{"id":13629,"date":"2019-07-22T07:44:57","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T11:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13629"},"modified":"2019-07-22T07:44:57","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T11:44:57","slug":"how-the-eastern-cherokee-took-control-of-their-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13629","title":{"rendered":"How The Eastern Cherokee Took Control Of Their Health Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Katja Ridderbusch for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>CHEROKEE, N.C. \u2014 Light pours through large windows and glass ceilings of the Cherokee Indian Hospital onto a fireplace, a waterfall and murals. Rattlesnake Mountain, which the Cherokee elders say holds ancient healing powers, is visible from most angles. The hospital\u2019s motto \u2014\u00a0\u201cNi hi tsa tse li\u201d\u00a0or \u201cIt belongs to you\u201d \u2014 is written in Cherokee syllabary on the wall at the main entrance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t look like a hospital, and it doesn\u2019t feel like a hospital,\u201d Kristy Nations said on a recent visit to pick up medications at the pharmacy. \u201cIt actually feels good to be here.\u201d\u00a0 Continue reading<a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/how-the-eastern-cherokee-took-control-of-their-health-care\/\"> article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Katja Ridderbusch for Kaiser Health News) CHEROKEE, N.C. \u2014 Light pours through large windows and glass ceilings of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-health-care-redesign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13630,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13629\/revisions\/13630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}