Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board: Indian Leadership for Indian Health

July 2012 eMailout

Week 1

MEMORANDUM

DATE: July 6, 2011

TO: NPAIHB Delegates, Tribal Health Directors and Tribal Chairs

FROM: Joe Finkbonner, RPh, MHA, Executive Director

RE: WEEKLY MAILOUT

Attn: Delegates & Tribal Health Directors

Employment Opportunities

Week 2

MEMORANDUM

DATE: July 13, 2011

TO: NPAIHB Delegates, Tribal Health Directors and Tribal Chairs

FROM: Joe Finkbonner, RPh, MHA, Executive Director

RE: WEEKLY MAILOUT

Letter from Dr. Yvette Roubideaux, I.H.S. Director RE: Requesting your input on how to improve the Indian Health Services health care facilities construction process

Upcoming tribal consultation session to discuss the Affordable Care Act (July 26 in Washington, DC). The Exchange Blueprint Guidance & Education session on the Medicaid expansion

I.H.S. Consultation on Health Care Facility Construction Issues

Letter from the National Indian Health Board to the Honorable John Boehner, Speaker of the House RE: Importance of Preserving the Protections and Benefits of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act


Self-Governance Meetings Save the Dates, October 2012 Quarterly Meetings of the DOI Self-Governance Advisory Committee IHS Tribal Self-Governance Advisory Committee in Washington, DC and the 2012 Tribal Self-Governance Strategy Session, November 27-28, 2012 in Uncasville, CT

Attn: Delegates & Tribal Health Directors

Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Training, September 24-28, 2012 at NPAIHB office in Portland, OR

Community Transformation Grant announcement

Employment Opportunities

NPAIHB Grants Specialist

Week 3

MEMORANDUM

DATE: July 20, 2011

TO: NPAIHB Delegates, Tribal Health Directors and Tribal Chairs

FROM: Joe Finkbonner, RPh, MHA, Executive Director

RE: WEEKLY MAILOUT


Attn: Delegates & Tribal Health Directors

Attn: Washington (WA) Delegates, Tribal Chair & Tribal Health Directors

Week 4

MEMORANDUM

DATE: July 27, 2011

TO: NPAIHB Delegates, Tribal Health Directors and Tribal Chairs

FROM: Joe Finkbonner, RPh, MHA, Executive Director

RE: WEEKLY MAILOUT

National Indian Health Board- Supercommittee Failure, Sequestration, and Indian Health Service (IHS) Appropriations

Agency update response to the 2010 Senate Committee on Indian Affairs (SCIA) Investigation of the IHS Aberdeen Area

Direct Service Tribes 9th Annual National Meeting, August 14-16, 2012 in Tucson, AZ

2012 Public Health Law Conference: Practical Approaches to Critical Challenges, October 10-12, 2012 in Atlanta, GA

Hobbs Straus Dean & Walker GM 12-088: IHS Cooperative Agreements for Community Based Model of Public Health Nursing Case Management Services

Hobbs Straus Dean & Walker GM 12-089: Congress Passes the HEARTH Act- Will authorize tribes to lease trust lands without Secretarial approval

Hobbs Straus Dean & Walker GM 12-090: Eighth Circuit bankruptcy panel affirms tribal sovereign immunity in bankruptcy suit

Attn: Delegates & Tribal Health Directors

Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Training, September 24-28, 2012 at NPAIHB office in Portland

Attn: Oregon (OR) Delegates, Tribal Chair & Tribal Health Directors

Oregon Health Authority Tribal Consultation Meeting, August 8, 2012 in Salem, OR

Attn: Idaho (ID) Delegates & Tribal Health Directors

Idaho Medicaid’s State Plan Amendment (SPA) Tribal notice health care acquired condition

Upcoming Cultural Events

Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians Annual Illahee Pow Wow, August 10-12, 2012 in Siletz, OR (royal pageant on August 9th)

NPAIHB 7th Annual Dancing in the Square Pow Wow, September 28, 2012 in Portland, OR