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The Indian Health Service (IHS) is an operating division (OPDIV) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). IHS is responsible for providing direct medical and public health services to members of federally recognized Native American Tribes and Alaska Native people .
The Portland Area Institutional Review Board (IRB) of the Indian Health Service (IHS) is run through the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board. It reviews all research that uses IHS facilities, data, staff resources, or funding and that affects members of the Portland Area American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) population and tribes.
The Native American Health Center, Inc. was founded in 1972 as the Urban Indian Health Board, Inc. [2] NAHC operates two sites in San Francisco, two sites in Oakland, one site in Richmond, and eight school based health centers. [3] NAHC provides medical, dental and family services to Native Americans and the residents of the surrounding ...
Indian Health Services (IHS) has been providing healthcare to Native Americans and Alaska Natives since 1955. It operates facilities in 37 states and acts as a healthcare advocate for Native ...
The Indian Health Service (IHS) operates facilities open only to Native Americans from recognized tribes. These facilities, plus tribal facilities and privately contracted services funded by IHS to increase system capacity and capabilities, provide medical care to tribespeople beyond what can be paid for by any private insurance or other ...
Data collected by means of secondary sources, such as the US Census Bureau and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics, showed that from 1999 to 2009, Alaska Natives and Native Americans had high mortality rates from infectious diseases when compared to the mortality rate of white Americans.
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The hospital management was transferred to the non-profit Tuba City Health Care Corporation in 2002. As a 638-site, the hospital is operated under the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975. In 2010, an ambulatory medical center and outpatient care service were opened on the hospital campus. [1] [2] [3] [4]