Governance gap; Alaska hospitals try to improve CEO-board relations.(The Week In Healthcare, Chief Executive Officer) Modern Healthcare (7/5/2004)
...healthcare leaders throughout Alaska who, in addition to weathering...improve their governance. Alaska State Hospital & Nursing Home Association President...trustees' locations in isolated Alaska communities add to travel time and costs, the ...

Care on the frontier ;Alaska hospital meets challenges not found in `lower 48'. Modern Healthcare (3/6/2000)
...practice of healthcare in Alaska is worlds apart from...patients may have to travel 40 miles for medical...Derr, president of the Alaska State Hospital and Nursing Home Association...is as much a part of Alaska's mystique as the...

GUITARIST'S MUSIC SOOTHES THE SICK CLASSICAL MUSICIAN ROBERT BLUESTONE TRAVELS ACROSS THE COUNTRY MAKING MUSIC FOR PEOPLE IN NURSING HOMES AND HOSPICES.(LOCAL) Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI) (11/7/2006)
...Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission. Nursing-home visits by performers are nothing...country. "Literally, from Florida to Alaska," said Bluestone, who jokingly refers...classical guitarist, visited Madison-area nursing homes and a hospice center Monday in a...

Kodiak moments: an adventure becomes a life The Boston Globe (9/10/1994)
...considers staying in Alaska permanently. For...spend winter in Alaska, at a nursing job on the mainland...Boston, usually in nursing homes, so she could save her money and travel for long periods...like Boston and Alaska ...

THE REV. HARRY BROWN, 91, PROLIFIC PREACHER.(News)(Obituary) The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) (2/10/2006)
...That practice grew into creation of Brown's Tour and Travel Service, which provided escorted tours for more than...Avondale, died Monday. She was a laundry worker with Alaska Acres Nursing Home. Services: noon Saturday at Jamison & Jamison...

Southeast hospitals: small hospitals are big economic engines.(HEALTH & MEDICINE) Alaska Business Monthly (6/1/2009)
...aimed at convincing Alaska youth that careers in...hospitals--especially in Alaska--would be a really...executive director of the Alaska State Hospital and Nursing Home Association...the need for medical travel has been reduced through...

GOOD MEDICINE NURSING SCHOOL'S REUNION BRINGS OLD FRIENDS TOGETHER.(News) Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) (8/31/2003)
...or an opportunity to travel out of small hometowns...they sported paper nursing hats, ``which we didn...friends. But nowadays the nursing profession is facing...became interested in the nursing profession after working...traveled from Palmers, ...

Offers diverse for a nurse // Recruiters here from Alaska, Palm Springs Chicago Sun-Times (2/1/1991)
...adventurous trip to Kotzebue, Alaska, 30 miles north of the...bother calling your local travel agent - unless, of course...attending the Chicago Nursing Job Fair in the Palmer...serenaded nurses and nursing students with offers...The much-publicized ...

Emergency care training for school nurses in Fairbanks, Alaska. Journal of School Health (10/1/1994)
...students requiting nursing services at school...health educators in Alaska could provide quality...continental U.S., travel is time-consuming...interest in traveling to Alaska to present their...and University of Alaska-Fairbanks, ...