Mark Trahant

Is there a Plan B?

That is the question tribes, Indian organizations and government agencies should be asking—and answering, because it looks more and more likely there will be a federal government shutdown early next month....

February 21, 2011
The Indian Health Service's health information system was certified for Meaningful Use , which essentially means its electronic health records met the Department of Health and Huma...
Infection rates of HIV and AIDS have declined worldwide, yet diagnoses among American Indians and Alaska Natives are increasing, according to the Office of National AIDS Policy ...
This video series, posted by WyteDove on March 23, 2011 on YouTube educates viewers on the state of Native American healthcare, from new diseases brought by the white man to the be...
Over the past three years, Dan Boccia has lead an engineering team that produced 24 plan sets, worth an estimated construction value of $48 million, that improved sanitation in mor...
Being committed to working hand-in-hand with tribes across the country was the message Health & Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius shared on March 1 during the National...
The largest funded stimulus wastewater infrastructure project involving an American Indian tribe has begun as a joint undertaking of the U.S...
"It's barebones only at the Indian Health Service hospital that I do surgery at," said Billings, Montana surgeon Joseph Erpelding to the Great Falls Tribune ...
ICTMN Staff
December 30, 2010
The Aberdeen Area of the Indian Health Service (IHS) is in a “chronic state of crisis,” said U.S...
Rep. Tom Cole

In their recent letter to Indian Country Today Media Network, Congressmen Ed Markey and Ben Ray Lujan expressed concern that chronically underfunded tribal programs are in jeopardy of damaging further spending reductions....

November 05, 2012

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