Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium is yet again expanding its services in Juneau.

This time, a spokesperson says the Alaska Native-run health care organization is renovating the former Planned Parenthood building in Lemon Creek into a new specialty care clinic.

The future clinic will offer cardiology, dermatology and rheumatology services. Construction is underway and the organization’s goal is to open the facility later this fall.

The building formerly housed Juneau’s Planned Parenthood, which permanently closed last November. Planned Parenthood said it closed the building because it needed expensive repairs and the Trump administration has threatened the organization’s funding.

Its closure means Juneau and the surrounding Southeast Alaska communities have less access t

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