Our 2024 Roadmap: Where Our Service Models Are Going

We’ve got big plans for 2024 – and we’re sure you do, too. Let’s see if they align. Last year we continued our trend of year-over-year growth – and we’re on track to expand further this year with a lineup of new contracts in new states. Along with supplying physicians and nurses from our robust […]

Setting Goals: A Key to Productivity and Happiness

by Jed Rudd If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. – Albert Einstein As every season turns and turns, we eventually hit a key demarcation of time: the end of a calendar year. We made up time. I get it – time is a […]

Our Top 10 Stories of 2023

Before we put this year to bed, let’s look at some of the stories that stirred up the most attention. Below are the articles and interviews that sparked interested in our 2023 readers – stories on travel nursing finances, Native American sobriety, nuclear testing, and beyond. #1. Highly popular was our interview with Lee Yaiva, […]

Happy Holidays from Tribal Health

It’s here: what for many of us is the most blissful and meaningful time of year. Over the next week, most of us will spend time with family and maybe reflect on the past year as we make our 2024 goals. Some of us will light menorah candles or put out luminarias; some celebrated Diwali, […]

How Providers Can Quickly Improve Healthcare for 52% of Native Patients

In the ongoing conversation about cultural competency, you’ll run into this term now and then: Clinical discrimination. Did you ever wonder exactly what it means? Wonder no longer, because KFF’s 2023 Survey on Racism, Discrimination and Health lays it all out by the numbers. These surveyors spoke to more than 6,000 people who’d visited a […]

Meet Our December Nurse of the Month: Katie Schindler

This month we profile a beloved face in our Great Plains facility – Katie Schindler! Katie, thanks for speaking to us. So we know you work out of Pine Ridge IHS – how long have you been there? I’ve been at Pine Ridge for two and a half years. Before that, I flew for medical […]