Editing Kotzebue, Alaska (section)

===Health care===
Kotzebue is home to the [[Maniilaq Association]], a tribally-operated health and social services organization named after [[Maniilaq]] and part of the [[Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium]]. Maniilaq Health Center is the primary health care facility for the residents of the Northwest Arctic Borough. The facility houses an emergency room with local and medevac support for accident/trauma victims, as well as an ambulatory care clinic, dental and eye care clinics, a pharmacy, a specialty clinic, and an inpatient wing with 17 beds for recovering patients.

Health care providers at Maniilaq Health Center provide telemedicine support to Community Health Aides (CHAPs) in the outlying villages of the [[Northwest Arctic Borough]]. The CHAPs, who work in village-based clinics, are trained in basic health assessment and can treat common illnesses. For more complicated cases, the CHAPs communicate with Maniilaq Health Center medical staff via phone, video-conference, and digital images.