The Absentee Shawnee Tribal Health System is conducting its annual health community needs assessment. Our goal is to clearly learn your health needs and in turn, the information will aid us in identifying and possibly implementing health activities or programs to better serve our AST community. The assessment contains only 10 questions. When you have an available moment, please feel free to complete. No names are required and answers are anonymous.

The community needs assessment is available either by electronic or paper submission. You may click this link to take the questionnaire: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CGYJHSB Again, your answers are anonymous. This format allows for only one submission per email address.

Or you may use this link to print a paper copy of the questionnaire: http://www.asthealth.org/assets/CNA_2015.pdf If a paper copy is completed, please deliver or forward your to any of: - Shawnee Clinic ADM front desk (Ms. Rhonda Kaseca) - Little Axe Health Center ADM desk (Ms. Brandy Dougan) - Directly to attention to Aly Miller at Shawnee Health ADM

AFTER HOUR PHARMACY NOTIFICATION

The Walgreens located at 100 12th Avenue NE in Norman, OK is no longer contracted with the AST Health System to pay for after hour emergency prescriptions due to losing its 24-hour service status. Tribal members may now take prescriptions to:

Walgreens 615 W. Main St Norman, OK 405.573.5019  

The Cleveland County Health Department, collaborating with community partners, is working on updating their community health assessment (CHA). This is a county wide project in hopes of reaching a consensus on what should be the top health priorities for Cleveland County. These priorities will drive the development of our community health improvement plan (CHIP).

Attached is the Community Health Survey. Please take the survey and share with those you know, work with, attend school with or do business with in Cleveland County.

2015 Cleveland County Community Health Status Survey https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LGWBBFP

2015 Encuesta del Estado de Salud de la Comunidad del Condado Cleveland https://es.surveymonkey.com/r/5DRZMWS

The Absentee Shawnee Tribal Health System announces the opening of an after hour walk-in clinic called the AST PlusCare Clinic. This service will be located at 15702 East State Highway 9 (the former Little Axe Clinic site), Norman, Oklahoma, and will begin to see patients on March 30, 2015. The PlusCare Clinic is an acute care facility that will have the ability to treat non-life threatening illnesses and injuries on a walk-in basis (no appointment needed) for AST tribal members and other IHS eligible Native Americans. The PlusCare Clinic number is 405.447.0477. We will have special hours this week due to the holiday; the clinic will be open: - Monday through Thursday from 5 PM to 9 PM - Friday from 10AM -4 PM - Saturday from 10 AM to 4 PM; and - Closed for Easter Sunday (April 5th) The PlusCare Clinic will consist of 4 private exam rooms including a pediatric room. Care provided for will include common illnesses, sprains, strains, flu, allergies, and infections. However, if you have a life threatening injury, onset of a heart attack or stroke please call or immediately go to the hospital/emergency room nearest you.