Tribes in Alaska are working together to provide health care for people in remote and occasionally unreachable areas of the state.
The
Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation represents 58 tribes. The tribes pooled their self-determination funds in order to finance a hospital, regional clinics and other programs that serve 28,000 people in a region the size of Oregon.
YKHC negotiates self-determination contracts with the
Indian Health Service on behalf of the tribes.
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Health Care Is Spread Thin on Alaskan Frontier
(The New York Times 5/29)
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