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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
IHS outlines clinic expansion plan
The Warm Springs Indian
Health Service clinic opened
25 years ago. Since that time,
as the tribes have grown, the
number of patients and other
users, and the number of
employees at the clinic have
also grown.
The Warm Springs Joint
Health Commission—the
health care partnership be-
tween the tribes and IHS—
is developing a plan for the
first major expansion of the
clinic.
Two years ago the Joint
Health Commission created
the clinic Modernization
Committee, including IHS
employees, other community
members, and the War m
Springs Health and Human
Services.
The committee developed
three options for expansion
of the clinic. The options
were the Consolidated Cam-
pus option, the Two Campus
Option, and the Re-Use Ex-
isting Option.
After weighing the pros
and cons of each option, the
parties concluded the Con-
solidated Campus Option
would be the best. The com-
mittee, IHS and Health and
D.McMechan/Spilyay
Area on the clinic campus identified for the new administrative services building.
Health and Human Services
last week presented the op-
tions, and the recommended
option to Tribal Council.
The Consolidated Cam-
pus option involves the con-
struction of two new clinic
wings, built off each end of
the existing clinic. There will
also be a new administration
building, and a new facility
management building, both
on the clinic campus.
The new administration
building would be across the
parking lot from the clinic,
and the new facility manage-
ment building would be near
Aspirations profiles
The Warm Springs summer youth workers are now
back at school. In this Spilyay are some final
Youth Worker Profiles from the 2018 Native
Aspirations season (see pages 4 and 6).
Gerald
Tufti text
& photos
the new west wing expan-
sion.
The Primary Care ser-
vices will be housed in one
of the new wings. Some
other positive points include:
All services are located on
one campus. The priorities
of Primary Care, Pharmacy,
Dental and Rehabilitation
services all can be imple-
mented in the first phase of
project.
The direct patient admin-
istrative services will remain
in the Health and Wellness
building, while the rest of the
administrative staff would
be in the separate adminis-
tration building.
The cost of the work will
be clear when more detailed
architectural and engineering
plans are developed, said
Yvonne Iverson, IHS budget
analyst at the clinic.
The clinic already has $4
million for the project, and is
expecting to have closer to $7
million by the end of the fis-
cal year. The building fund
is generated by billing of pa-
tients, such as to the Oregon
Health Plan, and by a new
reimbursement formula at
the clinic Pharmacy.
If all goes as planned, con-
struction could begin in 2020.
Community notes...
A new free legal clinic
will be taking intakes on Oc-
tober 8 at the Warm Springs
Community Action Team
Office. They will be taking
intakes from 10 a.m. to 3
p.m.
Eligible clients will receive
a free 45-60 minute consul-
tation with an attorney to dis-
cuss any legal issues.
To find out if you qualify
call Rayven at 971-703-7108.
The clinic is being provided
by Karnopp Petersen LLP
and Legal Aid Services of
Oregon.
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Law Enforcement from Port-
land on Thursday and Friday,
September 20-21 plans to
visit War m Springs to
tour the jail. The Warm
Springs Jail and dispatch
building is BIA property, op-
erated by the tribes through
the Public Safety Branch.
Condition of the Warm
Springs Jail has been an is-
sue with the tribes for years.
The facility was built in 1985
with a projected useful life of
25 years. Tribal officials
have suggested a new jail and
tribal justice center as an op-
tion.
Bend Film will show films
at the Madras Performing
Arts Center in October.
This is part of the Fif-
teenth Annual Bend Film Fes-
tival. Tickets are $5. The
filmmakers will be present
for each film.
And special guests will be
attending: The only two-time
Sundance Film Festival Win-
ner Ondi Timoner, and ac-
tor Adam Beach. The dates
are October 12-14.
September 12, 2018
Elections:
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Individuals who do not
meet the automatic one-
quarter blood quantum re-
quirement may get en-
rolled through the adop-
tion process. To be eligible
for adoption, individuals
must have one-eighth In-
dian blood, descend from
a current or former tribal
member, meet the resi-
dency requirement, not be
enrolled in another tribe,
and receive the majority
of the vote in an adoption
referendum.
Tribal Council added
the baseline census year
concept for automatic en-
rollment purposes in 1975.
Adding the census
baseline meant that all ap-
plicants for enrollment
would have blood quan-
tum determined by exam-
ining the parent/grandpar-
ent whose name appears
on the 1940 census.
For those on the 1940
census list, all their Indian
blood would be consid-
ered Confederated Tribes
blood for the purposes of
enrollment.
Tribal Council later
added the 1960 baseline
for enrollment purposes in
2008.
3 in 2019
For example, consider
the child of a biological
tribal member parent
born in 1958 who was
one-quarter
War m
Springs, one-quarter Na-
vajo,
one-quarter
Choctaw and one-quarter
white, and whose name
appears on the 1960 cen-
sus.
Using only the 1940
census as the baseline, the
child would only be one-
eighth Confederated
Tribes blood, and not eli-
gible for automatic enroll-
ment.
However, using the
1960 census as the
baseline, the tribal mem-
ber parent has a total of
three-quarter Indian
blood, all of which would
be considered Confeder-
ated Tribes blood. Thus,
the child could be auto-
matically enrolled as hav-
ing one-quarter or more
Confederated Tribes
blood.
The February 2019
referendum will ask tribal
voters to add the 1980
census to the list of
baseline census years for
determining Confeder-
ated Tribes blood quan-
tum.