...best interest? To an extent, the Alaska Supreme Court answered that question in "Myers vs state-run Alaska Psychiatric Institute." (2006) The danger to Alaska psychiatric patients comes about when a patient wants to file a legitimate complaint...
...million. The Department of Health and Social Services plans to turn the facility into a new home for the Alaska Psychiatric Institute within the next two years. Health and Social Services commissioner Karen Perdue said the purchase of an existing...
...They had been run by a third Outside company. Magellan was planning to sell the hospital building to the Alaska Psychiatric Institute. But API now plans to build a new center near the current site by the University of Alaska Anchorage. ''We've...
...Police were also contacted after a letter containing a packet of yellow and white powder was opened at the Alaska Psychiatric Institute on Monday. Employees sealed it and contacted authorities without reading the letter, said Randall Burns, chief...
With great fanfare a new acute care state-run 74 bed psychiatric hospital opened its doors in 2005 - Alaska Psychiatric Institute. In less than 5 years, state-run API has up to 80 patients. There is a waiting list for psychiatric patients...
...generous, loving family,'' Egan said. Raymond Wood has suffered from mental illness. He was committed to Alaska Psychiatric Institute after an incident in 1985 in which he broke into a home, forced motorists off an Anchorage road and got involved...
...around 1:15 a.m. when Palmer troopers attempted to serve a commitment order on Maness to take him to Alaska Psychiatric Institute. Maness was in a motor home outside his home when troopers arrived. As troopers approached Maness' residence...
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