Saturday, May 3, 2025
5/3/2025
Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending - Construction - Planning efforts for the Crisis Stabilization Center have been underway since 2018, when Providence Health & Services Washington dba Providence Alaska Medical Center, Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority, and Southcentral Foundation combined efforts to lead the Anchorage Crisis Continuum workgroup. With the approval of the behavioral health portion of the 1115 Medicaid waiver in 2019 and the finalization of regulations in 2020, Providence began planning for implementation in earnest. Due to its proximity to Alaska Psychiatric Institute and Providence behavioral health services, the first floor of the Providence Region Building has been selected for renovation. Providence Alaska’s Crisis Stabilization Center (the Center) will include a Behavioral Health Urgent Care, 23-hour Crisis Stabilization and Short-term Crisis Residential programs. The Behavioral Health Urgent Care walk-in clinic will be designed to support adolescents ages 12 and older as well as adults experiencing a behavioral health crisis who are voluntarily seeking care and require brief support/intervention. The 23-hour Crisis Stabilization Services will offer no-wrong-door access to behavioral health care for adults and accept all walk-ins as well as ambulance, fire and police drop offs. The facility will use recliners, instead of beds, to maximize flexibility in capacity and client flow and create an environment conducive to rapid engagement and stabilization. The Short-term Crisis Residential program will provide services to adults who are unable to stabilize at 23-hour Crisis Stabilization, including 24/7/365 staffing with a multidisciplinary team capable of meeting the needs of individuals experiencing all levels of crisis. The funding provided by HRSA-23-117 in combination with local, state, foundations, corporate and community donations will make this project become a reality in diverting patients from the emergency departments into more appropriate services.
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