PMID- 18323373
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20080507
LR  - 20221207
IS  - 0002-4538 (Print)
IS  - 0002-4538 (Linking)
VI  - 49
IP  - 2
DP  - 2007 Apr-Jun
TI  - The family wellness warriors initiative.
PG  - 49-54
AB  - Southcentral Foundation (SCF) is an Alaska Native 501(c) (3) non-profit 
      healthcare organization established in 1982 by the Cook Inlet Region, Inc. 
      (CIRI), which is one of thirteen Alaska Native regional corporations created by 
      Congress in 1971 under the terms of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. CIRI 
      established SCF to improve the health and social conditions of Alaska Native 
      people, enhance culture, and empower individuals and families to take charge of 
      their lives. SCF is totally customer-owned and managed by the tribal authority of 
      CIRI. Under the federal Indian Self Determination Act of Public Law 93-638 and 
      Section 325, SCF provides health and human services to approximately 45,000 
      residents within a geographical area of 107,413 square miles extending from the 
      Canadian border on the east to the entire Aleutian Chain and Pribilof Islands on 
      the west. SCF owns and manages primary care services, community services, 
      behavioral health services, dental services, and residential treatment centers. 
      Our funding sources are 45% Indian Health Service funding, 45% Medicare, Medicaid 
      and private insurance, and 10% grants, contracts and research funding. SCF has 
      experienced dramatic growth over the past fifteen years: the workforce increased 
      from fewer than 100 to about 1300 employees, and the operating budget has grown 
      from $3 million to $118 million. While managing nearly two decades of exponential 
      growth, SCF distinguished itself as one of the nation's leading care providers 
      for Alaska Native and American Indian people, launching such innovations as the 
      nation's first fetal alcohol syndrome prevention program and implementing 
      healthcare industry best practices such as a fully-integrated primary care system 
      and system-wide "open access". SCF has drastically changed the healthcare system 
      from a slow bureaucratic system to a customer-responsive, customer-owned and 
      customer-driven healthcare system.
FAU - Gottlieb, Katherine
AU  - Gottlieb K
AD  - Southcentral Foundation, USA.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - Alaska Med
JT  - Alaska medicine
JID - 0370457
SB  - IM
MH  - Alaska
MH  - *Family Health
MH  - *Health Promotion
MH  - *Health Status
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Indians, North American
MH  - *Inuit
MH  - *Program Development
MH  - United States
MH  - United States Indian Health Service
EDAT- 2008/03/08 09:00
MHDA- 2008/05/08 09:00
CRDT- 2008/03/08 09:00
PHST- 2008/03/08 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2008/05/08 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2008/03/08 09:00 [entrez]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Alaska Med. 2007 Apr-Jun;49(2):49-54.