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Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.
Clips from Thea Agnew-BembenClear
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Thea Agnew-Bemben
“that's also the step towards us being able to bill for services. We have 13 clinicians just between fire and police, not to mention all the clinical folks at the health department. We're not billing for those services right now, and that's revenue that we could be capturing to help meet the need. And then also included in our proposal is 6 different pilot projects.”Anchorage Assembly: Housing and Homelessness Committee · Jun 17, 2026
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Thea Agnew-Bemben
“one of them is to be able to do short-term assisted living for people who otherwise would be— Uh-huh. In shelter as a way to bridge them into the benefits that are needed to get them into actual assisted living.”Anchorage Assembly: Housing and Homelessness Committee · Jun 17, 2026
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Thea Agnew-Bemben
“The proposal, it's a 3-year proposal. The first year is gonna be about $3.1 million, then a couple million each year after that. So it's a big lift for us to do this, but the goal is that that will get us over a hump that will allow us to not only coordinate care within Anchorage, but also statewide.”Anchorage Assembly: Housing and Homelessness Committee · Jun 17, 2026
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Thea Agnew-Bemben
“the thing we're doing very directly right now is we're applying for funding from the Rural Health Transformation Program, and the, what we are applying to do is to implement client records at all three of our departments—fire, police, and health—which we are in kind of different stages of right now, and then to be able to connect those to the health information exchange, which will allow us to actually have a way to communicate and share information with hospitals.”Anchorage Assembly: Housing and Homelessness Committee · Jun 17, 2026