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OEHE
Programs:
The Office of Environmental Health and Engineering provides expertise in the following specific areas:
The Health Care Facilities Engineering
- Manages the planning, design, and construction
of new health care delivery space and major modernization and renovation
of existing space;
- Develops and maintains new health care
facilities construction priority lists for use by IHS and the Congress;
- Manages the planning, design, and construction
of personnel quarters where needed to ensure that adequate housing is
available for IHS staff;
- Provides guidance to tribal organizations
seeking to construct facilities that will house health care delivery
services for American Indians and Alaska Natives;
- Allocates funds appropriated for construction
of health care facilities;
- Provides engineering assistance with health
care facilities master plans;
- Manages renovation and modernization of
existing facilities to meet needs of changing health care delivery
program;
- Manages maintenance of existing facilities in a
safe, usable condition; and
- Advocates for tribes during the development of policies,
regulations, and programs.
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Facilities Operations
- Develops and maintains an inventory of
engineering deficiencies in IHS and Indian and Alaska Native health care
facilities;
- Maintains data for allocation of funds
appropriated for health care facilities management;
- Manages implementation and maintenance of the
new IHS Health Systems Planning Project;
- Maintains IHS Federal facilities energy usage
data;
- Coordinates IHS Clinical Engineering Program;
and
- Maintains
an inventory of IHS real property;
- Manages IHS real property.
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Environmental Engineering
- Develops and maintains an inventory of
sanitation deficiencies in Indian an Alaska native Communities for use
by IHS and the Congress;
- Provides environmental engineering assistance
with utility master plans and sanitary surveys;
- Plans and coordinates multi-agency funded
sanitation projects and assists with grant applications to leverage IHS
funds;
- Allocates funds appropriated for water supply
and waste disposal facilities;
- Provides professional engineering design and/or
construction services for water supply and waste disposal facilities;
- Provides technical consultation and training to
improve the operation and maintenance of tribally owned water supply and
waste disposal systems;
- Advocates for tribes during the development of
policies, regulations, and programs; and
- Assists tribes during sanitation facility emergencies.
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Engineering Services
- Administers and manages design of health care
facilities construction projects;
- Administers and manages construction projects
to build, renovate, and/or modernize health care facilities and
personnel quarters;
- Provides technical consultation to tribes and
Area Offices regarding planning, design and construction of health care
facilities;
- Provides professional architectural and
engineering services for health care facilities design and construction;
and
- Advocates for tribes during the development of policies,
regulations, and programs.
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