ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – Anchorage hospitals reach patient bed capacity due to a lack of short-term care options. People well enough to leave the hospital but not well enough to care for themselves at home fill beds needed by patients with more serious care needs.
Construction on the Alaska Native Medical Center will help ease some of that pressure.
The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium’s new skilled nursing facility will open in March. Providing short-term care for up to 80 patients still needing care, but not to the level of occupying a hospital bed. The walls are going up inside the new building, and thoughts are turning to artwork to help create a healing environment…