Award
Alaska Department of Health 224543
NOTICE OF COMMISSIONER’S DECISION APPROVAL OF A CERTIFICATE OF NEED THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Recipient
Providence Health & Services
Award Amount
$7,500,530.00
Ceiling
$7,500,530.00
Awarded
July 21, 2026
Identifier
224543
Approval of a Certificate of Need for Providence Health & Services to establish a 16-bed youth residential psychiatric treatment facility in Anchorage, Alaska, with a project cost not exceeding $7.5 million.
Description
Providence Health & Services is approved to establish the Providence Youth Behavioral Health Center (PYBHC), a sixteen (16) bed Level 5 Residential Psychiatric Treatment Center (RPTC) serving adolescents ages 12 through 17. The project will operate within space previously used as a Level 2 Crisis Recovery Center and will provide short-term, trauma-informed residential psychiatric treatment designed to expand Alaska's in-state behavioral health treatment capacity for youth.