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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. IHS is the principal federal health care provider and ...
The National Health Policy was endorsed by the Parliament of India in 1983 and updated in 2002, and then again updated in 2017. The recent four main updates in 2017 mention the need to focus on the growing burden of non-communicable diseases, the emergence of the robust healthcare industry, growing incidences of unsustainable expenditure due to healthcare costs, and rising economic growth ...
Mary L. Smith (born August 28, 1962) is an American lawyer, senior executive, and civic leader in private and public sectors. She served as the CEO of the Indian Health Services from October 2015 to February 2017, a $6 billion national healthcare system with 15,000 employees, 26 hospitals and over 50 clinics.
Its latest report says the Indian Health Service needs $63 billion to cover patients’ needs for fiscal year 2026, including $10 billion for referred care. Brendan White, an agency spokesperson ...
About 9,000 Indian Health Service employees, delivering healthcare to about 2.2 million Native Americans and Alaska Natives, worked without pay, according to the Health and Human Services ...
Yvette Roubideaux (born 1963 [1]) is an American doctor and public health administrator. She is a member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe of South Dakota. In May 2009, Roubideaux was confirmed as the Director of the Indian Health Service (IHS), an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services. She was the first woman to be appointed as ...
Tso joined the Indian Health Service in 1984, serving in Portland, Oregon, and at the agency's headquarters in Rockville, Maryland. [2] [3] She has since served as area director of the Navajo Area Unit of the Indian Health Service. [4] [5] On September 21, 2022, the U.S. Senate confirmed Tso in a voice vote. [6] [7]
The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), also known as Indian Affairs (IA), [2] is a United States federal agency within the Department of the Interior.It is responsible for implementing federal laws and policies related to Native Americans and Alaska Natives, and administering and managing over 55,700,000 acres (225,000 km 2) of reservations held in trust by the U.S. federal government for ...