{"id":8928,"date":"2020-10-15T13:51:02","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T17:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/covid19\/?p=8928"},"modified":"2020-10-15T13:51:37","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T17:51:37","slug":"muscogee-creek-nation-oklahoma-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/2020\/10\/15\/muscogee-creek-nation-oklahoma-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Muscogee (Creek) Nation (Oklahoma)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8929\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8929\" class=\"wp-image-8929 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/amandawyatt.jpg\" alt=\"amandawyatt\" width=\"900\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/amandawyatt.jpg 900w, https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/amandawyatt-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/amandawyatt-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8929\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amanda Wyatt. Photo courtesy Muscogee (Creek) Nation<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Muscogee (Creek) citizen recognized for COVID-19 efforts<\/h2>\n<p><em>National Indian Health Board names <span class=\"il\">Wyatt<\/span> \u2018Hero in Health\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p>OKMULGEE, Oklahoma \u2014 The National Indian Health Board has recognized Muscogee (Creek) citizen, Lieutenant Commander <span class=\"il\">Amanda<\/span> <span class=\"il\">Wyatt<\/span>, as one of this year\u2019s \u2018Heroes in Health.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The NIHB annually honors outstanding individuals, programs and organizations from across Indian Country whose service and work make a major contribution to improving American Indian and Alaska Native health.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"il\">Wyatt<\/span> is an Advance Practice Nurse and Clinical Nurse Specialist who was selected for her leadership and contributions to the development of a COVID-19 emergency response hotline for the Muscogee (Creek) Nation Department of Health.<\/p>\n<p>She served as the sole point of contact for the hotline, providing real-time instruction and guidance on evidence-based practice recommendations, triage, consults, coordination of care, and community services directly related to the effects of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is with great respect as a Muscogee (Creek) citizen to receive this incredible honor from the National Indian Health Board,\u201d <span class=\"il\">Wyatt<\/span> said. \u201cI am grateful for my opportunities to serve Indian Country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"il\">Wyatt<\/span> has since transferred into a new position with Indian Health Service as the Director for the Diabetes Center at the Mid-Atlantic Tribal Health Center in Richmond, Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>MCN would like to congratulate and thank <span class=\"il\">Wyatt<\/span> for her service to all citizens within the Muscogee (Creek) Reservation and Indian Country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Indian Health Board has recognized Muscogee (Creek) citizen Amanda Wyatt as a Hero in Health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[734,46,59],"class_list":["post-8928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-organizations","category-tribes","tag-amanda-wyatt","tag-muscogee","tag-nihb"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8928"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8932,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8928\/revisions\/8932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}