Without the state asking the hard questions, it is not possible to improve patient outcomes.
Alaska Psychiatric Institute is located on Piper Street in Anchorage. Photographed December 12, 2019.
The Department of Family and Community Services runs the Alaska Psychiatric Institute. The commissioner, Kim Koval, publicly announced last August that API has made tremendous progress in improving mental health services. From my vantage point, the state reached that conclusion without including the views of patients or listening to their complaints.
There are patients at API with a developmental or intellectual disability along with a mental illness, and there are patients at API with just behavioral issues and not a mental illness. One of the problems patients have always had: The trained patient advocate required by state law AS 47.30.847 works for the hospital. And patients are informed that any staff member can help with a grievance, and that could include a staff member against whom the patient has a complaint.
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