Authors: United States Senate

Publication Year: 2008

Last Updated: 2010-09-09

Journal: Congress.Gov

Keywords: Congressional Record, Senate Floor Statements, IHCIA, Indian Health Care Improvement Act

Abstract:

Congressional RecordSenate Floor Statements--January 22, 2008

…Alaska, in western Alaska, decided this is unacceptable, to have to pull everybody from the villages so far away. And they developed a village and a regional service structure to help the elders, to help the Alaska Native patients with chronic diseases to continue living in their homes or in their community rather than being sent hundreds of miles away to receive special nursing care.  It was their pilot program to take over all home and community-based care in their region, which resulted in a reduction in service waiting time for the disabled and the elders in the region and truly improved the patients' health status level. This legislation may enable other tribal programs around the country to also engage in home and community-based care which would allow Indian patients to remain in their homes rather than face a lengthy hospital stay or nursing home stay in a distant and, again, a strange location.

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