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==Contents==
==Contents==
* [[Anesthesia Services]]
* [[Audiology]]
* [[:category:Behavioral Health|Behavioral Health]]
* [[Case Management]]
* [[Case Management]]
* [[lab|Laboratory Services]]
* [[Community Relations/Translation]]
* [[Radiology|Radiology / Diagnostic Imaging]]
* [[:category:Dental|Dental]]
* [[Pharmacy]]
* [[Respiratory|Respiratory / Cardiopulmonary Services]]
* [[Physical Therapy]]
* [[Wound Care]]
* [[Diabetes]]
* [[Diabetes]]
* [[Social Services]]
* [[Community Relations/Translation]]
* [[Tobacco Cessation]]
* [[Dietary]]
* [[Dietary]]
* [[WIC]]
* [[Dental]]
* [[Optometry]]
* [[Audiology]]
* [[Behavioral Health]]
* [[Anesthesia Services]]
* [[Endoscopy Lab]]
* [[Endoscopy Lab]]
* [[Family Infant Toddler (FIT)]]
* [[Infection Control|Infection Control / Employee Health]]
* [[lab|Laboratory Services]]
* [[LTC|Long Term Care Facility (YK Elders Home)]]
* [[Morgue]]
* [[Morgue]]
* [[Infection Control|Infection Control / Employee Health]]
* [[Optometry]]
* [[SART|Sexual Abuse Response Unit]]
* [[OR|Surgical Services / Operating Room]]
* [[OR|Surgical Services / Operating Room]]
* [[Pharmacy]]
* [[Physical Therapy]]
* [[Prematernal Home]]
* [[Prematernal Home]]
* [[Qavartarvik Hostel]]
* [[Qavartarvik Hostel]]
* [[LTC|Long Term Care Facility (YK Elders Home)]]
* [[Radiology|Radiology / Diagnostic Imaging]]
 
* [[Respiratory/Cardiopulmonary Services]]
==WIC==
* [[SART|Sexual Abuse Response Unit]]
 
* [[Social Services]]
==Community Relations/Translation==
* [[Tobacco Cessation]]
 
* [[Women Infant Children (WIC)]]
 
* [[Wound Care]]
== Anesthesia Services ==
All levels of anesthesia services are provided for our patient population. The clinical ages range from 2 years old to the elderly. We do not offer elective surgery to patients under two except for short procedures, i.e. myringotomies. We do not offer elective services to patients with American Society of Anesthesiologist (ASA) classification 3 or above except in emergency circumstances. The Department of Anesthesiology provides services for elective procedures Monday - Friday, 8 AM - 4:30 PM. Anesthesia services are available on-call for emergencies and emergent cases 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, including holidays. == Audiology == The primary functions provided are diagnostic, audiology evaluations, specialized auditory pathway evaluations, hearing aid dispensing, and auditory rehabilitation. The audiology program maintains theENT Data Base and schedules ENT Specialty Field Clinics. The site for these services are at YKDRH but patients are also seen in the villages and the audiologist works with hearing impaired students in the schools. Clients range in age from birth to elderly. The hours of operation are Monday - Friday, 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM.
 
== Endoscopy Lab ==
The Endoscopy Lab provides inpatient and outpatient elective, diagnostic, urgent and emergency care to all ages. Elective procedures will be performed from 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Monday – Friday. Emergency or urgent care will be provided as needed 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The unit consists of one procedure rooms for upper or lower GI procedures. Endoscopy procedures may be provided in other units, such as the OR. The same standards of care and practice will apply. Treatment activities may include patient assessment, pre procedural teaching, performance of GI procedures, implementation of pre and post operative physician orders, post procedure assessment and care, verification of discharge instructions, discharge teaching and documentation of care provided. Physicians perform the diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.
 
== Infection Control/Employee Health ==
Infection control oversees surveillance and monitoring of all the facilities of YKHC in order to identify and recognize hospital acquired infections and other adverse events in the facilities so that prevention and control activities can be identified and implemented to minimize the risk for these events.
 
== Surgical Services/ Operating Room ==
The Operating Room provides inpatient and outpatient elective, urgent and emergency surgical care to patients of all ages (under age 2 for short procedures) Pre and postoperative areas include Pre-OP room and a Phase 1 and Phase 2 Recovery Room. The surgical suite consists of 1 endoscopy room, 1 operating room with a back up operating room in OB for emergent situations. Elective surgeries are scheduled Monday – Friday from 0800 to 1630 depending on patient needs, physician utilization and staffing levels. Emergency or urgent surgeries are provided 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Surgical services are provided for:
*Limited General Surgery
*Limited Gynecological Surgery
*Limited Orthopedic Cases
*Dental Surgery
*Limited Urology
*Limited ENT procedures
*Obstetrical Surgery
 
== Prematernal Home ==
The Prematernal Home provides lodging for pregnant women who have come to Bethel to deliver. The Home offers educational classes, which include breasting feeding, nutrition, diabetes, Healthy Babies and childbirth. Classes offered to clients bring a positive impact to mothers in the Y-K Delta, especially to new mothers who are pregnant for the first time. These courses can reassure women before and after the birth of their child.
 
== Qavartarvik (Hostel) ==
Qavartarvik (YKHC's hostel) is a part of the Travel Management Center, under Support Services. Qavartarvik is available for use by Natives and Non-Natives who are from the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta Region villages and have come to Bethel for medical care. Lodging is additionally provided for non-Bethel residents when family members are inpatient at YKDRH and medical escorts who are actively involved in patient care.
 
== Sexual Abuse Response Unit (SARU) ==
;Scope of Service and Staffing: The SARU is a unit staffed and managed by the Emergency Services Department for the purpose of conducting forensic evidence-collection examinations on alleged victims and perpetrators of sexual assault or abuse. The examinations are conducted by specially trained registered nurses – Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANE’S) at the request of either the Bethel Police Department or the Alaska State
 
== Long Term Care Facility ==
A Long Term Care Facility is currently under construction, with a ground breaking ceremony that occurred in August 2011. This long awaited building will be an eighteen (18) bed facility that will serve the elder population in our region that meet the needed criteria. The anticipated opening of this facility will be October 1, 2013.
 
== Morgue ==
There are no funeral homes in Bethel. For those patients that die at YKDRH, their bodies are held in the hospital morgue until transported to the village or buried in Bethel. Law Enforcement (Bethel Police Department and State Troopers) also bring bodies to the hospital morgue, awaiting transport to the State Medical Examiner’s Office in Anchorage, for an autopsy. Priority use of the morgue belongs to the hospital. Law Enforcement is responsible for finding their own alternate storage space when the morgue is full. Families of the deceased visit the morgue for viewing and preparing the body for burial. The morgue can accommodate two bodies and is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. No autopsies are performed in Bethel. . The hospital Social Services is available to assist as needed 24 hours a day, 365 days a week.

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