Ingrid Ulrey said she hopes the federal health department can help Alaska with some of its health-related challenges including a severe shortage of health care workers.
June 14, 2022
From left to right: Alexandra Kim McKay, Rasmuson Foundation Vice President Programs; Ingrid Ulrey, HHS Region 10 Director; David Dickinson, HHS Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Region 10 Administrator; Elizabeth Ripley, Mat-Su Health Foundation President and CEO. The regional director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently visited Alaska to tour health care facilities and meet with state, local and tribal health officials.
It was Ingrid Ulrey’s first visit to the state as the department’s Region 10 director, and she said she heard a lot about Alaska’s unique, health-related challenges, which she hopes the federal health department — and funding through some of its grant programs — can help with. Ulrey says those challenges include a mental health crisis, disparities in health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic and a severe health care worker shortage.: The caring professions, in health care and childcare, and particularly within behavioral health, are really challenged now to recruit and attract the workforce we need to take care of the population. It’s about getting people in through a pipeline, and it’s about keeping them and ensuring they don’t get burned out.
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