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Alaska Psychiatric Institute Meets CMS Certification Requirements; Major milestone secures ability to continue to receive federal funds.
Forensic Psychiatric Hospital Feasibility Study Phase II Final Report released July 31, 2019; This project was designed to identify challenges facing the forensic psychiatric system and to issue feasible recommendations for improvement to that system.
Alaska’s new health care price transparency law (AS 18.23.400) went into effect January 2019. However, the State of Alaska’s Department of Health and Social Services will allow health care providers and facilities more time to comply with the law as regulations are still being developed. The law requires health care providers and facilities to post the prices of their most common procedures.
DHSS Southcentral earthquake page for information to assist Alaskans as recovery efforts continue from the magnitude 7.0 earthquake reported between Palmer and Anchorage at 8:29 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 30, 2018, and the thousands of aftershocks.
Alaska's Smokefree Workplace Law went into effect October 1, 2018. Go to smokefree.alaska.gov for more information.
Alaska Tribal Child Welfare Compact
Self-care after a major-traumatic event
Medicaid in Alaska Dashboard

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