Greetings from the ABERDEEN AREA of the Indian Health Service
 
Aberdeen Area
Indian Health Service
115 4th Avenue SE, Room 309
Aberdeen, SD 57401
The Aberdeen Area Office in Aberdeen, South Dakota, works in conjunction with its 19 Indian Health Service Units and Tribal managed Service Units to provide health care to approximately 122,000 Native Americans located in North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Iowa. The Area Office's service units include seven hospitals, eight health centers, and several smaller health stations and satellite clinics.
Each facility incorporates a comprehensive health care delivery system. The hospitals, health centers, and satellite clinics provide inpatient and outpatient care and conduct preventive and curative clinics. The Aberdeen Area also operates an active research effort through its Area Epidemiology Program. Research projects deal with diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and the application of health risk appraisals in all communities.
Tribal involvement is a major objective of the program, and several tribes have assumed management for their own health care programs through contractual arrangements with the Indian Health Service.
Construction of new health care facilities is ongoing in the Aberdeen IHS service area. The new construction and renovation is expected to increase the IHS employee level to 1,955.
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