It wasn’t clear how many tests are awaiting results. Alaska has 21 acute care, tribal and critical access hospitals across the state, plus many more clinics and skilled nursing centers.

This map shows ... the nearest hospital offering the kind of inpatient medical care needed to treat coronavirus. Even though there are about 5,250 of these acute care and critical access hospitals ...

In addition to a population ceiling, Dunleavy's amended order defines small communities as those without "a Critical Access Hospital, Sole Community Hospital or Acute Care Hospital." [As Alaska ...

Even in cities with big hospitals, the novel coronavirus is testing the limits of the modern health care system. But fighting the virus in rural Alaska presents additional challenges: Some of ...

Here, he explains why rural healthcare is such a big part of his life, why critical access ... to Alaska and got a job with the state Department of Health and Social Services auditing hospitals ...