CLAREMORE, Okla. — The Cherokee Nation is working to assume operations of Claremore Indian Hospital by late 2025.
On Tuesday, Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. signed a council resolution supporting compact discussions with Indian Health Services. The move was announced in a press release.
“Claremore Indian Hospital has provided a great deal of quality health care to countless Cherokee families and to citizens of many tribal nations for decades. The hospital, however, is in a system that is not superior to the Cherokee Nation Health Services system. They are laboring under a lack of adequate funding, whether it’s on the infrastructure side or the operations side,” Chief Hoskin said. “We plan to begin this process by examining every facet of that facility to determine whether it is something our health system should take on, and I believe it is. We have the capacity to do it, I believe we can run health care better, and our system is already raising the bar every day for health care in Indian Country.”