The only Native American community health organization in Los Angeles has chosen a new leader to guide a planned expansion of ...

Dr. Picotte was the very first Native American physician and founded the center back in 1913 as the first privately funded ...

The building is dedicated to sharing the story of Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte, who became the first Native American to earn ...

Two Native American women founded the United American Indian Involvement community clinic in Los Angeles 50 years ago. Their mission is to care for the unique needs of the urban native population.

Native Americans face huge healthcare disparities. Here’s a way to help close the gaps The Northern Navajo Medical Center in Shiprock, N.M., shown in 2019, is run by the Indian Health Service.

Inaccessible and delayed care contributes to disproportionate rates of Native Americans in Washington dying from preventable and treatable causes before age 75, according to the Commonwealth Fund ...

These numbers mean that Native American people get less care and as a result die younger. ... On the reservation, we can’t wait for an elder to reach out when he is isolated at home, ...

Health care is a treaty right promised to Native Americans to account for injustices dating back to the nation’s founding. But the IHS is chronically underfunded.

Minnesota celebrates first annual Native American Elder Day 01:47. RICHFIELD, Minn. — A celebration of tradition and culture was held as hundreds gathered to enjoy the inaugural Native American ...

American Indians and Native Alaskans face a “disproportionate burden” of oral health disease in the U.S. from childhood onward, a crisis with roots in structural racism and exacerbated by lack ...

On the first annual Native American Elder Day, they are honored and celebrated. More than 300 elders from different nations, across Minnesota and Canada, made the trek to Richfield's Veterans Park ...