Dr. Alena Anderson, Dr. Michael Lee Thorpe and Physician Assistant Sylvia McCormick are launching Glacier General Medicine in early April in Washington Plaza.
The three have worked together for years in the emergency room at Bassett Army Community Hospital on Fort Wainwright. McCormick said their ER experience showed the need for another general practice in the community — many people are using the emergency room as their first treatment option.
“There are a lot of people here who don’t have regular health care providers,” McCormick said.
McCormick said the practice launches with a mission of shared decision-making between the patient and health-care provider. Glacier General Medicine will focus on routine health care and preventive medicine, acute injury, and management of chronic illness and disease. Physicals for employment, athletics and workers’ compensation will also be provided.
McCormick said the practice will eventually offer a limited number of slots for Medicare patients, but won’t provide treatment for chronic pain issues. All age groups are welcome, she said.
Glacier General Medicine will be located in Washinton Plaza, at 3419 Airport Way, Suite B, next to Aurora Imaging. The practice will initially be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays.
The practice is taking appointments before its launch in early April. To book a visit, call 328-8843, or 374-8914 after the clinic officially opens.
Macs in Alaska open for business
When Brandon Becker got some bad news about his future at the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center, he decided it was time to make his own job instead of looking for a new one.
The computing center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks will lay off most of its employees this summer because of the loss of a key federal contract. That includes Becker, who offers technical support for about 100 Macintosh computers at ARSC.
The next phase in his life is Macs in Alaska, a business he recently opened with his wife, Kathleen. The business will offer training and technical support for Apple computer products, emphasizing both longtime Mac users and those who have just switched from a PC.
“Everybody else is looking for other jobs,” he said. “We decided it’s time to work for ourselves.”
Becker said he’ll operate a mobile business, making house calls for Mac problems as well as doing remote work over the telephone and network.
The business also will offer software and hardware selection and installation, upgrades, networking, backup planning, maintenance, troubleshooting and tutoring.
Becker, an Apple certified systems administrator, won’t be involved in selling computers or equipment.
Macs in Alaska may be reached at 978-2298, or by email at sales@macsinalaska.com.
Clean Buns offers diaper service
With two children under age 2, Alisa Butcher is used to spending lots of time washing diapers. Why not turn it into a business?
Butcher did just that, launching the Clean Buns diaper service out of her home in the Aurora Subdivision last month.
The service will pick up dirty cloth diapers twice a week from local homes and replace them with a fresh batch. Butcher also is providing a limited number of cloth diapers for people to use.
There isn’t an existing diaper cleaning service in Fairbanks, but Butcher said they’re common elsewhere. The appeal is obvious, since a newborn can fly through as many as 80 diapers a week.
Butcher said she’s also happy to support the environmentally friendly role that cloth diapers can play compared to disposables.
“I think a lot of people are conscious of being nicer to the earth and reusing things,” she said. “If people are interested in that, I’d like to be able to help them.”
For more information about the service, call 687-7537 or email cleanbuns@alaska.net.
Contact staff writer Jeff Richardson at 459-7518.
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