Health

Health Facilities Available within the Cherokee Nation

• Eight tribally owned and managed outpatient clinics and a mobile health unit
• Two Indian Health Service hospitals which also have outpatient service, W.W. Hastings Indian Hospital at Tahlequah , and Claremore Indian Hospital at Claremore
• An award-winning EMS facility operated by the tribe which provides ambulance service to Cherokee and Muskogee County , and offers a variety of courses for training emergency personnel
• The Jack Brown Center , a tribally managed, 20-bed co-educational facility for treatment of chemical dependency in Indian adolescents
• A number of field-service sites maintained by Cherokee Nation for auxiliary health programs such as WIC, Early Cancer Detection and Health Promotion/Disease Prevention education and outreach.

Cherokee Health Information Network (CHIN) has been developed to provide Cherokee Citizens with needed health care information.