Is it Time to Go Back to School? Earn a Degree on Our Dime.

Are you a lifelong learner? If you work in healthcare, we’re guessing yes. From patient relationships to clinical collaboration, you learn – and teach – new lessons every day as a provider. But sometimes that on-the-job education needs to be supplemented with a formal degree or certification to get where you want to go. That’s […]

Meet Our June Nurse of the Month, Jennifer Schindler!

Meet Jennifer, our June Nurse of the Month! As Angelia Frederick, FNP says, “Jen is a breath of fresh air. Working with Jenny is a delight – her positive upbeat attitude makes the night go by with ease. Jenny is very knowledgeable and she’s the nurse you want by your side when things go south. I love […]

Our 2024 Summer Reading List

What’s on your summer reading list? At Tribal Health, we are voracious readers – and we’ve got plenty of books waiting in our To Be Read pile. How could we not when this summer brings us a memoir from Salmon Rushdie, a fresh look at AI from Ray Kurzweil, a new novel from Tommy Orange, […]

An Indigenous Patient’s Perspective on Healthcare

Cierra George

By Cierra George (Navajo) Our ancestors taught us there’s no better medicine than traditional/natural herbs with ceremonies and that nobody can heal you better than a dedicated medicine man. In a cultural aspect, going to a hospital and having a White man provide you healthcare as a Native patient can be difficult to accept. Times […]

Meet our Quick Response Force Lead: Art Sakakihara-Chavarria! (Part 2)

emergency room

A few days ago, we published Part 1 of our interview with Art Sakakihara-Chavarria (Mescalero Apache), MS-APA, PA-C. Today, we continue the story of Art’s journey into Indigenous health.   So Art, how did you get started with Tribal Health? Well, this is a great origin story, For years I worked with a physician (Dr. […]