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Tribal Development Partners LLC said it closed financing on a $132 million workforce housing project in Kotzebue, Alaska, aimed at stabilizing health care staffing across 12 Native communities in the Northwest Arctic region.
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Cherokee Nation will undertake its first economic impact study of its health care system, a review tribal leaders say is long overdue for a network that has grown into one of the largest medical providers in Indian Country.
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Cherokee Nation is pursuing a $30 million partnership with the University of Oklahoma to establish a satellite nursing campus in Tahlequah, Okla., as part of a broader effort to address healthcare workforce shortages in the region.
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The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation will build a new 21,000-square-foot health center in partnership with Hartford HealthCare, expanding access to medical services for tribal members and the broader southeastern Connecticut community.
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The United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma completed the acquisition of a healthcare administration building on Dec. 16 — a real estate transaction that expands the tribe’s health infrastructure and reorganizes how its health programs are administered in the Tahlequah area.
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San Carlos Apache Healthcare Corporation closed on $46.25 million in taxable revenue bonds to finance a 100-bed long-term care and skilled nursing facility on the San Carlos Apache Tribe's reservation in Arizona.
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The Indian Health Service named Clayton Fulton, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, as its new chief of staff. Fulton will oversee coordination of agency operations and support the Office of the Director in implementing initiatives and policy priorities, the agency said in a statement.
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Cherokee Nation leaders and community members gathered Wednesday as the tribe officially assumed operations of the former Claremore Indian Hospital, the last federally run Indian Health Service facility within the Cherokee Nation Reservation.
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The Decolonizing Wealth Project will distribute at least $15 million over three years to expand mental health services for young people, particularly those from marginalized communities.
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Tribal Diagnostics LLC, a Native American-owned clinical laboratory, opened a new 25,000-square-foot facility in Oklahoma City on April 14, significantly expanding its capacity to serve tribal health systems and underserved communities.