Foundation Health Partners deactivated crisis standards of care and returned to contingency care effective Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021. Crisis standards of care went into effect on Oct. 1, 2021, due to a critical shortage of resources that included staffing shortages, bed capacity, inability to transfer patients, and monoclonal antibody treatments.

Within a health system there are three levels of care standards: conventional, contingency and crisis. Conventional is standard, everyday care.…

If you received a Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, the following groups are eligible for a booster shot 6 months or more after their initial series: 

• Age 65+, residents and staff in long-term care settings
• Age 18+ and have underlying medical conditions including asthma, diabetes, obesity
• Age 18+ and work in high-risk settings including healthcare workers, teachers, grocery store workers

For the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, booster shots are recommended for those who are 18…

FAIRBANKS, ALASKA – Foundation Health Partners (FHP) has activated Crisis Standards of Care, due to a critical shortage of resources that include, bed capacity, inability to transfer patients, and monoclonal antibody treatment. This change from Contingency Standards of Care to Crisis Standards of Care went into effect last this afternoon, Friday, Oct. 1, 2021.

Fairbanks Memorial Hospital (FMH) Chief of Staff Dr. Terry Conklin, Co-Chair of the Foundation Health Partners (FHP) Ethics Committee Dr.…

FAIRBANKS, ALASKA (Oct. 1, 2021) – Foundation Health Partners (FHP) reports that all the organization’s employees are compliant with the COVID-19 vaccine policy. Eleven employees made the decision to leave the organization rather than get vaccinated or submit a medical or religious exemption.

Earlier this fall, the FHP board of directors voted to require the COVID-19 vaccine or an exemption for all employees, students, volunteers, contract personnel and independent practitioners providing care…

WE ARE FACING CRISIS. What to know… 

We hit a new, unfortunate milestone today. As of 6am today, Sept. 9, FMH had 23 COVID positive inpatients and an unusually high patient census of 88, 26% of FMH’s inpatients today are COVID positive. Yesterday we had 21 COVID positive inpatients and the day prior we had 19. Our previous highs throughout the pandemic were 15, a number that had been reached three times.

McGown, Kiewit & Chandler meeting rooms are being reconfigured for patient care. As an…

What to know…

• In response to the critical situation we’re in, Emergency Management is standing up Incident Command again. (Incident Command is the leadership structure enacted in a time of crisis or emergency response.) Chief Shared Services Officer, Clint Brooks has asked Dr. Ramirez (Chief Medical Officer) to take the lead as Incident Commander. Incident Command will begin meeting next week. Meeting invites will be sent to the response team soon.

• AS of 6am today, FMH had 11…