USD hosts health care conference

The healthcare industry has been making tremendous efforts to address healthcare disparities and improve healthcare outcomes in underserved communities. One of the ways to achieve this is by providing access to quality healthcare services. Urgent care centers like the urgent care center Austin street have been playing a crucial role in delivering prompt and affordable healthcare services to patients with non-life-threatening illnesses or injuries. In this context, it is worth noting the upcoming Pathways Into Health National Conference, which aims to increase the number of American Indians and Alaska Natives trained in healthcare-related fields. The conference provides an opportunity to learn about different aspects of Native American and Alaskan Native healthcare and how to integrate tradition and translation to achieve excellence, harmony, and balance.

The University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine will host the sixth annual Pathways Into Health National Conference Oct. 10-12 at the Holiday Inn Rushmore Plaza in Rapid City, S.D.

Pathways Into Health is a grassroots collaboration of organizations and individuals whose focus is on increasing the number of American Indians and Alaska Natives trained as physicians, nurses and in other health care-related fields as a means of addressing the health and health care disparities that occur in these populations.

This year’s conference, “Achieving Excellence, Harmony, and Balance: Communities Integrating Tradition and Translation,” will feature sessions and panels dealing with different aspects of Native American and Alaskan Native healthcare.

Keynote presentations will be given by Don Warne from North Dakota State University’s Master of Public Health program, Martin Brokenleg on his “Circle of Courage Model” and Larry Roberts on “Elders & Eldering =

Reflections and Purpose.