PRIMARY CARE CENTER:
I took my camera to work today so I could get some pictures of the place I work. The first building above is the hospital and the second one is the Primary Care Center, where I work. The PCC is two stories with two wings off the main lobby. That is the main lobby above. The Family Medicine Clinic takes the entire third floor of the wing to your right as you look at the building. Administration and Women's Health are across a sky bridge on the left. Below us is Complementary Health (accupuncture, chiropractic and massage) and Patient Education. Below Admin and Women's Health is Pediatrics, Lab, X-ray and the Pharmacy (although there is also a pharmacy located in our waiting area). Opening into the lobby is a coffee shop and an "education cafe" with computers and all sorts of available education as well as a couple of staff to help access information. The Traditional Healing clinic with the Tribal Doctors also open into the lobby. Usually there are Native Alaskans selling their crafts in the lobby area. This is a very, very big facility-family medicine alone has around 30-40 providers!









These pictures were taken from across the street at the hospital, the Alaska Native Medical Center. These are but two buildings on a very large campus! One of the new providers (yes, newer than me-there have been two sets of CompHealth midlevels come in since me) told me she feels like she is working in a resort-I think it feels like working in a museum.
For pictures of the view from my office and the meditation prayer room at ANMC :
http://picasaweb.google.com/dancingwithherbs/AlaskaNativeMedicalCenter