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Va'ohtama: Welcome from the Northern Cheyenne Service Unit
Allow me to share with you briefly, information about the Indian Health Service on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in southeastern Montana. We are a beautiful, modern ambulatory care facility that offers outpatient care as well as 24 hour urgent care to approximately 5000 enrolled patients. Currently, we have 5 family physicians, a pediatrician and two nurse practitioners that staff our ambulatory and urgent care facilities. Weekends and major holidays are covered by locum tenens. Services also provided include Optometry, Dental, Physical Therapy and Behavioral Health with a full service lab and radiology open during clinic hours. We have recently expanded our hours of operation with clinic and ancillary services open until 7:00 pm.
Our facility is located in Lame Deer, a small community surrounded by pine covered hills. For the outdoor enthusiasts, there are numerous places to hike, mountain bike, or fish on the reservation. Custer National Forest is adjacent to the reservation for outdoor activities as well as hunting. Colstrip, a small community 20 minutes from the reservation has national recognition as an outstanding place to live and work. Billings, the largest city in Montana is less than 2 hours away and offers big city amenities. We take great pride in delivering compassionate care to our patients. Respecting that our Native patients still embrace their native culture allows for a better patient-provider relationship. When the new clinic was built, a Healing Room for traditional ceremonies was included in the plans. We have fully embraced the Electronic Health Record and are the test site/pioneers for many new initiatives. We are pro-active with an enthusiastic and dedicated administrative and clinical staff that continually seeks to improve the delivery of health care. We invite you to take a look at our facility and meet our staff at your earliest convenience.
George J. Ceremuga, DO Indian Health Service has provided health care at the Northern Cheyenne Reservation since 1955. Initially services were shared by both the Crow and Northern Cheyenne. In 1955, separate health care facilities were erected on the Crow Reservation for Crow people. In 1972 the Northern Cheyenne Service Unit was created as an independent entity to serve just the needs of the Cheyenne people. A building of over 60,000 square feet and a staff of over 120 now help serve those needs. The Northern Cheyenne Service Unit is accredited by Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC).
Mission StatementThe Northern Cheyenne Service Unit, in partnership with the Northern Cheyenne Community, strives to raise their physical, mental, social and spiritual health to the highest level using the principles of “the patient comes first” with a focus on health care and health promotion, in a culturally sensitive manner while empowering the individual.
Contact InformationLame Deer Health CenterP.O. Box 70 Lame Deer, Montana 59043 Main: (406) 477-4400 Fax: (406) 477-4427
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