Southcentral Foundation - Nuka System of Care

Overview

South Central Foundation Webinar – Nuka System of Care

Date/Time

• Thursday 30 November 2023, 9:00am-10:30 a.m. (Australian Eastern Standard Time

Intended audience

• Organisations and policymakers interested in First Nations health policies.

Background

• South Central Foundation’s (SCF) Nuka System of Care provides medical, dental, behavioural, and traditional health care support services to more than 65,000 Alaska Native Indian People.
• In the Nuka System, strong relationships between primary care teams and patients (known as customer-owners) have helped manage chronic diseases, control health care costs, and improve the overall wellness of the people they serve. Recognising that individuals are ultimately in control of their own lifestyle choices and health care decisions, Nuka focuses on understanding each customer-owner’s unique story, values and influences in an effort to engage them in their care, and support long-term behavioural change
• The National Rural Health Commissioner, Adj. Prof. Ruth Stewart has commissioned South Central Foundation and hosted a webinar to showcase the Nuka Health concept and how it positively affects health outcomes.

Key Themes

• The positive impacts of providing culturally safe, multidisciplinary-based care
• A relationship-based, customer-owned approach to transforming health care, improving outcomes and reducing costs. The Nuka System of Care is unique and receives increasing national and international recognition for its effectiveness.
• The impact a culturally safe multidisciplinary team can have, particularly when SCF’s mission and goals are visible in every activity.
• The introduction to a high-functioning multidisciplinary team complements the publication from our Office, the Ngayubah Gadan Consensus Statement on rural and remote multidisciplinary health teams.

Speakers

• Dr. Doug Eby – Executive Vice President of Specialty Services
• Melissa Merrick - Executive Vice President of Primary Care
• Chelsea Ryan – Nurse Director – Primary Care Administration

We invite your feedback for the Southcentral webinar. Feedback is open from Friday 8 December 2023 and closes at 23:59 (AEDT) on Monday 15 January 2024.

The survey will take approximately 10 minutes to complete

Why your views matter

Your views matter as they can help us to develop improved useability and content for the future. Your feedback is a valuable contribution in this process

What happens next

Once all feedback is obtained, The Office of the National Rural Health Commissioner will evaluate the success of the Webinars.

Intel will help formulate improvements of

• useability of functions associsted with the Webinar
• influence future Webinar content 
• provide consideration of continued Webinars from the office forthcoming.