Porcupine Clinic

The Indian Health Service (IHS) announces the Grant Award to the Porcupine Clinic for start up cost in reopening the Porcupine Dialysis Center for the dialysis patients who had utilized this center. Those dialysis patients have had to travel a long distance to make their appointments two to three times a week. The award is issued under the authority of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, Section 1621(c), and is included under the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance number 93.933. The specific objectives of the project are: 1. To be used to prolong the lives of dialysis patients. 2. To provide culturally-based care for the Lakota people; and, 3. To ameliorate conditions resulting from lack of transportation, insufficient funding, and extreme social problems on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.