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A new economic analysis found Cherokee Nation Health Services generated more than $2 billion in statewide economic output in fiscal year 2025, highlighting the economic role tribal healthcare systems can play in rural Oklahoma.
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The Karuk Tribe said it has secured $1.5 million in federal funding to build workforce housing for healthcare professionals serving its communities.
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The Indian Health Service has selected three tribal health organizations for the agency’s first-ever Long-Term Care Joint Venture Construction Program projects, marking a new federal effort to expand skilled nursing and elder care capacity in Indian Country.
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The Osage Nation has begun construction on a new 50,000-square-foot health clinic in Skiatook, Okla., expanding healthcare capacity and continuing a broader tribal investment in healthcare infrastructure across northeastern Oklahoma.
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Tribal Development Partners LLC said it closed financing on a $132 million workforce housing project in Kotzebue, Alaska, aimed at stabilizing health care staffing across 12 Native communities in the Northwest Arctic region.
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Cherokee Nation will undertake its first economic impact study of its health care system, a review tribal leaders say is long overdue for a network that has grown into one of the largest medical providers in Indian Country.
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Cherokee Nation is pursuing a $30 million partnership with the University of Oklahoma to establish a satellite nursing campus in Tahlequah, Okla., as part of a broader effort to address healthcare workforce shortages in the region.
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The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation will build a new 21,000-square-foot health center in partnership with Hartford HealthCare, expanding access to medical services for tribal members and the broader southeastern Connecticut community.
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The United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma completed the acquisition of a healthcare administration building on Dec. 16 — a real estate transaction that expands the tribe’s health infrastructure and reorganizes how its health programs are administered in the Tahlequah area.
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San Carlos Apache Healthcare Corporation closed on $46.25 million in taxable revenue bonds to finance a 100-bed long-term care and skilled nursing facility on the San Carlos Apache Tribe's reservation in Arizona.