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A mobile COVID-19 testing center run by the Oregon Health Authority in November 2020.. The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) is a government agency in the U.S. state of Oregon.It was established by the passage of Oregon House Bill 2009 by the 75th Oregon Legislative Assembly, and split off from Oregon Department of Human Services.
Medical Insurance Pool, Oregon (Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services) Military Department, Oregon; Minority, Women and Emerging Small Business Office (Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services) Mortuary and Cemetery Board, State; Motor Carrier Transportation Division (Oregon Department of Transportation)
Traditional Tribal Health Care American Indian and Alaska Natives experience higher health disparities and a lower life expectancy than most other populations, according to a release from the OHA.
The largest community is Mission, which is the site of the tribal headquarters as well as the Umatilla Agency of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. [2] [3] Some BIA agency offices serve more than one federally recognized tribe, but the Umatilla Agency exclusively serves the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR). [4]
As of 2008, there were nine federally recognized tribes in Oregon. [1] They are listed here by the names by which the governments call themselves. Their BIA names may be different. (See Native American tribes in Oregon for the individual tribes and bands.) Burns Paiute Tribe; Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians
In 2009, Senate Indian Affairs Committee endorsed a bill that would grant federal recognition. [65] Meherrin Nation. [9] [63] State-recognized 1987. [23] Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation. [63] Letter of Intent to Petition 01/06/1995. [23] Sappony (formerly known as Indians of Person County, North Carolina). [63] [64] Waccamaw-Siouan Tribe.
PeaceHealth and Lifepoint Rehabilitation, the entities expected to work collaboratively on the new center, announced Thursday that they have received regulatory approval, through a certificate of ...
The following groups claim to be of Native American, which includes American Indian and Alaska Native, or Métis heritage by ethnicity but have no federal recognition through the United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs Office of Federal Acknowledgment (OFA), [3] United States Department of the Interior Office of the ...