The Alaska Senate finalized its capital budget last week, and a project to build a new hospital in Petersburg didn’t make it onto the list. Now, hospital administration is scrambling for new funding avenues as the community’s old facility continues to decay.
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Alaska Sen. Bert Stedman spoke with KFSK’s Shelby Herbert about what got left out of the Senate’s lean financial blueprint for this year. He said Alaska burned through its savings over the last few years, but the state is approaching a more stable position.
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Petersburg Medical Center is closing in on the details of exactly what its new hospital will look like. The latest report shows the main building covering about 60,000 square feet. Hospital board members will review details on the project at a meeting this evening.
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Petersburg’s Borough is trading a construction company surplus rock for permission to move a road at a local quarry. The deal could give the Borough better access to rock it owns and brings costs down for the new hospital project.
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Petersburg Medical Center symbolically broke ground at the construction site of its new hospital facility on December 8th. As KFSK’s Shelby Herbert reports, even some of the project’s critics came out to witness the ceremony.
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Petersburg’s Hospital Board will meet tonight at 5:30 p.m. to vote on a letter of support for the construction of the new hospital facility. The letter highlights the importance of the healthcare services Petersburg Medical Center provides to people in the region, as well as its role as an economic engine in Petersburg. It also outlines the need for replacing the old facility, which is rapidly falling out of code.
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Petersburg’s Borough Assembly has a lengthy agenda ahead of its meeting today, which starts at 12:00 p.m. in the Assembly Chambers. The assembly will vote on several new items of business, including a request from Rock-N-Road Construction Inc. to allow them to modify the airport rock quarry and a nearby access road in exchange for up to 60,000 cubic yards of rock.
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Petersburg’s Hospital Board plans to discuss its childcare programming at its monthly meeting this evening. The pilot programming is wrapping up its first year, and the board will hear a status report on the project before they decide whether it’ll continue.
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