Building Clinician Diversity: Helping Indigenous Communities Take the Healthcare Reins
One of the most pressing issues in tribal healthcare is the extreme shortfall of Native American providers and lack of clinician diversity. The Association of American Medical Colleges reports that fewer than 1% of students identify as American Indian or Alaska Native. Not surprisingly, physician vacancy rates are nearly 30% in some areas of Indian […]
Clinical Oversight Transforms Care at Tribal Hospitals
Providers at Native American health facilities face an overwhelming number of problems. Clinician shortages, outdated technology, a scarcity of necessary supplies and resources, lack of clinical oversight, and inadequate funding are major barriers to quality patient care. But Tribal EM is out to change all that. When CEO and founder, John Shufeldt, MD, first began […]
Coronavirus: How Tribal Communities Can Prepare
As medical facilities and providers across the U.S. determine the best way to deal with the spreading coronavirus, one of the groups particularly at risk are Native American communities. Indian Country Today reported that tribal communities are unprepared for a possible coronavirus epidemic due to a lack of resources including physicians and nurses familiar with […]
