1. OUIHP Update Jennifer Cooper Acting Director
Office of Urban Indian Health Programs
Indian Health Service

2. Office of Urban Indian Health Programs
Jennifer Cooper, Acting Director
Sherriann Moore, Deputy Director
Rick Mueller, Health System Specialist
Cynthia Perez, IT Specialist (RPMS), OIT/Office of Urban Indian Health Programs

3. Indian Health Care Improvement Act September 30, 1976
SEC (25 U.S.C. 1651) The purpose of this title is to establish programs in urban centers to make health services more accessible to urban Indians.
Authorized $10,000 in FY 1979

4. Urban Indian Health Programs Today
Urban Indian Health Program FY 2015 Budget: $43.6 million.
33 UIHPs provided services to 126,310 patients including 53,408 AI/AN.
UIHPs employ over 1,604 FTEs.
UIHPs performed 529,983 visits including medical, dental, behavioral health, other professional, and enabling services directly or by paid referral.

5. Transition: September 2014 - Today
4 Dear Urban leader Letter
3 In-person sessions with IHS Director & numerous Area sessions.
Confer Policy
FY 2015 $2.875 increase
Budget Increase
Evaluation of program data reporting and collecting
Data Reporting

6. Improved Data Reporting
IHS Urban Indian Health Program 40 Year Anniversary & beyond - What will the future hold?
Improved Data Reporting
Stronger Partnership ?

7. “In every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generation”
From the Great Law of the Iroquois Confederacy