Patient housing at ANMC now open
January 6, 2017After years of planning and months of construction, the patient housing facility at ANMC is now open for guests. This new building for patient lodging officially opened on Jan. 2 with more than 100 guests in rooms on the Alaska Native Health Campus.
The leadership of our health system’s Tribal governance, represented by ANTHC’s Board of Directors, recognized that providing safe lodging is an important piece of access to care for our people. Thanks to their vision, safe and convenient housing will no longer be a barrier to accessing specialty care for rural Alaska.
When our people travel to Anchorage for care at ANMC, they will have a home away from home in a patient housing facility attached directly to our hospital via sky bridge. Our guests benefit from the culturally-appropriate care and service they receive from ANTHC staff.
Providing suitable patient lodging for the people we serve from rural areas has been a longstanding challenge. Our innovative solution is the new patient housing at ANMC, which enhances the quality of care our people receive with a healing environment built especially for them when they must travel to Anchorage for needed health services.
The housing facility is designed to be a different kind of lodging for ANMC patients. The new facility provides a culturally-appropriate environment for our guests while they receive care and recover. This is especially important for expectant mothers with high-risk pregnancies traveling to Anchorage weeks prior to delivery, cancer patients requiring extended infusion and radiation therapies, surgery patients needing outpatient specialty medical care and recovery time, and children and Elders traveling with their escorts.
Employees and visitors to the Alaska Native Health Campus are also welcome to visit the first floor of the patient housing facility, which features a new cafeteria and dining area.