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| Aug 12, 2026 | The newest federally recognized tribe wants better healthcare. It may be on its own | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Andrew Jones, KFF Health News
LUMBERTON, N.C. — Soybean fields surround Angie Lowery’s home in Robeson County, on a plot of rural land in southeastern North Carolina. Dozens of antique gas stati... |
| Feb 27, 2026 | Despite recent gains, tribal citizens descended from slaves face disparate treatment | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By SAVANNAH PETERS and GRAHAM LEE BREWER, Associated Press
MCLOUD, Okla. (AP) — Tribal citizens whose Black ancestors were enslaved by citizens of several tribal nations in Oklahoma are starting to... |
| Jan 25, 2026 | Native Americans are dying from pregnancy. They want a voice to stop the trend | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez, Oona Zenda, KFF Health News
Just hours after Rhonda Swaney left a prenatal appointment for her first pregnancy, she felt severe pain in her stomach and started vomiting.... |
| Dec 17, 2025 | The Lumbee Tribe’s federal recognition is assured with a final push by Trump | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By GRAHAM LEE BREWER
The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina achieved a goal more than a century in the making on Wednesday when it secured federal recognition as a tribal nation through the passage of ... |
| Aug 29, 2025 | Native Americans want to avoid past Medicaid enrollment snafus as work requirements loom | “Never did I talk to anybody,” she said.
Jonnell Wieder is a member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. (Tommy Martino/KFF Health News/TNS)
Jonnell Wieder and daughter Oakleigh McDonald’ s experience is an example of the chaos f... |
| Aug 6, 2025 | Tribal groups assert sovereignty as feds crack down on gender-affirming care | The slanted stripes at the top represent males, the diamonds at the bottom represent females, and the horizontal lines represent the Milky Way, ancestors, and the afterlife, says Jeremiah Jones, a member of the Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shos... |
| Aug 1, 2025 | Tribal health officials work to fill vaccination gaps as measles outbreak spreads | Makaito sat still as a nurse gave him the shot in his arm. “I did it!” he said while smiling at his mother. The Oyate Health Center serves Native Americans in Rapid City, South Dakota, and surrounding areas. (Arielle Zionts/KFF Health News/... |
| Jun 11, 2025 | The Health Crisis in Indian Country: A Broken Promise | In the vast landscapes of Indian Country, a storm brews. The promise of better health care for Native Americans, once a beacon of hope, now flickers dimly. Recent cuts to federal health programs have cast a long shadow over tribal nations, ... |
| Jun 11, 2025 | The Silent Suffering of Native Americans Amid Federal Health Cuts | In the vast landscapes of the American Southwest, a storm brews. It’s not a tempest of wind and rain, but a storm of neglect. Native Americans, particularly those in the Navajo Nation, are feeling the brunt of federal health cuts. Promises ... |
| Jun 10, 2025 | Native Americans hurt by federal health cuts, despite RFK Jr.’s promises of protection | But Nygren and other Navajo leaders said cuts to federal health programs outside the Indian Health Service are hurting Native Americans.
“You’re disrupting real lives,” Cherilyn Yazzie, a Navajo council delegate, told KFF Health News as she... |
| May 31, 2025 | The Birth Crisis: Rural America’s Struggle for Maternal Care | In the heart of rural America, a silent crisis brews. The birth of a child, a moment of joy, is turning into a logistical nightmare for many families. As hospitals close their doors to maternity services, expectant mothers face daunting cho... |
| May 29, 2025 | Rural patients face tough choices when their hospitals stop delivering babies | About 58% of South Dakota counties have no birthing facilities, the second-highest rate among states, after North Dakota, according to March of Dimes. And the South Dakota health department says pregnant women and infants in the state, espe... |
| Mar 26, 2025 | Tribal health leaders say Medicaid cuts would decimate health programs | Indian Country has a unique relationship to Medicaid, because the program helps tribes cover chronic funding shortfalls from the Indian Health Service, the federal agency responsible for providing health care to Native Americans.Related Art... |
| Mar 10, 2025 | National Politics | Musk eyes Social Security and benefit programs for cuts while claiming widespread fraud | Musk also said there were “20 million people who are definitely dead marked as alive in the Social Security database.” However, the leader of the agency has rejected claims about widespread payments to dead people.
“These individuals are no... |
| Mar 9, 2025 | The Quiet Storm: Federal Cuts and Their Impact on Tribal Communities | In the heart of America, a storm brews. It’s not a tempest of wind and rain, but a quiet upheaval threatening the very fabric of tribal communities. Federal funding cuts are not just numbers on a budget sheet; they are lifelines severed, ec... |
| Mar 6, 2025 | National Politics | For tribal communities, federal cuts decimate core programs | “This is going to destroy whole regional economies in rural areas around the country,” said Matthew Fletcher, an Indian law professor at the University of Michigan and a member of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians.
The ... |
| Feb 5, 2025 | Bridging the Gap: Health Care Innovations for Native Americans and New Birth Center Laws in Florida | In the vast landscape of American health care, two recent developments stand out like beacons of hope. One is a program aimed at closing insurance gaps for Native Americans in Nevada. The other is a new law in Florida that allows cesarean s... |
| Feb 3, 2025 | Health | A program to close insurance gaps for Native Americans has gone largely unused | “I shouldn’t need to move to Kansas City to be fully covered,” Rice said.
A new tribal sponsorship program rolled out last year in Nevada is aimed at getting tribal citizens like Rice covered and protecting them from incurring debt for unin... |
| Sep 9, 2024 | Health | Patients suffer when Indian Health Service doesn’t pay for outside care | Eligible patients aren’t guaranteed funding or timely help, however. Some of the Indian Health Service’s 170 service units exhaust their annual pool of money or reserve it for the most serious medical concerns.
Referred-care programs denied... |
| Aug 10, 2024 | Health | Native American public health officials are stuck in data blind spot | Federal investigators and tribal epidemiologists have documented a litany of obstacles keeping state and federal public health information from tribes, including confusion about data-sharing policies, inconsistent processes for requesting i... |
| May 2, 2024 | BCEN Honors Top Board Certified Emergency, Trauma, Flight and Critical Care Ground Transport Nurses with 2024 Distinguished Awards | BCEN recognizes top board certified RNs who specialize in emergency, pediatric emergency, trauma, flight and critical care ground transport with its annual, national Distinguished Awards.
Top specialty certified emergency, pediatric emergen... |
| Apr 24, 2024 | Health | Native Americans have shorter life spans. Better health care isn’t the only answer | Arielle Zionts | KFF Health News (TNS)
HISLE, S.D. — Katherine Goodlow is only 20, but she has experienced enough to know that people around her are dying too young.
Goodlow, a member of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, said she’s lost six frie... |
| Apr 15, 2024 | Native Americans have shorter life spans, and it's not just due to lack of health care | HISLE, S.D. — Katherine Goodlow is only 20, but she has experienced enough to know that people around her are dying too young.
Goodlow, a member of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, said she's lost six friends and acquaintances to suicide, two t... |
| Apr 1, 2024 | Debt-Free Dentistry: A Guide to Loan Forgiveness for Dental Professionals | Share
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Dentistry can be a rewarding and fulfilling career, but dental school leaves many new dentists bogged down with student debt. According to the Education Data Initiative, the average dental school graduate owes ... |
| Feb 23, 2024 | HHS Crisis Resources for Oklahoma | In response to the death of Nex Benedict, a non-binary/two-spirit student in Owasso, Oklahoma, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has compiled resources related to mental health and youth crisis services, tools for youth-servi... |
| Dec 7, 2023 | U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services and Veterans Affairs Renew Reimbursement Agreement | The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Indian Health Service (IHS), and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) have renewed a Reimbursement Agreement that will help both agencies improve the health of American... |
| Nov 10, 2023 | IHS Awards $2.5B Contract to GDIT for Oracle EHR Implementation | What You Should Know:
– The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has selected General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) to build and maintain a new electronic health record (EHR) system utilizing Oracle Cerner technology.... |
| Aug 9, 2023 | PACHA Meeting Spotlights HIV Response in American Indian/Alaska Native Communities | Content From: HIV.gov•Published: August 09, 2023•4 min read
Topics American IndiansAmerican Indians & Alaska NativesIHSIndian Health ServiceMHAFMinority HIV/AIDS FundPACHAPresidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS
Panelists Stephanie Paz... |
| Apr 13, 2023 | 120Water™ Named Cherokee Nation LCR Database of Record | Largest US tribe partners with leading solutions provider to achieve regulatory compliance
We feel confident their experience will correlate directly to our success achieving LCRR compliance.”
— Billy Hix, Cherokee NationZIONSVILLE, IND. , ... |
| Dec 2, 2022 | HHS Roadmap for Behavioral Health Integration | Our nation faces an unprecedented behavioral health crisis among people of all ages.
In his first State of the Union, the President outlined a bold national strategy to prevent, treat, and provide long term recovery supports for mental illn... |
| Aug 29, 2022 | Why Much Of The Student Loan Debt Relief Outrage Is Based On Racism And Miseducation | Having an understanding of American history will allow each of us to recognize the ways that ... [+] systemic racism has and still continues to impact marginalized communities. getty |
| Jun 29, 2022 | Why We Use Inclusive Language to Talk About Abortion | Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in a shameful ruling that decimated access to abortion. Adding insult to injury, this unprecedented assault on our fundamental rights and bodily autonomy took place during Pride month... |
| Jun 24, 2022 | HHS Announces Programs to Join President Biden’s Justice40 Initiative | President Biden is committed to securing environmental justice and spurring economic opportunity for disadvantaged communities that are marginalized and overburdened by pollution and underinvestment in housing, transportation, water and was... |
| May 31, 2022 | IHS Allocates $700 Million From President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to Improve Tribal Water and Sanitation Systems | Today, the Indian Health Service is announcing allocation decisions for $700 million appropriated to the IHS in President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which appropriates $700 million in each fiscal year from FY 2022 through FY 202... |
| May 9, 2022 | Indian Health Service funding provides resources to address Alzheimer’s disease | The Indian Health Service is announcing $5 million to target resources directly to tribes, tribal organizations, urban Indian organizations, and IHS direct service facilities to address Alzheimer’s disease within tribal communities. This ma... |
| Oct 11, 2021 | New Partnership Helps Navajo Elders Manage Medications, Easing Caregiver Burdens | Delivery of the Hero medication management device to a recipient and their caregiver and spa in ... [+] Navajo Nation. Valerie Tsosie |
| Jul 27, 2021 | Preventing the next indigenous healthcare crisis | Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it – at least, according to philosopher George Santayana. Most of us simply shorten that to say that history repeats itself. But is it true when it comes to healthcare? A look at Na... |
| Apr 15, 2021 | Alleva’s Critical Telehealth Support for Treatment Centers Grows by 323% During Pandemic | Alleva's built-in telehealth feature provides behavioral health facilities with a HIPAA-compliant way to connect with thousands of isolated clients in despair. “Before Covid, we averaged around 60 thousand telehealth minutes a month, but in... |
| Apr 19, 2020 | Beating Covid Is All About Electricity | The connections for a patient bed with a respirator are seen in the intensive care unit at the ... [+] University hospital of Aachen, western Germany, on April 15, 2020 during the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Ina FASSBENDE... |
| Oct 14, 2013 | Native Americans exempt from insurance mandate, but could benefit from marketplace plans | Indian health advocates said the benefits are many. “It’s an unprecedented opportunity,” said Roxane Spruce Bly, who is working with New Mexico’s health insurance exchange to provide outreach to Native Americans. “It’s the biggest thing to ... |
| Here’s how to get your student loans forgiven — even if Biden’s plan falls through | President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan may fall through due to challenges in Supreme Court.
Borrowers should explore the many other loan relief options across the country for which they may qualify. |
| Preventing the next indigenous healthcare crisis | Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it – at least, according to philosopher George Santayana. Most of us simply shorten that to say that history repeats itself. But is it true when it comes to healthcare? A look at Na... |
| Native Americans exempt from insurance mandate, but could benefit from marketplace plans | For most uninsured Americans, the motivation for checking out the health insurance exchanges is simple – they could face stiff penalties if they don’t sign up. For Native Americans, the decision is more complicated.
Longstanding treaties wi... |
| ‘It can tear a family apart’: The opioid crisis sweeps through Cherokee Nation | TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — Dr. Anna Miller sits with her legs pulled up, boots kicked off, in an exam chair at Cherokee Nation W.W. Hastings Hospital. She’s waiting for her first Suboxone patient of the day.
She knows the odds are stacked against t... |
| There aren’t nearly enough Native American physicians. A crash course in medicine seeks to change that | BOSTON — She’d just used a defibrillator to resuscitate a man whose heart had stopped, and now, in the next room, a baby’s head was crowning, the mother emitting a stream of loud, harrowing moans.
“I see a head,” shouted Jordan Owen. “The b... |
