'Where you can legally kill an Indian': Winnebago Treasurer on IHS Hospitals

People are dying.

That’s the message tribal leaders took to Congress one more time as a House subcommittee heard testimony on proposed legislation to improve the Indian Health Service.

Babies born on bathroom floors, stolen narcotics, surgical instruments washed by hand, nurses who cannot operate a crash cart or start a dopamine drip, unlicensed medical personnel, funds unaccounted for—the list of egregious violations of the Hippocratic oath, not to mention the law, at IHS facilities is long.

Some of these complaints go back to the 2010 Senate report on conditions at Aberdeen (now Great Plains) Area IHS hospitals, “In Critical Condition,” but many were documented well before that. And they continue, leading to the closure of the Rosebud Hospital emergency department in December after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) determined that conditions were so bad that they would no longer reimburse for services provided there.

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