NCAIHP tours new Native Health facility in Phoenix
Posted: January 16, 2014
The National Center for American Indian Health Professions’ (NCAIHP), Nathan Lefthand, project coordinator, and Ansen Blair, PA ’14, recently toured the new Native Health facility in central Phoenix, Ariz. Walter Murillo, chief executive officer of Native Health, provided an overview of Native Health and discussed with them Native Health as a payback/service obligation facility for the Indian Health Services (IHS) Health Professions Scholarship Program.
The IHS Health Professions Scholarship Program recipients incur a service obligation of one year of service to IHS or urban American Indian organization assisted under Title V of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act for each year of scholarship support received (or the part-time equivalent) with a minimum service period of two years.
Native Health provides holistic, patient-centered, and culturally-sensitive health and wellness services.