SILETZ NEWS
Delores Pigsley,
Tribal Chairman
Brenda Bremner,
General Manager
and Editor-in-Chief
Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians
Vol. 45, No. 2
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Siletz News
Confederated Tribes of
Siletz Indians
P.O. Box 549
Siletz, OR 97380-0549
February 2017
Patient Centered Medical Home is new focus of providers at Siletz Clinic
Have you noticed we have new staff
and changes in our clinic?
We are moving forward with an
improved and expanded type of care
for our patients called Patient Centered
Medical Home. A medical home is a clinic
where a “team” of health professionals
works together to meet each patient’s
physical and mental health care needs,
including prevention and wellness, acute
care and chronic care.
Most importantly, Medical Home is
about you. The Medical Home model
is personal and the team’s job is to make
sure you get the health care you need
and deserve.
Having a medical home feels like
having an old-style family doctor, but
with a team of professionals using modern
knowledge and technology to provide the
best possible care for each of our patients.
Who is part of the Medical Home
Care Team?
Providing comprehensive medical
care requires a team of care providers.
This team might include physicians, nurse
practitioners, physician assistants, nurses,
medical assistants, pharmacists, social
workers, educators and counselors.
These team members are like having
“health coaches” who help you get healthy,
stay healthy and get the care and services
that are right for you.
When you leave the clinic, you leave
with a clear idea of what direction your
health care is going and a clear idea of
how to care for yourself.
What can you do as part of your
medical team?
Courtesy image
Your family is also part of the team
and you are the most important member!
Who is on your team?
Each of our patients will have a pri-
mary care provider (PCP). If you have
been seeing one of our medical providers
on a steady basis, this is the provider with
whom you will be empaneled.
Empanelment is the act of assigning
individual patients to individual PCPs
and care teams with sensitivity to patient
and family preference. Your care team is
who you will go to with questions about
your care.
Your care team will get to know you,
your family, your life situation and prefer-
ences. They will remember these details
and suggest treatments that make sense for
you. They will treat you as a full partner
in your care.
Your care team will communicate
with you, give you time to ask questions
and make sure you understand all of your
options for care. They will help you decide
what care is best for you by utilizing
evidenced-based medicine. This optimizes
medical decision-making by emphasizing
the use of evidence from well-designed
and well-conducted research.
Know that you are a full partner in
your own care. Always bring a list of your
medicines, vitamins and remedies you use.
Keep us updated when you have a change
in phone number, address or insurance.
Always tell your medical home team
when you don’t understand something they
said. Ask them to explain it in a different
way. Always talk openly with your care team.
We are all so excited about this new
venture into improved care and commu-
nication between you, our patients, and
your medical care team. You will see the
same provider for all your health care
needs, including when you are ill. If your
PCP is not available, you will see his/her
partner care team.
What if I want to change my
provider?
The goal of Medical Home is to work
together. Continuity of care is a vital part
of Patient Centered Medical Home. Evi-
dence shows that jumping back and forth
See Clinic on page 4
New apps focus on
indigenous films via
NativeFlix
Courtesy photo by April Middaugh
Participants in the Candidates Fair on Jan. 14 at Chinook Winds Casino Resort include (from left) Loraine Butler, Gloria
Ingle, Robert Kentta, Kent Rilatos and Selene Rilatos. Not pictured: Wayne Johnson and Heather Walker.
All ballots for the 2017 Siletz Tribal Council election must be received by 4 p.m. on Feb. 4.
You can vote in person on Feb. 4 at the Tribal Community Center in Siletz, Ore., from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. – Amerind
Media Group, Inc. (AMG) recently
announced it that its streaming video ser-
vice called NativeFlix is now available on
iOS, AppleTV, Android and Roku.
Viewers now can watch content about
American Indians and other indigenous
people from around the world directly on
their mobile device or via television using
Chromecast or AppleTV.
NativeFlix, first offered in 2015, now
offering additional programming genres
– drama, comedy, culture, animation and
music. Having doubled its content library,
AMG also offers new and original program-
ming available exclusively on NativeFlix.
Much of its collection is in full HD.
The company operates similar to a
cooperative in that it gives a majority of its
revenue to the content owners who license
content for the NativeFlix service.
Before co-founding AMG, CEO Tim
Harjo served as the chief content officer
at First Nations Experience, the country’s
first television station broadcasting indig-
enous content.
AMG is a Native-owned and -oper-
ated media company based in Hollywood
that opened on the Internet in April 2015
at nativeflix.com.