Seattle Indian Health Board

Amount Appropriated?

$5.0M

FFID tracks stages 1–2 — stages 3–5 vary by agency, assistance type, and earmark structure.

Project Description

This project supports facility construction and equipment for the Seattle Indian Health Board\u2019s (SIHB) Thunderbird Treatment Center (TTC). The relocation and expansion of TTC from 65 to 92 beds will provide and improve access to desperately needed integrated health, dental, pharmacy, and traditional health services as well as Medically Assisted Treatment, specialized services for pregnant and parenting adults, on-site medical and pharmacy services, and access to its mobile dental clinic, while increasing access to culturally attuned in-patient substance use disorder (SUD) services.\n\nService projections show a 104% increase in behavioral health services by 2026 (pre-project baseline of 280 patients to 490 patients post-project). Behavioral health and SUD services are desperately needed, with only two tribally run in-patient SUD facilities statewide. TTC would fill behavioral health service gaps and offer culturally attuned in-patient mental health programming, specifically for urban American Indian and Alaska Native people in addition to serving Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), individuals accessing Medicaid or Medicare, and pregnant and parenting adults.\n\nSIHB anticipates that the relocation of TTC will result in sustained and long-term job creation of a medical and behavioral health related workforce specializing in culturally attuned integrated care. The expansion to a 92-bed in-patient treatment center and medical clinic is expected to create 45 FTE long term jobs including health care providers, MAT-Certified medical staff, case managers, SUD professionals, resident assistants, cooks, custodians, and Traditional Indian Medicine practitioners. Among patients served in 2021, 52% identified as American Indian and/or Alaska Native, 86% identified as BIPOC, and 56% of clients fell below 100% of the federal poverty line. Funding will expand services to BIPOC people in greater King County.