[3] The Joint Commission recognized the institute in 2012 for being in the top third of its national performance rankings for psychiatric hospitals.

[5] It was commissioned in 1956 as part of the Alaska Mental Health Enabling Act which allotted 6.5 million dollars for its construction.

[7] In 1982, while on limited release from the institute, Charles L. Meach, who had previously beaten a man to death and been found not guilty by reason of insanity in 1973, committed four murders.

Meyers challenged the ruling based on Alaska's constitutional guarantees of liberty and privacy.

In 2006 the Alaska Supreme Court ruled in her favor and placed greater restrictions on non-emergency involuntary psychotropic medication in the state.