medical information in real time.
What is an electronic health record (EHR)?
This health system serves a vast region of Interior Alaska, covering roughly 250,000 square miles.
What is Foundation Health Partners?
This organization was established to support hospital services after a devastating local disaster.
What is the Greater Fairbanks Community Hospital Foundation?
This major federal funding source for hospitals is expected to face significant cuts over the next decade, impacting access to care.
What is Medicaid funding?
This simple practice—cleaning hands before and after patient contact—is one of the most effective ways to prevent infection.
What is hand hygiene?
This secure online tool allows patients to view test results and procedure reports directly, often before hearing from their provider.
What is a patient portal?
This service line treats conditions related to the heart and blood vessels, including cardiac procedures and monitoring.
What is the Porter Heart and Vascular center?
This annual event is the Foundation's major fundraiser each year.
What is The Gala?
Financial pressures are causing hospitals to invest in technology and efficiency strategies like this process that manages billing and collections.
What is revenue cycle management?
This document outlines a patient’s preferences for care if they cannot speak for themselves.
What is an advance directive?
Virtual visits using video and digital tools are known as this.
What is telehealth?
This walk-in clinic service offers same-day care for minor illnesses and injuries when you can’t get in to see your primary provider.
What is Foundation Health Partners 1st Care?
Unlike many foundations, 100% of donations here go directly to this, with no fees taken out.
What are donor-designated programs, services, or equipment?
This widespread issue among clinicians is marked by emotional exhaustion and depersonalization.
What is burnout?
This approach analyzes errors by identifying underlying system causes.
What is root cause analysis?
This imaging technology uses a small amount of radioactive material to show how organs and tissues are functioning, often helping detect cancer and cardiac issues.
What is a PET scanner?
A specialty practice using hands-on treatments to relieve restrictions of normal motion in the muscular system, bones, fascia, nerves and vascular systems.
What is Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine (OMM)?
This entity was the largest and most comprehensive clinic in the state of Alaska and was purchased by the Foundation in 2008.
What is Tanana Valley Clinic?
This 2010 law accelerated insurance expansion and care delivery reform.
What is the Affordable Care Act?
Encouraging staff and patients to speak up about concerns helps create this type of organizational culture.
What is a culture of safety?
This emerging technology uses algorithms to assist in diagnostics and operations.
What is artificial intelligence?
Many cardiovascular conditions can be treated without extensive surgery these treatments are done locally at FHP.
What is the Cath Lab?
People First. Community Focused. Excellence Every Time.
What is the FHP mission statement?