Klamath Tribes
Klamath Tribal Health and Family Services
3949 S. 6th St.
Klamath Falls, OR 97603
Phone: 800-552-6290
Fax: 541-882-1670
Klamath Tribal Medical Clinic
Tribal Pharmacy
Tribal Dental Clinic
330 Chiloquin Blvd.
Chiloquin, OR 97624
Phone: 800-246-7894
Webpage: http://www.klamathtribes.org
About the Clinic
Facilities/Services Planning
MISSION
To promote and facilitate engineering planning and construction support for the IHS national facilities program by developing and enhancing relationships among Tribes, area offices, and Service Unit engineers and related professionals dealing in building health care systems.
Attainment of the IHS and DHHS missions
The DFPC mission is achieved by:
* Maintaining a priority list based on relative need.
* Supporting tribes when they choose to assume facilities-related responsibilities.
* Planning health care and associated facilities to minimize facility life-cycle costs.
* Planning, promoting, & constructing improvements to exist. Facilities where they are not optimally functional.
* Planning & constructing new facilities when existing facilities do not exist or cannot be effectively improved.
* Developing state-of-the-art facilities with efficient and effective facilities planning.
* Targeting the unmet need with limited resources for maximum effectiveness.
DFPC Vision
To be a Global Health Care Facilities Engineering Division leading cutting edge professionalism in support of Public Health advances and development of solutions to the Indian Health Service challenges.
Location
The Klamath Tribal Health and Family Services Administration building is an 11,000 square foot facility which is located in Klamath Falls, OR, just 26 miles from the tribal center in Chiloquin, OR. The facility houses a pharmacy, mental health, drug & alcohol, CHR’s, and public health nurses. There is a 1,600 square foot dental clinic located in Chiloquin, Oregon which houses a dentist and four staff. 
Also located in Chiloquin is a 1,600 square foot Tribal Medical Clinic staffed by a physician. Health care providers include: one dentist, one physician, one clinical pharmacist, one clinical psychologist, one psychiatric nurse practitioner, one youth counselor, one alcohol counselor, and two registered nurses. A significant portion of the Klamath health care budget goes to contract services with local providers. Klamath Tribal Health & Family Services provides health services under a P.L. 93-638 contract with the Indian Health Service. Programs include: Public Health Nursing, Community Health Representatives, Health Education, Nutrition, Mental Health, Youth Prevention, Social Work, Alcohol Counseling, Youth Aftercare, Pharmacy, and Dental. Contract Health Service and direct eligible patient count is 2,767 and the active user count is 2,279. The total patient population is 3,599. The pharmacy currently averages approximately 100 prescriptions per day. The Health Clinic opened on May 5, 1997, and has had 769 clinic visits to date. The Klamath Tribes have no designated housing area. The tribal population is scattered throughout Klamath County. The Tribal Housing Program provides assistance through the Mutual Help Program to tribal members. The distance to health facilities can be anywhere from a couple up to 100 miles.
About the Tribe
History
The Klamath Tribes consists of three tribes: the Klamath, Modoc, and Yahooskin Bands of Snake Indians. The Tribes claimed the east slopes of the Cascades and the adjoining desert areas from the Deschutes River headwaters in the north to Mount Shasta in California to the south. Tribal lifestyle was hunting & gathering. The Klamath people were placed on a 1.1 million acre reservation in the 1860’s; encroachments later led to the infamous “Modoc War” of 1873. The Klamath were subsequently terminated in 1954 by the US Government. After many years of persistent lobbying, tribal leaders were finally able to have this termination revoked through passage of PL 99-398, the Klamath Indian Tribe Restoration Act, in August 1986. The population is distributed as follows: approximately 38% in the Chiloquin area, 11% in Beatty and 51% in the Klamath Falls Area.
About the Area
Geography
City: Klamath Falls - population 17,430. Elevation 4,105. Incorporated 1893. City: Chiloquin, population 900. County: Klamath - population 70,000. Rainfall 14.3 inches annually. Average temperatures 29.8 - 78. County: Per capita income (1986) $11,305. True cash value averages $442 an acre. 6,135 square miles. Principal industries: Agriculture, Tourism, Recreation, and Manufacturing.
Other Information
Members
3,175.
Other Offices and Programs
Organization for the Forgotten American, 4509 South 6th Street, Klamath Falls, OR 97603; Klamath Alcohol and Drug Abuse, 310 South 5th, Klamath Falls, OR 97601. These both serve Klamath Indians but are not tribally operated.
Total Tribal Employees
Tribal Administration: ? full-time employees, Tribal Health: 70 full-time employees.
Housing
Housing for providers can be found in the city of Klamath Falls.
