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Senator Murray Visits Lummi Nation Health Center, Discusses Funding She Secured to Combat the Opioid Crisis
“Murray, former HELP Committee Chair, negotiated and passed landmark opioid legislation in 2018; this year, Murray secured $4.6 billion in federal funding for substance use disorder treatment and recovery programs
Murray is working to secure more than $10 million for the Lummi in FY25 to help construct a detox facility.”
Since Time Immemorial | Dr. Dakotah Lane
“Since Time Immemorial is a recurring series featuring community members whose families have been here since time immemorial. The ancestral knowledge carried by Lhaq’temish (Lummi), Nooksack, and other Coast Salish peoples is knowledge about how to live in our shared home in a good, life-sustaining way. We live in a time when we need to restore our relationship with Mother Earth and with one another. We are grateful for these stories, told in the words of each featured individual.
Dr. Dakotah Lane is the executive medical director of the Lummi Tribal Health Center. “
OCHIN Partnership Supports Autonomous, Connected Care for Lummi Nation
“Since launching OCHIN Epic in 2021, LTHC has been able to increase their revenue and save enough money to build a larger clinic to support their growing number of patient visits—about 29,000 in October 2022 alone, or about three patients per minute— including behavioral health; physical therapy; medical, dental, and lab services.” [Read More]
New Ways for Medical Students to Serve Tribes
- The UW School of Medicine has formally partnered with the Lummi Nation.
- The partnership allows medical students and trainees to learn at the Lummi Tribal Health Center.
- Learning about tribal medicine is important for all students, especially those who want to serve Native communities. [Read More]
American Diagnosis Podcast: Stewardship Over Biodata Rebuilds Trust / Dakotah Lane & Krystal Tsosie
Exploitative practices in medical research have contributed to the underrepresentation of Native people in clinical trials. Episode 10 explores the efforts of Indigenous scientists to rebuild this broken trust through tribally controlled research. [Read More]
Tackling the Opioid Crisis at the Human & Systems Levels
How The Lummi Tribal Health Clinic Used Design to Address Opioid Overdoses [Read More]
Weill Cornell Medicine Celebrates Leaders in Diversity & Inclusion
Weill Cornell Medicine alumni Dr. Dakotah Lane and Dr. Cristina Toledo-Cornell, who both graduated in 2013, were honored with the Marie Metoyer, M.D. Award for Excellence in Community Service. The award recognizes faculty or alumnus of Weill Cornell Medicine who has gone above and beyond to serve communities despite difficult conditions. Dr. Lane is the executive medical director of the Lummi Tribal Health Clinic in Washington; Dr. Toledo-Cornell is currently an instructor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the former public health director at the Lummi Tribal Health Clinic. Drs. Lane and Toledo-Cornell developed a successful public health strategy to support the Lummi Nation amid the COVID-19 pandemic. They drew up pandemic preparedness plans before the first positive case there, fostered clear communication with the community and coordinated the extension of the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine Phase 3 clinical trial to the Lummi Nation. [Read More]