The Nashville Area IHS Office in Nashville, Tennessee, oversees health care services to approximately 44,556 Indian people in the Southern and Eastern United States, including Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Florida, New York, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Maine, Texas, and Arkansas. The Nashville Area Office has expanded from 6 employees to a present staff of nearly 80. For most Indians within the Nashville Area, the IHS is the only available source of health care, although they are entitled to participate in the full range of programs open to them as residents of counties, States, and local communities.
Health care delivered in the Nashville Area offers a diversity of options.
The Cherokee Hospital, located in North Carolina, is the only IHS operated Service Unit in the area. The Nashville Area Office has contracts with 18 tribes and 3 urban Indian groups. More than 77 percent of the Nashville Area's annual health services budget is contracted to tribal organizations. For an extended look at the Nashville Area IHS Office and the Tribes it serves, click here.