Connecting the Mentally Ill to Treatment – Not Jail
Why are so many people with mental illness in jail? If your immediate answer is, “Because they’ve committed a crime” – you’ll be surprised (and hopefully chagrined) to learn that’s often not the case. Plenty of people with mental illness who’ve never broken a law or harmed anyone (other than themselves) enter the criminal justice […]
Restoring Food Sovereignty for Native American Communities
Good health begins with nourishment, but food poverty is epic in the United States – and it’s an ongoing dilemma in Indigenous communities, where 1 in 4 Native Americans is food insecure. In Arizona’s Apache County, home to the Navajo Nation, the Zuni tribe, and the Fort Apache tribe, the rate is 30 percent. One […]
Announcing Quick Response Force
Emergency rooms: they are the last, most urgent, point of care for us all. Car accidents, burns, strokes, gunshots, heart attacks – when an unexpected medical event happens, we all depend on the skills of the closest ED team to save us. But what happens when there is no team? No physician, no experienced provider […]
Celebrate Leap Year: Eat the Frog
Happy Leap Year! (Fun fact: people born on Leap Day are called Leaplings. We don’t have a Leapling working at Tribal Health but our CEO Morgan Haynes was hired on Leap Day 2016!) The symbol of Leap Day is a frog, which makes this month the perfect time to revisit Mark Twain’s sage advice: “If […]
Meet our February Nurses of the Month: Luis Caso and Vicente Figueroa
by Ryan Scott For February Nurse of the Month, we decided to profile two of our nurses who are a couple. Meet Luis Caso and Vicente Figueroa, who talked to Ryan Scott about their travels, their nursing philosophy, their love of art, and their professional aspirations. As a cool Arizona day gets started, […]
10 Things to Know About Our New CEO Morgan Haynes and President Whittney LaCroix
You may have noticed that changes are afoot at Tribal Health! Please join us in celebrating the recent changes to our executive team: Our President Morgan Haynes is now Chief Executive Officer. Our Chief Nursing Officer Whittney LaCroix (Sicangu Lakota) is now President. Our former CEO Dr. John Shufeldt is now Executive Chairman of the […]
