The Indian Health Service today announced the largest hiring initiative in its 70-year history, opening thousands of ...

The Indian Health Service remains underfunded in a newly passed spending minibus that allocates $8.05 billion to the ...

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“Nobody loves our community and our relatives like we do. No one's going to look out or take care of our health system and advocate for our health systems like we will," said Jerilyn Church, CEO of ...

In Indian country today, funding for health care programs runs dry by June of each year. After that, the only way an individual can qualify for medical care in Native American communities is if they ...

When the Indian Health Service can’t provide medical care to Native Americans, the federal agency can refer them elsewhere. But each year, it rejects tens of thousands of requests to fund those ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Opinion. In May, the Trump administration released its fiscal 2026 budget. Conspicuously absent from the proposal was a critical ...

For some citizens of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, it’s not so easy to see a doctor. There’s a single physician at the Indian Health Service clinic that serves a population of ...

A cascade of actions from the Trump administration represents a “grave threat” to health care, social, educational and other critical services in Indian Country, including for Native American ...