ANTHC is co-manager, with the Southcentral Foundation, of the Alaska Native Medical Center (ANMC), a 150-bed facility in Anchorage with a staff including more than 250 physicians and 700 nurses.
It has received Magnet Status for nursing excellence, a designation achieved by only about 7 percent of all hospitals nationwide.
ANTHC pays market rate compensation to all employees to retain and attract the best qualified Alaska Native professionals and top quality providers and engineers[citation needed].
[4] The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium Land Transfer Act (H.R.
623; 113th Congress) is a bill that would transfer some land in Alaska from the federal government to the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium to be used to build a patient housing facility so that the organization can treat people who travel there from distant rural areas.