By Rick Smeriglio for SCN — Males and females who look after Seward’s healthcare requirements met last Wednesday to deal 2 queries: “What do you see as the greatest health issues impacting the persons you serve?” and “What aspects of the healthcare system make it problematic for you to do your job?” The contributors gathered to offer input to a subcommittee of the Kenai Peninsula Borough Healthcare Task Force. Insurance and high costs surfaced as huge issues from a variety of viewpoints. Various contributors also identified sufferer transport, substance abuse, and recruitment and retention of medical personnel as problems in Seward.
Dr. Katy Sheridan, a native of Kasilof, has a solo medical practice and chairs the task force subcommittee. Overall, the task force has the objective of evaluating KPB hospital service places with a view to suggesting improvements to benefit all borough residents. As well, the task force will accumulate and observe healthcare cost information. Sheridan states her mission more succinctly.
Sheridan stated, “We are attempting to see if borough wide, we can hold down healthcare costs while keeping the level of care the similar or better. To do that, the Mayor is searching at expanded healthcare powers.
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