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Indian Health Service Self-Governance Review Through 1994 Negotiations, Kai Kauffman And Associates, Inc., Er. Kemper Jan 1994

Indian Health Service Self-Governance Review Through 1994 Negotiations, Kai Kauffman And Associates, Inc., Er. Kemper

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This report documents the activities of the Indian Health Service (IHS) pertaining to planning and negotiating compacts with tribes in the early stages of the Self-Governance Demonstration Project.This document is written primarily for those IHS employees who have been involved in Self-Governance (SG) negotiations from the Headquarters or Area levels. Topics covered in this report include: 1) Self-Governance Process; 2) Compacts and Annual Funding Agreements; 3) Policy Issues; 4) Residual Determination; 5) Baseline Measures, Reporting, and Evaluations; 6) Tribal Share Methodology; and 7) Property and Facilities. This report provides individuals knowledgeable about Self-Governance, with documentation to recapture and reexamine the …


Evaluation Of Ihs Mid-Level Providers, Native American Consultants, Inc. Jan 1994

Evaluation Of Ihs Mid-Level Providers, Native American Consultants, Inc.

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The health care situation for American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) urban populations varies widely throughout the United States. Some urban areas offer extensive facilities through the Indian Health Service (IHS), or other health care providers. Other urban centers have no options for AI/AN health care at all. This evaluation study examines the health care provider status for the AI/AN populations in six metropolitan sites - 1) Baltimore, Maryland; 2) Denver, Colorado; 3) Las Vegas, Nevada; 4) Minneapolis, Minnesota; 5) Phoenix, Arizona; and 6) Portland, Oregon.A series of meetings was held to discuss and clarify contract requirements, roles and responsibilities …


Tribal Environmental & Natural Resource Assistance Handbook., Unknown Jan 1994

Tribal Environmental & Natural Resource Assistance Handbook., Unknown

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This Roundtable on Health Care Reform was the second Indian Health Service (IHS)-sponsored Roundtable on the topic of Health Care Reform and its impact on Indian health. This second Roundtable was held to provide tribal leaders, urban health care providers, and national Indian organizations with the opportunity to contribute their perspectives on detailed substance of the Health Security Act and other reform proposals, and to provide the IHS with Consensus Statements from which further policy analysis can occur. The Consensus Statements reflected in this document were developed through a process which allowed for presentation of most current information, deliberation, and …


Performance Improvement 1997. Evaluation Activities Of The U.S. Department Of Health And Human Services., Unknown Jan 1994

Performance Improvement 1997. Evaluation Activities Of The U.S. Department Of Health And Human Services., Unknown

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The Indian Health Service has held a series of Roundtable Conferences on topics of significance to the policy and planning in the IHS. The IHS has used Roundtable Conferences as a means to retrieve information and consensus from leaders and experts in a particular field. This Roundtable on Health Care Reform is the second IHS-sponsored Roundtable on this topic. This document contains information in the following sections: 1) legal history of Federal responsibility to provide care; 2) Indian health care delivery system; 3) health care reform and Indian health; and 4) analysis of Health Care Security Act proposal. This Briefing …