Toiyabe Indian Health Project, Inc.

52 Tu-Su Lane

Bishop, CA 93514

WHILE PROMOTING GOOD HEALTH TO OTHERS, WE TRY TO BEGIN WITH OURSELVES

Toiyabe Indian Health Project is a family centered, tribal controlled program begun in 1970. Today we offer comprehensive serves to Paiute, Shoshone and Washoe people from seven federally recognized tribes and two Indian communities on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range. The Toiyabe Board of Directors is a coalition of tribal governments composed of two representatives from each reservation working together to improve our people's health.

Focusing on the well-being of the whole person and stressing disease prevention, we strive to blend the philosophy of traditional ways with appropriate technologies of western medicine. We are dedicated to the positive state of health of individuals, families and communities and to the preservation of our culture, race and tribal entities.

Training Indian people in the health field is one key way to improve the health of our people, both now and in the future. Consequently, career development is emphasized through monthly staff training programs, as well as attendance at appropriate training programs in other locations. The entire staff has received training in: health concepts and wellness promotion; nutrition; stress reduction; CPR; special needs of elders; the Indian Child Welfare Act; and other related topics.

The tribes and rancherias/reservations in the service area are:

• Utu Gwaitu Paiute Tribe of the Benton Paiute Reservation
• Paiute-Shoshone Indians of the Bishop Community of the Bishop Colony
• Bridgeport Paiute Indian Colony
• Ft. Independence Community of Paiute Indians, Ft. Independence Indian Reservation
• Big Pine Band of Owens Valley Paiute-Shoshone Indians, Big Pine Reservation
• Death Valley Timbi-Sha Shoshone Band
• Lone Pine Band of the Owens Valley Paiute-Shoshone Indians

The Project has expanded over the past several years. In 1978 the Camp Antelope clinic was developed with one CHR and one FNP. In 1979 the Lone Pine clinic was established. The main clinic in Bishop will be expanded and renovated to meet the increasing needs of the community and to keep up with community growth. The Main Clinic located in Bishop and the two satellite clinics---the Lone Pine Clinic, and the Camp Antelope Clinic, with over 100 employees combined, is the complete structure of the Toiyabe Indian Health Project, Inc.

The principal referral facility is the Northern Inyo Hospital in Bishop. It provides General Medicine & Surgery with 16 Medical/Surgical, 6 Perinatal, and 4 Pediatrics beds.

(Source: Indian Health Service, California Area Office 1994/95 Profile)

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