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Providence Seward Medical and Care Center provides quality health care to residents and visitors with an extensive array of local services. Our team of physicians, nurses, and support staff deliver compassionate, quality care to all patients. We have the experience and facilities necessary to diagnose and treat a wide range of medical conditions.
Providence Seward Medical and Care Center, which includes the medical center and Wesley Care Center, works very closely with the community to not only ensure the health of its citizens, but also to inspire and encourage health care as a career in the city’s youth.
In light of that work, the staff in Seward provides year-round tours for high school, junior high school and elementary students, and works in local schools to promote good health and a good education.
One of the center’s most rewarding community partnerships is with the Seward Police Department where they work together to provide positive rewards to children for wearing bicycle helmets. Called Hooray for Helmets, this program gets bicycle patrol policemen “catching kids” doing something right by wearing helmets while riding bikes or skateboards. When they are “caught” the police give the kids gift certificates for ice cream, pizza and free videos as a reward for being safe.
As with many small communities in Alaska, one of Seward’s biggest issues is sustaining the health care system financially. With the advent of collocation with the hospital and long-term care center, Providence and the City of Seward continue to work toward a sustainable system and their newest project includes the construction of a new long-term care center to replace Wesley. This new facility, currently in the design phase, will be based on the “Greenhouse” model, which provides a more homelike atmosphere for residents.
Both Providence and the Seward City Council are very excited to be building the state’s first Greenhouse nursing home, which in essence will provide a “cutting edge” facility for our state’s senior citizens.
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