Regional health consortium operating 27 clinics and critical-access hospitals across Southeast Alaska
SEARHC is a Native-run nonprofit health system serving remote Southeast Alaska communities through primary, specialty, dental, behavioral health, and urgent care. The tech stack—anchored on Cerner EHR, HL7 interoperability, PACS for imaging, Workday for workforce management, and Salesforce for patient engagement—reflects a mature, compliance-heavy healthcare operation. Hiring is accelerating across clinical roles (342 open positions) while simultaneously executing internal projects around clinical standardization, quality dashboards, and data warehouse modernization, suggesting a parallel push to operationalize care delivery and extract actionable insights from fragmented systems.
Notable leadership hires: Dentist Residency Director, Medical Director, Residency Director, Quality Management Director
SEARHC is a nonprofit health consortium established in 1975 and one of the largest Native-run health organizations in the United States. The organization operates across 27 communities in Southeast Alaska, including two critical-access hospitals, and employs over 1,700 staff members. Service lines include primary care, emergency medicine, obstetrics, surgery, orthopedics, behavioral health, dental services, optometry, and specialty clinics. SEARHC contracts with the Indian Health Service and manages community health aide programs, addressing healthcare access in remote and underserved regions where patient travel is difficult. The organization is focused on bringing advanced medical care closer to home through traveling specialist clinics and telemedicine-enabled coordination.
SEARHC operates on Cerner EHR with HL7 interoperability standards, PACS for imaging, and RPM (remote patient monitoring). Workforce management runs on Workday, patient engagement on Salesforce, and document management on OnBase.
Current focus areas include patient flow optimization, clinic operational efficiency, regulatory compliance (federal and state), staff training and competency, and reducing care delays. Active projects center on clinical standardization, quality dashboards, data warehouse implementation, and workflow standardization.
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