When you join BBAHC, you'll find a community of capable healthcare professionals dedicated to providing quality care to the Native community of the Bristol Bay region. While working and living in Southwest Alaska, you'll also enjoy rugged, pristine landscapes matched by few places on Earth.
Our providers provide excellent service with pride and honesty while striving for consistency. We are open and honest in our interactions, practicing effective communication skills, and being sensitive with our patients. We work as an efficient, productive and accepting team, sharing responsibilities and recognizing that our work affects other team members. We deliver care to our clients in a humanistic and heart-felt way, recognizing that each client is unique.
BBAHC offers what few other hospitals and healthcare organizations can - a modern facility and a must-see-to-believe rural environment. We believe you'll find our pay and benefits to be competitive and attractive as well.
Dillingham is home to 2,347 residents, who live on the edge of the largest state park in the country, Wood-Tikchik State Park, and enjoy some of the best sportfishing in the entire state – which is saying something! All five species of Pacific salmon along with freshwater rainbow trout, arctic char, and Dolly Varden are abundant in the Wood and Tikchik systems of lakes and rivers.
Strategically situated at the head of Nushagak Bay and along the mouth of the Wood and Nushagak rivers, Dillingham has become the economic and transportation hub of western Bristol Bay. Thanks to the rich fisheries of Bristol Bay, Dillingham is the fastest growing community in the region, supporting 230 commercial fishing licenses and four fish processing plants whose workers double the city’s population in the summer.
Dillingham residents enjoy a year-round scenic paradise for boating, canoeing, rafting, tubing, hiking, biking, fishing, snowmobiling, skiing, mushing, and hunting. There are many lakes and rivers to explore and mountains to climb. Dillingham offers almost everything you’ll need including two grocery stores, two hardware stores, and a variety of small businesses provide services for the fisherman and visitor alike. An added bonus and one the community is most proud of is its small town friendly, helpful nature.