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| KAREN: So can you talk about what this pilot project that Walter Johnson mentioned, what that was and how that worked? DR. PARK: This -- KAREN: The 1964 pilot project for the health aides, before it was an official program. DR. PARK: Not quite sure what he meant. Let's see. Well, two of us sat down -- well, I may -- may remember. KAREN: There was a doctor in Kotzebue, some -- you, there may have been somebody -- DR. PARK: Yeah. In Bethel. KAREN: Yeah. DR. PARK: So. I had forgotten what years Walt was out in Bethel. KAREN: I can't remember. DR. PARK: Anyway, I had another physician voluntarily, and we worked together on developing a training aid for people to -- to train aides. We developed a -- oh, I don't know, a small -- a small manual that was ideas on what -- what to try to do for training health aides. But it was -- and we were encouraging, or the area office was encouraging, well, this type of thing, you know, medical aide training. And I'm trying to think what -- I don't know whether it had a name. If it did, I -- no, I think -- I think the original little manuals were just medical aide training. And... Hmm. KAREN: Do you remember what motivated you to start developing that training program? DR. PARK: Because of the villages we were trying to cover. And down the Aleutian Chain and the Iliamna area, McGrath area. Kodiak area. And it seemed like each year it kind of grew. KAREN: Yeah. It sounds like that's one of -- what the area that the Anchorage hospital covered. DR. PARK: Roughly that. KAREN: It's a big area. DR. PARK: Let's see. I knew -- we went into places like Tatitlek, near Cordova. So there was -- it was a big area. And -- and two of us helped develop an actual manual for anybody to use in any of the villages to help with the training. And then each service unit developed its own training program. KAREN: So the service units were at Bethel? DR. PARK: And Kanakanak. And, well, Barrow. Kotzebue. I'm trying to think of the different ones. Do you have a -- do you have a list of the old service units, or -- KAREN: No. DR. PARK: Okay. KAREN: Kanakanak is now the Dillingham? DR. PARK: Uh-hum (affirmative). Well, let's see. It was where there were any field hospitals located. KAREN: Bethel, Kanakanak, Barrow, Kotzebue, Nome? DR. PARK: No. Nome had a private physician and -- and that was part of the hospital. So we didn't send patients, or we didn't send physicians in there. KAREN: Tanana. DR. PARK: Tanana, yeah. KAREN: What about Southeast? Juneau? Sitka? DR. PARK: Well, yeah, the Mount Edgecumbe service unit. Initially, well, there was the -- the sizeable hospital there at Mount Edgecumbe. And that was considered -- what did they call it -- had an area office, and you had -- and they had two sub-area offices. One was Anchorage and one was Mount Edgecumbe. And so they took care of the -- the villages in that area. KAREN: Is Fort Yukon, did that have a hospital? DR. PARK: Well, they had a couple beds they could use if they had to. It was kind of -- they didn't have much. And then they would transfer into Fairbanks, and eventually into Tanana out of Fort Yukon. KAREN: Okay. | |
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