Numerous service and staffing cuts at IHS facilities nationally have been caused by a new HHS contract review process, ...

Some employees of the Indian Health Service say a federal government efficiency effort is having the opposite effect.

WASHINGTON — Newly installed Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. verbally rescinded the layoffs of 950 Indian Health Service employees Friday evening, just hours after the workers were ...

The Indian Health Service, part of the Department of Health and Human Services, serves about 2.6 million Native Americans and Alaska Natives. Native Americans qualify for the referred-care program ...

The Department of Health and Human Services, which IHS is part of, agreed with those recommendations. The watchdog noted “longstanding questions about patient care quality and safety at federally ...

The Indian Health Service is a federal agency that provides free health care to Native Americans, but its services are limited by a chronic shortage of funding and staff. Hawley’s local IHS ...

Indian Health Services, an agency within the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services responsible for providing federal health services to American Indians and Alaska natives, faced a committee ...

As drug abuse ravages America’s Native communities, the Indian Health Service (IHS) faces its own calamities — facilities in such bad shape that patient health is threatened. Two recent Senate ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he is committed to improving the Indian Health Service. Native American leaders have doubts. “It’s shameful,” one said.