Letters from patients. The compassionate care provided by PeaceHealth in southeast Alaska is perhaps best expressed in unsolicited letters from patients such as these:

"With my medical history, I have been in many hospitals. From the moment I arrived in your emergency room, I was met with the best staff I have ever encountered in any hospital, anyplace, including some of the so-called ‘big medical centers.’" (from North Carolina)

"All the nurses were pleasant, service-oriented, and most importantly, very humane in their approach…" (from the Netherlands)

"We are both elderly, but I have spent the greater part of my professional life as an R.N., from intensive care to teaching…I personally have never experienced better care or seen such superior skills…" (from Arizona)