Central Peninsula Hospital

This week is National Suicide Prevention Week, an annual campaign geared at educating and engaging both health professionals and the public about suicide prevention. In 2021, over 48,000 Americans died by suicide.

Several hospital doctors and primary care physicians have recently left the central peninsula. Why are they leaving, and what could their absence mean for the availability of care in the area?

Central Peninsula Hospital is buying the independently owned Surgery Center of Kenai for nearly $10 million. Hospital CEO Shaun Keef said the purchase of the two-operating room facility will, in turn, expand the hospital’s capacity and allow it to address a backlog of surgeries.

According to the CDC, there have been more than 250 new reported cases in the Kenai Peninsula Borough over the last week — a 22% increase over the last seven days.

Shaun Keef becomes Central Peninsula Hospital's new CEO July 1.

Central Peninsula Hospital is loosening its restrictions on visitors as COVID-19 counts decline on the central peninsula.

A COVID-19 vaccine requirement for employees of Central Peninsula Hospital is moving forward again, following a Thursday decision from the U.S. Supreme…

A 68-year-old man incarcerated at Wildwood Correctional Center died last week — the fifth COVID-19-related death at Central Peninsula Hospital this…

Over half of all beds at Central Peninsula Hospital are now occupied by COVID-19 patients and the hospital is almost a third overcapacity, said hospital…

Most mornings, a line of cars snakes from the front of Capstone Clinic in Kenai, past McDonalds, spilling out onto the residential Walker Lane.Clinics…