Private company hired to run Alaska Psychiatric Institute has a mixed record
Wellpath Recovery Solutions has a new name, but the company’s previous iteration has a long and well-documented history.
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State paying private consultants $1 million a month to pull API from brink of regulatory disaster
Alaska’s only psychiatric hospital is under four separate “grievous letters of correction” from four different agencies.
Federal investigators found more ‘substantial deficiencies’ at API than at any other US hospital last year
As recently as Monday, investigators were back at the Alaska Psychiatric Institute and discovered another “immediate jeopardy” situation.
API director, other top state health officials resign in wake of critical report
API's chief executive, Ron Hale, deputy health commissioner Karen Forrest and the director of the state division of behavioral health, Randall Burns, are all no longer working at the state, a spokeswoman for the state health department said Friday.
Report: Alaska’s state-run psychiatric hospital is unsafe for employees
The report, by Anchorage attorney Bill Evans, is the latest probing of problems at the Alaska Psychiatric Institute, which has faced staffing shortages for years.