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Providence Kodiak Island Medical Center, Kodiak; Providence Seward Medical and Care Center, Seward; St. Elias Specialty Hospital, Anchorage; Samuel Simmonds Memorial Hospital, Utqiaġvik; Sitka Community Hospital, Sitka; South Peninsula Hospital, Homer; Wrangell Medical Center, Wrangell; Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta Regional Hospital, Bethel
The Yupiit Piciryarait Cultural Center (YPCC), also known as Yupiit Piciryarait Cultural Center and Museum, formerly known as the Yup'ik Museum, Library, and Multipurpose Cultural Center (or Facility), is a non-profit cultural center of the Yup'ik (and sometimes Alaskan Athabaskan of the region) culture centrally located in Bethel, Alaska near the University of Alaska Fairbanks' Kuskokwim ...
Bethel – Within the heart of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta lays Bethel, a hub community for 56 surrounding villages, the gateway to the Yukon Delta, and home to the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation. Roughly 400 miles (600 km) west of Anchorage, Bethel is charged by a maritime climate that averages 65–70 °F during the summer months, and a ...
Kuskokwim is a loose transliteration of a Yupʼik word. It is a compound word meaning big slow moving thing. The Alaska Natives of Kuskokwim are Yupʼik Eskimo on the lower Kuskokwim, Deg Xitʼan Athabaskan on the middle Kuskokwim, Upper Kuskokwim Athabaskan on the upper Kuskokwim, and Koyukon Athabaskan on the North Fork, Lake Minchumina.
Bethel is home to the lone detention center in southwestern Alaska, the Yukon Kuskokwim Correction Center. [32] This prison has a capacity of 207 inmates, men and women, and a staff of 45. [33] Bethel is also the site of a unique 8.5-mile (13.7 km) prototype single-wire earth return electrical intertie to Napakiak, Alaska, constructed in 1981. [34]
The Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta is a river delta located where the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers empty into the Bering Sea on the west coast of the U.S. state of Alaska. At approximately 129,500 square kilometers (50,000 sq mi) in size, [ 1 ] it is one of the largest deltas in the world.
Napakiak, a Yup’ik village of about 350 residents in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, was flooded Sunday after heavy rains swelled the Kuskokwim River. Conditions beforehand were “pretty brutal ...
Palmer Medium and Minimum Correctional Centers, Palmer (capacity 492) Spring Creek Correctional Center, Seward(capacity 535) Maximum Security. Wildwood Correctional Center, near Kenai(capacity 255) Medium Security. Wildwood Pretrial Facility, near Kenai(capacity 113) All custody. Yukon-Kuskokwim Correctional Center, Bethel (capacity 207)