Victoria Kitcheyan, President of the National Indian Health Board, opens the 10th Annual National Tribal Public Health Summit in Albuquerque, New Mexico. #NIHB #TPHS2019 #healthytribalcommunities #IndianCountry #ThisisTribalPublicHealth #Nativehealth @NIHB1 pic.twitter.com/tWd0uPZdEp
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“We haven’t done right by your people,” US Surgeon General Jerome Adams @JeromeAdamsMD tells the 10th annual National Tribal Public Health Summit in Albuquerque, New Mexico. @NIHB1 #NIHB #TPHS2019 #healthytribalcommunities #IndianCountry #ThisisTribalPublicHealth #NativeHealth pic.twitter.com/gaTjtDa6gE
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Surgeon General Jerome Adams @JeromeAdamsMD thanks National Indian Health Board for supporting his wife as she underwent cancer treatment. “She is cancer free,” Adams announced at the 10th annual National Tribal Public Health Summit in Albuquerque, New Mexico. #TPHS2019 @NIHB1 pic.twitter.com/VvXGZREPb1
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“My mother was the last full blooded Eyak. When she passed away in 2008, we lost our language. I couldn’t do this two years ago, introducing myself in our Native language,” William Smith tells 10th annual National Tribal Public Health Summit in Albuquerque, New Mexico. #TPHS2019 pic.twitter.com/9mThtd1cVx
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Rep. Deb Haaland (D-New Mexico) couldn’t be at the 10th annual National Tribal Public Health Summit in her own Congressional district in Albuquerque, New Mexico, because she was called to Capitol Hill. A video message highlighted some priorities in 116th Congress. @RepDebHaaland pic.twitter.com/ANjMsjPTnB
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* H.R.1135, the Indian Health Service Advance Appropriations Act. The bill provides advance appropriations to the Indian Health Service, protecting the agency from government shutdowns.https://t.co/ga0RKfnHRW
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* H.R.2860, a bill to reauthorize the Special Diabetes Program for Indians for five years and increase funding from $150 million a year to to $200 million a year. #SDPI is due to expire at end of September 2019.https://t.co/RevvEqvPwz
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A new bill, set to be introduced on Tuesday, called the VA Tribal Advisory Committee Act. The bill would improve the Department of Veteran Affairs' outreach, health care and benefits for Native Americans.
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“Essentially third world conditions”: Dr. Donald Warne, Oglala Sioux, discusses adverse childhood experiences at 10th annual National Tribal Public Health Summit in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Study shows high rates of childhood trauma seen among Natives in South Dakota. #TPHS2019 pic.twitter.com/wGB1rTHfTN
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“Our people are dying from opioid overdose,” Vickie Bradley, Secretary of Health and Human Services for Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, said at 10th annual National Tribal Public Health Summit in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Tribe started syringe service to help address problem. pic.twitter.com/bn2NcGYRTb
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“We had a hep C cluster in one of our villages,” Clinton Alexander of White Earth Nation said at 10th annual National Tribal Public Health Summit in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The tribe started a syringe exchange to help address the problem. “Our tribe got behind this.” #TPHS2019 pic.twitter.com/bAbn0EfSzh
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BIG message being shared at 10th annual National Tribal Public Health Summit in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is #Naloxone in tribal communities. Everyone from tribal officials to health professionals to US Surgeon General said medication will save lives by reversing opioid overdose. pic.twitter.com/QAFQjQ1J8d
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Here is an advisory and a postcard from US Surgeon General Jerome Adams on Opioid Overdose Prevention, calling on more Americans to carry #Naloxone, a lifesaving medication that can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. https://t.co/7bOOlGvBuB pic.twitter.com/FUkkySyYzS
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Michael Weahkee, the Principal Deputy Director of Indian Health Service, is being challenged to address issue on many minds at the 10th annual National Tribal Public Health Summit in Albuquerque, New Mexico. “What is the priority on keeping our children safe?” attendee asks. pic.twitter.com/7FJ2PHPaXD
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"Not once have I heard a public apology," said attendee, who said she was former Indian Health Service employee, citing case of Stanley Patrick Weber, IHS "predator" who was convicted of abusing young male patients on one reservation and awaits trial on similar charges on second.
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"We can't say enough how tragic this is for those young men, their families,“ said Michael Weahkee, who is highest ranking official at Indian Health Service. He said a contract has been awarded to help IHS improve policies to protect patients from abuse at IHS facilities.
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For some, response so far hasn't been enough. “We need to initiate actions now on protection,” attendee from Alaska told Michael Weahkee, principal deputy director at Indian Health Service. Stanley Patrick Weber stayed employed at IHS for decades despite questions about behavior.
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In prior public engagements, including testimony in Congress, Michael Weahkee of Indian Health Service has brought up case of Stanley Patrick Weber, the "predator" pediatrician. For whatever reason he did not talk about controversy at @NIHB1 summit until he was asked about it.
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An update on the contract awarded to "conduct a medical quality assurance review to examine whether laws, policies and procedures have been followed with regard to protecting patients from sexual abuse" at the Indian Health Service.https://t.co/sz9zAt8AOv
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