The hospital hopes to build a five-room, $17.4 million facility, smaller than one state officials rejected last year, at a location along the Old Seward Highway.
and the lack of a connected hospital to treat patients with severe cardiac issues or needing surgery or intensive care.
Hospital leaders say the project is intended to add emergency care in South Anchorage, where there are no major hospitals, but also relieve the pressure on the city’s three hospitals overall. It can be “challenging” seeing that many patients in the hospital’s 16-bed emergency department, he said.Grinold said the facility could also relieve pressure on other hospitals by reducing the need to temporarily shift to “divert” status when various factors can halt ambulance transports until capacity improves.
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