The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium will switch its food service contractor for the Wrangell Medical Center from NANA Management Services (NMS) to Aramark Corp.

The switch in providers, according to SEARHC marketing and communications director Lyndsey Schaefer, was a “business decision.”

SEARHC will officially transition from NMS to Aramark on Oct. 1. All 20 current NMS employees in Wrangell will be offered jobs with Aramark, Schaefer said last week.

NMS is an Alaska-based, Native-owned company that provides food and security services, as well as support to tribal entities a...