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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 ...
Medicare Part A. Medicare Part A is hospital insurance. You can use it to receive inpatient care in a hospital or long-term care facility. You can use Part A at an IHS hospital or any other ...
January 28, 2018. Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services. October 6, 2017. (Confirmed October 4, 2017, 57–38)[4] General Counsel of Health and Human Services. Robert Charrow. January 2, 2018. (Confirmed December 21, 2017, voice vote) Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Website. www.hhs.gov. The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is a cabinet-level executive branch department of the U.S. federal government created to protect the health of the U.S. people and providing essential human services. Its motto is "Improving the health, safety, and well-being of America". [3]
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 ...
PRIMARY LOCATION. Usphs Indian Hospital. 111 Washington Ave NW. Wagner, SD 57380. Tel: (605) 384-3621. Physicians at this location.
Ihs Outpatient Center. 9330 Poppy Dr Ste 201. Dallas, TX 75218. Tel: (214) 324-6770. Physicians at this location.
The IHS National Diabetes Program was created in 1979 to combat the escalating diabetes epidemic. [56] The current head of the IHS, Mary L. Smith, Cherokee, took the position in March 2016 and had pledged to improve the IHS and focus on comprehensive health care for all the tribes and people covered by the department. [30]