Healy Closes Its Only Health Clinic After 20 Years Of Service

Fairbanks Is 110 Miles From Healy 

Welcome to Healy sign at the entrance to the Usibelli Coal Mine side road
(Photo, Copper River Country Journal)

Healy's Interior Community Health Center has closed down. Healy is a thriving tourism and coal-mining community just north of Denali National Park. 

It's not that people in Healy don't want a clinic. They do. In fact, they want more than the health center can offer, according to a September 24th Alaska Public Media story, which reports "they want year-round 24/7 emergency care, home visitation, imaging and pharmacy services."

The clinic says it can't provide those services. The clinic is a satellite office of a Fairbanks clinic with the same name. The Healy facility ran successfully for more than two decades.