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September 7, 2022
New lawn brightens IHS Clinic
The grounds mainte-
nance team has just installed
new sod outside of the main
entrances at the War m
Springs Health and Wellness
Center. The upgrade gives a
fresh look to the facility that
has transfor med several
times over the two and a
half years of the pandemic.
Additionally, significant
expansion and renovation is
in store in the near future
for the clinic, as IHS is mod-
ernizing the facility to mee
the community needs. The
changes ahead will focuse on
patient-centered care.
Warm Springs IHS is a
primary care clinic that offers
medical, dental, optometry,
pharmacy, laboratory, radiol-
ogy and podiatry services.
Regarding the upcoming
renovation and expansion
project at the clinic:
The work will be a
phased series of capital im-
provements. One of the
long-term benefits will be the
Courtesy KWSO
New sod by one of the IHS Clinic front entrances.
consolidation of healthcare
departments into one build-
ing on site with sufficient ca-
pacity to serve the 10-year
projected user population.
The project has been
some years in the planning,
also having met with delay
during the pandemic.
The added space with the
expansion is intended to give
longer service life to the fa-
cility. The project reflects
the War m Springs Joint
Health Commission’s prefer-
ences as reflected in the
Tribal Council approved 10-
year master plan for the pro-
posed facility renovation and
expansion, according to an
IHS summary.
Phase 1 will be the Pri-
mary Care and Pharmacy
building expansion. This phase
also includes renovation of
the Lab, Imaging and specialty
Care areas.
Phase 2 will be the Dental
building expansion, including
renovation of Eye Care, Au-
diology, IT, and Property and
Supply. Phase 3: Rehabilita-
tion and expansion of the ad-
ministration area.
Alaska Native wins Congressional seat
Mary Peltola last week
won a special House election
in Alaska. She will finish the
remaining few months of the
term of Representative Don
Young, who died in March
after serving nearly 50 years
as his state’s lone congress-
man.
Ms. Peltola is an Alaska
Native. At 49, she is the first
Alaska Native to serve in
Congress, and the first woman
to hold the Alaska House
seat, albeit only tempo-
rarily—unless she wins a full
term in November.
Ms. Peltola has sought to
Mary Peltola
highlight her Native roots in
a state where more than 15
percent of the population
identifies as Indigenous.
As a Yup’ik woman, she
has sought to use the teach-
ings of her community in
her broader appeals for bi-
partisanship.
Ms. Peltola served in the
Alaska House from 1999 to
2009 before becoming the
executive director of the
Kuskokwim River Inter-
Tribal Fish Commission,
which works with tribes to
manage salmon resources.
She has also served as a
councilwoman in Bethel, a
small city in western Alaska,
and as a judge on the
Orutsararmuit Native Coun-
cil Tribal Court.
Pandemic shortened Native life expectancy
Over the past two and a
half years, during the covid
pandemic, average life ex-
pectancy for Native Ameri-
cans and Alaska Natives fell
by six and a half years—a
decline that left the research-
ers aghast. The comparable
figure for all Americans was
about three years, which it-
self a terrible milestone not
seen in nearly a century.
What could have left Na-
tive Americans and Alaska
Natives so vulnerable to the
pandemic? There is no
simple diagnosis, nor is there
an easy fix, experts say.
The suffering is inextrica-
bly bound to many decades
of poverty, poor infrastruc-
ture, crowded housing, bro-
ken government promises and
bigotry.
If researchers were sur-
prised by the findings, many
who live and work in Indig-
enous communities were
not. “There is nothing weird
or unusual about our popu-
lation,” said Dr. Ann Bullock,
a former director of diabe-
tes treatment and prevention
at the federal Indian Health
Services agency and a mem-
ber of the Minnesota
Chippewa Tribe.
“This is simply what hap-
pens biologically to popula-
tions that are chronically and
profoundly stressed and de-
prived of resources.”