The latest network profiles from The Northwest Regional Telehealth Resource Center http://nrtrc.org/ In Alaska, the healthcare workers practicing in hospitals, clinics, and community health centers are essential to the delivery of acute and primary care services to small, rural, and remote communities. Although the majority of Alaska’s population is located outside the greater Anchorage area, the majority of healthcare providers in Alaska (e.g., physicians, PAs, RNs, physical therapists) are located in its three largest cities. As a result, rural clinicians practice in a generalist’s environment, but where they often need to have specialty knowledge and expertise. This dichotomy is further complicated when you consider the limited opportunities for continuing education and access to specialty consultations available because of travel costs, geographical and weather restrictions, and a general lack of or inability to arrange for clinical coverage during absences. (Posted: January 12, 2009) http://nrtrc.org/About_us/profile_archives/0006.html Crossroad Medical Center itself was more like coming home. The smiles are still here and I even saw one of the same patients from a year ago-what are the odds? (Posted: January 12, 2009) http://nrtrc.org/About_us/profile_archives/0007.html In the midst of chemotherapy last fall, Pat Ballek didn't feel like driving 260 miles roundtrip for checkups at her doctor's office. So she didn't. Instead, the Sheridan, Wyo., woman met with Billings' Dr. Patrick Cobb over a video link. Ballek dialed in from Cobb's Sheridan clinic, where she was receiving chemotherapy, while Cobb logged on from the Billings office of Hematology-Oncology Centers of the Northern Rockies. (Posted: June 01, 2008) http://nrtrc.org/About_us/profile_archives/0005.html After nine months of planning, Idaho State University Workforce Training, in cooperation with The Hospital Cooperative, is offering a video-based Certificated Nursing Assistants (CNA) course. (Posted: April 30, 2008) http://nrtrc.org/About_us/profile_archives/0004.html#2 D r. William Hazle, psychiatrist and director of the Behavioral Health Unit at Portneuf Medical Center, has provided psychiatric care to patients in Soda Springs, Malad City, and Afton, Wyoming from his Portneuf Medical Center office since July, 2007. (Posted: April 30, 2008) http://nrtrc.org/About_us/profile_archives/0004.html#1 A multidisciplinary team of physicians including- emergency physicians, neurologists, neurosurgeons, radiologists, physiatrists works together to provide a wide range of diagnostic and therapeutic options. The Stroke Center therapies include medical treatments, Telestroke consultations, advanced neurosurgical techniques, and interventional neuroradiology procedures. (Posted: March 03, 2008) http://nrtrc.org/About_us/profile_archives/0003.html Eastern Aleutian Tribes, Inc. (EATs) is a tribally operated non-profit health corporation that provides the sole source of comprehensive primary services in the Aleutians East Borough (AEB). EATs has matured into one of the most dynamic and progressive Native health organizations in Alaska. (Posted: September 04, 2007) http://nrtrc.org/About_us/profile_archives/0002.html The Idaho State University Institute of Rural Health has created a virtual environment to train emergency-preparedness professionals. This is the only type of training like this anywhere. (Posted: July 18, 2007) http://nrtrc.org/About_us/profile_archives/index.html