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. 2022 Sep 13;13:953142. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2022.953142

TABLE 1.

Partner site descriptions.

Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT) Partnership Health Center (PHC) Shodair Children’s Hospital (Shodair)
General Descriptor: A network of healthcare clinics serving the CSKT based out of St. Ignatius, Montana. A federally-funded community health center located in Missoula, Montana. A pediatric psychiatric hospital located in Helena, Montana, also providing the state’s only comprehensive medical genetics services.
Services Offered: • Medical • Medical • Acute and residential psychiatric services
• Dental • Dental • Outpatient psychiatric care
• Pharmacy • Pharmacy • Medical genetics services
• Behavioral health • Behavioral health • CLIA certified diagnostic genetics laboratory
• Telehealth services • Telehealth services • Telehealth services
• Physical therapy • Newborn screening follow-up
• Optical
• Audiology and Speech
• Community Health
Primary Patient Populations: Tribal Health Clinics focus on providing high-quality care to recipients “grounded in Tribal values” for the CSKT PHC serves 15,000 patients in Missoula County Psychiatric services for children and adolescents throughout Montana
• 11,000 eligible recipients that include CSKT members and descendants • Approximately 52% of patients face economic insecurity • Approximately ∼4,000 patients served in 2020
• Provides care to members of other federally-recognized tribes who reside on the Flathead Reservatio • 29% of patients live at or below the federal poverty level • 70% children from families living at or near poverty
• 7% of patients served identify as homeless • 39% of admissions referred from rural areas
• 17% of patients are uninsured • 14.7% of admissions identified as American Indian
• Medical genetics program serves prenatal, pediatric, and adult populations