(Anchorage) – Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy Wednesday announced that hundreds of medical personnel are coming to Alaska to assist the State’s health care facilities. Nearly 300 registered nurses and more than 100 certified nursing assistants or patient care technicians are among the health care workers expected to arrive soon in Alaska under an $87 million […]
2021 ANCHORAGE – The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) is notifying the public of a security breach of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Alaska Personal Information Protection Act (APIPA). This breach was caused by a highly sophisticated cyberattack on DHSS that was first detected in May 2021. […]
(Juneau, AK) – The Alaska Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development (DCCED), Division of Corporations, Business, and Professional Licensing (CBPL), is warning professional licensees and the public about criminals posing as licensing board investigators or other law enforcement personnel as part of a scheme to defraud professional licensees. The licensees targeted in this scheme are those […]
People with obesity are more likely to have serious outcomes from COVID-19 than people without obesity About 1 out of 3 Alaska adults has obesity, according to new numbers released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the 2020 Adult Obesity Prevalence Maps for U.S. states and territories. The CDC reported that 31.9% […]