Alaska Tribal Health Providers
memorialize
past and ongoing health care efforts
March 27, 2004
Saturday - 2:25 am
On March 17, 2004, a historic event took place in Anchorage,
Alaska. It was 10 years ago that Alaska's Tribes began organizing
to develop the "Alaska Tribal Health Compact" in
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KIC Team
Cheryl Haven KIC Grants
& Contracts Coordinator; Tribal Council President Stephanie
Rainwater-Sande; Karen Carter KIC Clinic Health Administrator;
David Landis KIC Deputy General Manager;
and Lance Mertz KIC Finance Director...
Photo courtesy KIC
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order to own, operate
and manage tribal health care. To commemorate this anniversary,
a gathering of tribal health organization board members, tribal
leaders, health directors and others met to provide a forum for
the exchange of current information in key areas of importance
related to Alaska Native health. To memorialize these past and
ongoing health care efforts, a "signing ceremony" of
the Alaska Tribal Health System Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
was also featured.
The purposes of the MOU are
to: 1) Define the essential components of the Alaska Tribal Health
System and their interrelationships; 2) Define the commitments
of participants to continue and enhance the unique tribal cooperation
and coordination regarding health services that have developed
in Alaska, and; 3) To ensure that all Alaska Natives have access
to a comprehensive, integrated, tribally-controlled health care
delivery system for the improvement of the health and well-being
of Alaska native peoples.
KIC, by resolution, authorized Tribal Council President Stephanie
Rainwater-Sande to sign the MOU stating, "Whereas Alaska
native tribal health providers benefit from being organized as
a statewide system for the purposes of services planning, resource
utilization, advocacy, and health care coordination."
Tribal Council President
Stephanie Rainwater-Sande signing the MOU
Photo courtesy KIC
The MOU signing ceremony was timed to take advantage of the annual
Indian Health Service - Tribal Health Compact Co-signer "Pre-negotiation"
sessions on March 18 and 19th, at which time the federal agency
and the Tribes engage in face-to-face talks regarding current
laws and funding levels affecting all of Alaska's Native people.
After returning to Ketchikan, President Rainwater-Sande said:
"KIC's negotiating team was very effective, holding the
line on funding levels and informing the IHS of our desire for
tribal consultation in Ketchikan."
Source of News Release:
Ketchikan Indian Community
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