Indigenous Healthcare Advancements

Well, we have arrived at the finish line! One final milestone for Three Rivers Health Center, our Community Go-Live set for July 1, 2024 is all that stands in our way of our project completion! Huge shout out to our partners and our team for making this Tribe’s dream a reality! This is why we do what we do! Enjoy your new health system, CTCLUSI! https://lnkd.in/ggrK9J8r

Our Grand Opening Celebration on Saturday, June 1 was absolutely wonderful, with great community engagement. We'll have a full recap coming soon. In the meantime, check out the reveal video we unveiled during the opening ceremony! #TRHCGrandOpening Learn more about Three Rivers Health Center at: https://threerivers.health Appreciations to Ryan Ceurvorst and Rodel Estioco of Rodel Studios for producing it for us. https://lnkd.in/gHiCckUg

Well we did it! On Saturday, June 1st, 2024 the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, & Siuslaw Indians cut the ribbon on their brand new Three Rivers Health Center! 27 months of work, beginning to end; 23 consultants and/or partners; 32 new staff; 4 new service lines; 1 amazing health center! I had friends, colleagues, and relatives in town from all over the world, to celebrate with us literally! British Columbia, Canada Philippines Pine Ridge Reservation, SD Cheyenne River Reservation, SD Lower Brule Reservation, SD Oregon Washington California Texas Tennessee Idaho I am so pleased with how this project turned out. We are already planning for the next two! Congrats to the CTCLUSI Tribal Membership and the Coos Bay / North Bend community. You have something very special on your hands! Special shout out to Ryan Ceurvorst for letting me hijack his photo, I didn’t have much time to take my own with everything going on, if you can imagine that?

Come join us Saturday at our grand opening celebration!

In less than a week the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, & Siuslaw Indians located in Coos Bay, Oregon will be cutting the ribbon of their new Three Rivers Health Center! Please join us in person or in spirit as we officially open our doors to our community. We are currently in our “Tribal Go Live” period, seeing the local America Indian and Alaska Native community members. On June 1st, our non-AIAN community (non-Tribal) members will be able to fill out New Patient paperwork and will be able to schedule appointments from July 1st onward. On June 1st any patient will be able to use our Pharmacy. If you would like more information about our providers or our services you are encouraged to check out our revised website at www.ThreeRivers.Health. We look forward to serving you!

Yesterday afternoon the Three Rivers Health Center and Pharmacy team came together with CTCLUSI Chief and Tribal Council to smudge the building and the land prior to our Tribal patient Go-Live next week on Monday, 5/20. For many of the team members this was their introduction to just one of the amazing aspects of working for a Tribal enterprise and for our Tribal people. It was also the first time a few of our Tribal Council members had seen the finished product that is their new health center. We are ready to open the doors to our people starting Monday! For those of you tracking that is 27 months total from first thought, to reality. Included in that was a few minor delays, but in the grand scheme of things, this project came together beautifully. If you are a CTCLUSI Tribal Member and you would like an appointment you are encouraged to call us at 541-435-7200. We are still putting the finishing touches on our call center, so we apologize if the phones are a little busier than normal. We plan to have this ironed out in the next month or so. Visit us at www.threerivers.health for more information.

It’s official! Three Rivers Health Center is finally opening! Monday, May 20th, 2024 our Behavioral Health and Medical departments will be opening to our Tribal Members! Also opening on May 20th, 2024 will be our full service in-house Pharmacy! Our Pharmacy will be available to all from the start Tribal Members and non-Tribal Members alike! Monday July 1st, 2024 we will be completely open to the public. Tribal Member, non-Tribal Member, Insured, and non-insured. We will be open to everyone beginning this date! Our standard clinic hours will be Monday - Friday 7:00a - 6:00p and on Saturdays from 7:00a - 12:00p. We will be having a Grand Opening event on Saturday, June 1st 2024 from 10:30a - 2:00p at our new clinic location at 150 S. Wall St. Coos Bay, OR 97420! Please join us! Keep an eye on our website located at https://lnkd.in/gEKdbnCz for the most up to date info!

Today I would like to recognize Morgan Gaines, CTCLUSI Tribal Member and the brain behind the Three Rivers Health Center logo, the cultural photos that really pull the clinic together, and now the entry mural that everyone will see as they enter and exit the facility. I was fortunate enough to witness the progression of her mural this week, start to finish, and today she added the final component, her signature. Morgan’s value isn’t confined to her artistry, as she was also kind enough to address our TRHC leadership and our clinical teams to help us all understand CTCLUSI symbolism, traditon, and culture. We can’t thank you enough Morgan! Your mural and photos are beautiful!

Today is a special day! Three Rivers Health Center’s first patient encounter has happened! What is really special is that just over two years ago our first patient was the CTCLUSI Tribal Council Chair who’s last action in that position was to sign the resolution for this project to begin! Today, Debbie Bossley is back on Council, serving as the Position 6 delegate and seeing that signature come full circle! I am so proud to have been a part of bringing healthcare to this Tribal Community, who up until today was entirely reliant upon others for their care. This is a very special moment to witness!