Tribes and Facilities Today
The Minne-Tohe Health Center serves the members of the Three Affiliated Tribes. The 2-physician center is four miles from New Town, ND. The center is an outpatient facility with specialty and dental clinics. Inpatient patient care is provided by contract with local hospitals including the Minot hospital. The tribes have a contract to operate two health stations, one in Mandaree and one in White Shield, which are staffed by a physician's assistant from Fort Berthold. The tribes also operate a Health Care Satellite Clinic in Twin Buttes which is staffed by a nurse practitioner.
The 16-bed hospital at Fort Yates, ND, has a staff of four physicians and a dialysis unit which opened in the spring of 1989. Dental care is provided in the main clinic at the hospital by two dental officers and in a mobile clinic by one dental officer. An outpatient health center at McLaughlin has one staff physician. There are also health stations at Cannonball, Bullhead, and Wakpala. The health stations provide minimal outpatient care and are staffed by a physician's assistant, a public health nurse, and a community health representative. The health stations are visited at least once a week by a physician from the Fort Yates hospital.
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The IHS Hospital in Eagle Butte is a modern, newly renovated facility with 27 beds and an active outpatient clinic. Staffed by five physicians, it is the only inpatient facility on the Reservation. The dental program includes a five-chair clinic at the hospital and three off-site dental clinics. The Cheyenne River Service Unit has four satellite clinics which offer ambulatory services and are operated by the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe with tribal support staff.
The Rapid City Service Area provides health care to all the Indian people in Rapid City and is unique in that it is not located on a Reservation. The 32-bed IHS Hospital has a staff of ten physicians who provide inpatient and outpatient adult, pediatric, and prenatal care. Major surgery and obstetrics, including complicated cases referred from other service units, are performed at Rapid City Regional Hospital. Inpatient psychiatric care (ten beds), psychological testing, outpatient psychiatric counseling and evaluations are also provided at the Rapid City Regional Hospital. The Rapid City Regional Dental Lab provides services for all of the Aberdeen Area major surgery referrals. The Tribal Health Advisory Board has received a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health for an alcoholism project which provides counseling and follow-up programs to help recovering alcoholics find and retain jobs.
In addition to the new 46-bed Pine Ridge facility, a nearby Health Center in Wamblee is staffed by a pharmacist, dentist, clinic nurse, a physician's assistant, and physician consultants. Also located on the Pine Ridge Reservation is the new health center in Kyle, and a health center is currently being planned for Manderson.
IHS is the primary source of health care for the Rosebud Sioux people. They are spread among 20 reservation communities, some of which lie outside the boundaries of the Reservation. Despite the Reservation's 1500 square miles, the Tribe provides 24-hour ambulance service to its members. A new 35-bed comprehensive medical/surgical hospital with active obstetric and pediatric services and several field clinics are staffed by 11 physicians, nurse/midwives, and physician assistants. Dental care is also offered at the new hospital.
The Quentin N. Burdick Memorial Health Care facility has 29 beds and 11 physicians. In addition to inpatient care, the hospital provides general surgery, ENT surgery, obstetrics, and has the only CAT scan in the area. The outpatient department offers basic service and specialty clinics with contracted specialists. The dental program consists of a full clinic at the hospital and a two-chair dental satellite station at Dunseith. The facility also includes a mental health department which consists of one full-time consulting clinical psychologist, one staff psychologist, a psychiatric nurse, and a psychiatrist. Click here for further information on The Turtle Mountain Reservation.
The Spirit Lake Nation is served by a three-physician ambulatory care facility. Complex outpatient services or inpatient care are referred to a contract facility. Fort Totten operates a dental clinic and a diabetes program with comprehensive screening, education, and treatment. The center is also one of three in the Aberdeen Area to receive a grant to study cardiovascular disease among Indians.
The Sisseton Service Unit operates a five-physician, 18-bed hospital with outpatient and dental clinics in Sisseton, SD. The hospital also boasts a well-developed referral system. The programs administered by the Sisseton-Wahpeton Tribe include an alcohol treatment program, community health, family planning, maternal and child health services.
Each reservation has its own outpatient health center and dental clinic. The new Health Center at Fort Thompson is staffed by two physicians. The Health Center at Lower Brule is staffed by two physicians and a physician's assistant. Emergency patients are seen after hours and on weekends at Mid-Dakota Hospital in Chamberlain, SD. Inpatient care is contracted to area hospitals, the closest being Mid-Dakota.
The Wagner Health Center is an ambulatory care unit with 24-hour emergency room service. The ambulatory unit contains nine exam rooms, lab, X-ray, ENT, pharmacy, dental unit, public health nursing, mental health services, and optometry services. Obstetric care is provided by contract with the Sacred Heart Hospital in Yankton. The outpatient department serves both the Yankton and the Santee Sioux tribes and contract specialists hold clinics at the facility. There is also a small outpatient clinic for students at the Tribal school in Marty.
The Wagner Community Memorial Hospital is a 20-bed private facility with a full array of ancillary services. The hospital includes a one-day-a-week surgery program and a family clinic. Both facilities are staffed by two family practice physicians and one internal medicine physician.
The four-physician, 30-bed hospital in Winnebago supplies basic health care to members of the Winnebago and Omaha Tribes, and to a significant number of Indians living in the Sioux City area. The facility maintains a drug and alcohol dependency unit of 12 beds. The hospital provides Level Three emergency room services. The outpatient services include dental and specialty clinics. The University of Nebraska has an OB/GYN clinic in Winnebago, and Marion Health Center in Sioux City has a direct-link computerized EKG interpretation. The Winnebago Diabetes Project is one of two within the Aberdeen Area IHS. Its two main objectives are to improve the quality of patient care and to reduce the number of diabetic complications. The Winnebago facility also shares some health services with the nearby Omaha Tribal Reservation.
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