Norton Sound Health Corporation

Nshc's regional health services provide a wide variety of health care, promotion, screening, and prevention programs to nome and 15 bering sea villages. Such programs include but are not limited to the provision of health aides (certified and in-training) at each village health clinic, a tribal healer program, infant learning programs, environmental health program, healthy starts and other services geared specifically to women, infants and children. Key statistics for fy24 include: patient visits in village clinics 27,574 wic client encounters environmental health tech assistance animal bites/rabie investigation water quality

Nshc's behavioral health services division provides outpatient individual, couple, family and group mental health therapy, interactive and observational play therapy as well as individual, couple, family and group substance abuse counseling, sexual assault response services and alcohol and drug information school. It also provides psychological and neuropsychological testing, psychiatric services including medication assessment and evaluation, case management and referral services and 24/7 crisis intervention in the emergency room and inpatient units. Behavioral health services are delivered in the villages through the village based counselors (vbc's). Bhs is the only rural location in the state accredited by the american psychological association with a pr-doctoral internship program. Key statistics for fy24 include: behavioral health visits - 4,952 telehealth primary care - 1,056

State & federal grants and contracts with patient revenue: ilp and dvpi have revenue.