Tag Archives: The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services

Backpack. (Photo by Michael McCullough / Flickr) Kayla Desroches/KMXT A recent survey of high school students in the Kodiak Archipelago looked at risk behaviors in the student body. That includes things like drugs, suicide rate, and violence. This year, almost 500 of roughly 600 high school students in the Kodiak High School and island community schools answered the Youth Risk …

(Left to right) Nurse Steve, Nurse Lydia, and patient / actor Patricia Roberts during a simulated examination. Kayla Desroches/KMXT Kayla Desroches/KMXT Earlier in May, Providence Kodiak Island Medical Center conducted an ebola simulation where the hospital received and treated a patient with the disease. The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services had chosen Kodiak as the site for a …