Patient Centered Care

In 2008, the Indian Health Service (IHS) launched a program called ‘’Improving Patient Care’’ (IPC) to improve the quality of healthcare and provide greater access to care for American Indians and Alaska Natives. IPC utilizes the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH), which is best described as a model of primary care that encourages providers and care teams to meet patients where they are, from the simplest to the most complex health conditions. This model ensures that patients are treated with respect, dignity, compassion, and helps to foster strong and trusting relationships with providers and care teams.

Eastern Aleutian Tribes has implemented the PCMH model into each clinic to help build partnerships among practitioners, patients, and their families and to ensure that medical decisions respect patients’ wants, needs, and preferences, and that patients have the education and support they need to make informed decisions about their own health.

Our teams of clinicians will work together each day to fulfill the EAT mission to provide and continually improve quality services in all aspects of health care, supporting the well-being of the people. The EAT vision is to have the healthiest people in the nation!