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, and Texas. The Nashville Area Office has expanded from six employees to a present staff of nearly 75.
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 three urban Indian groups. More than 77 percent of the Nashville Area's annual health services budget is contracted to tribal organizations.