Indian Health Care Resource Center of Tulsa, Inc.,
(IHCRC), is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, comprehensive health care facility, governed by a local Board of Directors. The Board is responsible to the Tulsa American Indian community which it serves and is dedicated to the IHCRC motto: Caring is Strong Medicine.
The overall goal of IHCRC is to promote good health and well being for Indian people by providing access to quality, comprehensive health care. IHCRC provides medical, dental, optometry, behavioral health, chemical dependency, HIV/AIDS and pharmacy services directly to the Tulsa Indian community. Quality health care is provided on a sliding scale fee, ability to pay, basis.
Members of any federally recognized tribe and their dependents are eligible to receive care. No one is refused services due to inability to pay. IHCRC serves as a community center for Tulsa American Indians. Comprehensive care is their approach. Family treatment is the model, with appropriate consideration of each person's culture, social background, economic status and individualized needs.
Since their founding in 1976, Indian Health Care Resource Center of Tulsa has experienced tremendous growth. In 1999, Indian Health Care celebrated their long awaited move to a new facility. Located east of downtown Tulsa, the construction of the new building at 6th and Peoria relieved major space shortages that they struggled with at their former clinic.
The urban Indian clinic services members of more that 150 federally recognized tribes. According to the new Census 2000 figures, metro Tulsa has an American Indian
population of 86,118 (individuals reporting as Indian or multi-race Indian) or 10.7 percent of the MSA's total population of
803,235. |
