Company Profile
Southcentral Foundation
Company Overview
Southcentral Foundation is an Alaska Native-owned, nonprofit health care organization that provides a variety of services to nearly 70,000 Alaska Native and American Indian people.
Our award-winning, integrated model of care provides easy-access to specialists. Physicians can refer customer-owners to health educators, OBGYNs, pediatrics, pharmacists, psychiatrists, behaviorists, and other medical specialties located on the Alaska Native Health Campus.
Our clinical team environment is one of the most robust in the country. Our data driven, non-RVU approach means that compensation is salary-based—encouraging a practice focused on wellness, not quantity. SCF fosters an environment that focuses on quality, relationship-based care. Each team has a dedicated RN case manager, certified medical assistant, case management support, and access to an electronic health records specialist who helps train, coach, and improve the use of electronic health records for physicians and teams. Additional clinical-setting benefits include support staff to handle paperwork and billing, employer-sponsored federal tort malpractice insurance coverage, and the ability to practice medicine without insurance constraints to patients. SCF places in the 75th to 90th percentile in most HEDIS measures.
Our integrated and accessible approach to care makes your job easier. Our clinics coordinate patient care with integrated care teams that include behavioral health consultants, pharmacists, certified nurse midwives, lactation consultants, community resource specialists, psychiatrists, dieticians, and a PM&R pain consultant. In addition to access to a comprehensive formulary with an on-site pharmacy, SCF employees have a high level of access and coordination of care with specialty providers from across our shared medical campus.
Company History
Southcentral Foundation is an Alaska Native-owned, nonprofit health care organization serving nearly 65,000 Alaska Native and American Indian people living in Anchorage, Matanuska-Susitna Valley and over 60 rural villages in the Anchorage Service Unit.
Incorporated in 1982 under the tribal authority of Cook Inlet Region, Inc., Southcentral Foundation is the largest of the CIRI nonprofits, employing more than 2,500 people in more than 80 programs.
Southcentral Foundation’s vision is a Native Community that enjoys physical, mental, emotional and spiritual wellness; its mission is to work together with the Native Community to achieve wellness through health and related services. The organization has developed and implemented comprehensive health-related services to meet the changing needs of the Native Community, enhance culture and empower individuals and families to take charge of their lives.
Southcentral Foundation’s first compact agreement, per Public Law 92-638 Bureau of Indian Affairs Alaska Area Native Health Service, began in 1984. The compact agreement provided dentistry, optometry, community health representatives and injury control services. A funding request to provide substance abuse treatment service was added in 1987.
Gradually, Southcentral Foundation increased its compact agreement capacity within the Anchorage Service Unit so that by late 1994 it was administering nearly half the primary care services for Alaska Native people.
The Alaska Native Medical Center opened its doors in May 1997. Earlier that year, Congress had passed Public Law 105-83, which included a section that enabled Alaska Native people to obtain ownership and management of all Alaska Native health care services.
In 1998, Southcentral Foundation completed the assumption of ownership and management of primary care and other programs located in the Anchorage Native Primary Care Center. Since the beginning of the assumption of services, Southcentral Foundation instituted significant philosophical changes and other changes in the design and administration of these programs. Southcentral Foundation instituted a total system-wide transformation of care, increasing the quality and adaptability of programs —and more importantly—the accountability of providers and customers alike. Alaska Native people are in charge of designing and delivering health care.
Benefits
Our benefits are designed around your health and wellness. We offer employees one hour per week of paid wellness leave, on-site fitness and daycare facilities, and competitive salary packages. SCF employees enjoy 13 paid holidays and an enhanced personal leave program. We also generously contribute to a wide variety of affordable insurance plans that cover medical, dental, vision, hearing, prescription drug, disability, life, and accidental death and dismemberment. Additional health and wellness benefits include an employer-matched 401(k)