The Health Center had 16,990 primary care and 33,860 other visits for a total of 55,288 patient visits in FY 1996. The 2,700 SF clinic offers limited primary care on weekdays from 8 AM to 5 PM, and operates a 24 hour, 7 day a week ambulance service using EMT’s and First Responders The health center bills Medicaid and other third party payers. The Tribe and IHS employ eight physicians, six dentists, one physician’s assistant, and thirteen mid-level practitioners who are RN’s, NP’s or PHN’s. General medical services are available daily in addition to special services for well childcare, internal medicine, women’s health care and diabetes. The JCAHO accredited facility opened in 1990 and houses tribal and IHS operated programs that offer a full range of ambulatory health and dental services. The Tribe’s Contract Health Service Delivery Area (CHSDA) is Klickitat, Lewis, Skamania and Yakima Counties. The Tribe also operates a satellite MCH center with 1,585 SF, in the Apas Goudy Housing Project in Wapato.

Itinerant health and social services are offered through the maternal child health, nutrition, WIC, CHR and alcoholism programs. The Tribe owns and operates the White Swan Health Clinic which is located in the rural community of White Swan, 20 miles west of Toppenish. Internal medicine, women’s health care, elder care clinic/pediatrics and In-patient services at a local private hospital facility. The AAAHC accredited facility opened in 1990 and houses tribal and IHS operated programs offering:Īmbulatory primary care, public health, dental services, mental health, optometry, and audiology, The Indian Health Service operates a 40,000 SF facility located near Toppenish. The Yakama Reservation is primarily agricultural on the valley floor, with range or grazing in the foothills, and forested to the west and south. government, they reserved the right to hunt, fish, access and use traditional cultural sites, gather traditional foods and medicines, and pasture in all of our “usual and accustomed places” within this ceded area. Although the tribe ceded 10,828,800 acres of ancestral homeland to the U.S. The Yakama Indian Reservation is comprised of 1,371,918 acres. The Yakama Service Unit is located on the Yakama Indian Reservation on the edge of the town of Toppenish.

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