9 Practices for Building Health Equity
“You never know who’s swimming naked until the tide goes out.” Warren Buffett might have been speaking of economics when he said that, but the principle applies to healthcare as well. Sometimes it takes a disease, an accident – or a pandemic – to reveal who’s really unprotected when a medical disaster hits. The determining […]
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
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)
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. […]
Meet our Quick Response Force Lead: Art Sakakihara-Chavarria!
You’ve probably been hearing a lot about Quick Response Force, which covers gaps in emergency medicine coverage on Indigenous lands. Today you’ll meet none other than the mastermind behind the project – physician assistant Art Sakakihara-Chavarria, MS-APA, PA-C (Mescalero Apache.) So Art, we need to know everything about you. Let’s start with the basics. Where […]
