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I have started a medical lapel pin business. My designs include Neonatal.
Please check out my website @  www.pinsbybecky.com 

Thank you, Becky Denna,
RNC

Providence Alaska   Medical Center:  The Maternity Center is in the process of transitioning the newborn in Labor and Delivery to keep families together and improve infant security.  New documentation is coming to decrease the amount of paperwork for nurses. 

Fairbanks Memorial Hospital 

The Women's Center was remodeled several years ago to Turn the L&D unit into LDRPs.  One of the 2 old delivery rooms was converted into an OR for Cesarean Sections and occasionally BTLs.  The L&D staff scrub and circulate for those surgeries.  FMH is a great place to work!  For our pregnant public, FMH offers several tours of the Maternal Child Facilities.  Contact the Women's Center for Details!

Submitted by:  Sharon Darnell, RNC.  

Central Peninsula General Hospital:  The Maternity Center is offering Childbirth Education Classes year round;   An in-service was recently done for the nursing staff to prepare for an emergency Cesarean prior to the team arrival;  Future plans in the  works are to orient RNs to scrub and circulate.  They welcomed a new pediatrician,  Carol Buchholz and a new CNM, Rachel Record.  Submitted by: Sandy Hartman, RN 

AWHONN Meeting A "Native" Success

Michelle Stevenson presented to the group, "Obstetrical Nursing in Rural Alaska".  She was a traveler stationed in Bethel and eventually stayed on full-time, until her recent move to Anchorage.  The birth rate in Bethel is approximately 30-50 births per month.  Each villager is given a 'Be In Bethel (BIB) date', usually around 36 weeks gestation.  They have a pre-delivery housing, where they wait to go into labor, and is funded by Medicaid.  Anyone who is under 36 weeks and in labor must be Medivac'd to Bethel, with a hefty price tag of $1,500.00 per hour!  No inductions are done.  Once the patient reached 41 weeks she is transferred to ANMC.  It takes four hours to reach the nearest major medical center in Anchorage.  She also brought a collection of native dolls and other artifacts to show.  Many thanks to her for sharing her experience in Bethel.