Since there are no doctors or hospitals in the villages, and some do not even have health aides or nurse practitioners, if you are pregnant, you are shipped off to Anchorage or Bethel at 36 weeks. You stay there until the baby is born, away from your home and family. If you qualify for Medicaid, they have a brand new facility you can stay in for those weeks. If not, you have to pay for hotel rooms or find someone to stay with. Alaska natives get free health care anyways and most qualify for Medicaid or know people in town, so they have places to stay while they have babies.
This is NOT about me!!! Just something I asked about.
Since there are no doctors or hospitals in the villages, and some do not even have health aides or nurse practitioners, if you are pregnant, you are shipped off to Anchorage or Bethel at 36 weeks. You stay there until the baby is born, away from your home and family. If you qualify for Medicaid, they have a brand new facility you can stay in for those weeks. If not, you have to pay for hotel rooms or find someone to stay with. Alaska natives get free health care anyways and most qualify for Medicaid or know people in town, so they have places to stay while they have babies.
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