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The agreement signed Friday by representatives of Fort Wainwright and UAF’s Community and Technical College will directly benefit the spouses of soldiers assigned to the Interior’s two Army installations who want to earn a degree in Early Childhood Education.
Patty Meritt, an Early Childhood Education professor and program adviser with UAF s Community and Technical College, explains the benefits of the agreement while Garrison Commander Col. Christopher Ruga lists those benefits.
Credit Brian Schlumbohm/Fort Wainwright Public Affairs Office
“It’s part of our continuing effort for us to improve the community education and employment opportunities for our employees,” said Garrison Commander Col. Christopher Ruga, “as well as continue improve the quality of life for the soldiers, families and civilians here at U.S. Army Garrison, and throughout the Fairbanks North Star Borough area.”
KETCHIKAN (KDN) â The Ketchikan Emergency Operations Center recorded nine new positive COVID-19 test results during the three-day period from Saturday through Monday, and Ketchikan High School closed to in-person learning on Tuesday due to two positive cases at the school.
Seven of the cases were charted on Monday, and two were counted on Saturday, according to the EOC dashboard on Monday evening.
All but one of the seven cases recorded on Monday involved symptomatic individuals.
Three of the Monday cases were still under investigation as to source, two were related to recent travel, one was due to close contact with a known positive case and one was found to be community spread, the dashboard showed.
Last week, Karen Melin was selected to be interim chief school administrator for the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District in a unanimous vote of the Board of Education. The
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The hospital is reporting record high admissions of coronavirus disease – even more than the surge last November. About 18% of the admissions at Fairbanks Memorial Hospital have COVID-19.
Dr. Barbara Creighton, who has been attending many of them, says the surge is preventable.
“There is the disconnect. You know, we have businesses opening, school buses flying, restaurants going, and we have visitors happening, and yet we have our highest case rates. And so, we are like does anybody see this? This place is on fire with COVID.”
Dr. Barbara Creighton reports to the Greater Fairbanks Community Hospital Foundation Board about patients she is tending on the COVID floor.
With local virus transmissions rising exponentially, Fairbanks Memorial Hospital is reporting record-high admissions of Covid patients who tend to be younger and sometimes angrier than at the beginning of the pandemic, health officials said Friday.
Foundation Health Partners leaders provided a Covid-19 update, pointing out the record-high admission rate at Fairbanks Memorial Hospital and describing changes in patient demographics.
Averaging at 10 and 11 new Covid patients per day this past week, the hospital had 12 Covid-19 patients on Friday and two more who were suspected to have the virus, said FHP Chief Medical Officer Dr. Angelique Ramirez.
âWe are really struggling right now; we have a record-high number of patients in the hospital,â Shelley Ebenal, FHP CEO and quality medical director, said.