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Links Of Interest 
- Healthcare needs grow, money doesn’t
- Haffner Native Women’s Health Award
- Teaching ob/gyn care for American Indians
- Committee provides consultation to AI/AN hospitals
- Two Fellows honored for decades of serving Native American women
- US OB/GYNs helping to create residency program in Kabul
- William Haffner MD receives ACOG award
- ACOG cervical cancer screening recommendations
- Week calls attention to plight of uninsured
- Project focuses on VBAC
- Preparing for emergency cesarean
Healthcare Needs Grow, Money Doesn’t
For American Indians, healthcare needs grow, money doesn’t
IHS funding has not kept pace with either medical costs or the growth of the population it serves. Per capita spending is less than half that of Medicaid and 36% that of the total US population. The gap has widened every year.
“From day to day we have to do ‘work arounds’ to find ways to meet the challenges,” according to Fellow Neil J. Murphy, MD, the former IHS chief clinical consultant for ob-gyn services, who practices at the Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage.
Progress has been made (PDF - 443K)
Admitting that he prefers to look at the glass as half full, Fellow William H.J. Haffner, MD, points to the tremendous progress that has been made in health care among American Indians since the 1970s.
"Deliveries are safer. Newborns are born healthier." . . .
Haffner Native Women’s Health Award
The ACOG Committee on American Indian Affairs is raising money for a new award that would recognize an individual who has made a major contribution to improving the health care of American Indians/Alaska Natives.
The William H.J. Haffner American Indian/Alaska Native Women’s
Health Award (WORD - 32k) is named after ACOG Fellow Dr. Haffner, an ob-gyn
professor at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda,
MD. Dr. Haffner worked for the federal Indian Health Service for many years and
has been involved with ACOG’s Indian health programs since their inception.
To donate to the Haffner Award Fund, please make checks out to "ACOG" and mail to Yvonne Malloy, ACOG, 409 12th St. SW, Washington, DC 20024
For more information on the award or other Indian health programs: ymalloy@acog.org; 800-673-8444, ext 2580; or visit the ACOG website, www.acog.org; under "Women’s Issues," click on "Indian Health Service"
Teaching ob-gyn care for American Indians
ACOG / IHS Course is primer and an excellent update in health care for women for primary care providers, nurses, and other staff
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