 | United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging - 1989 - 160 pages
...of his parent ' s degenerative illnesses are monitored by a Community Health Representative ( CHR l who takes vital signs, delivers medicine and tries...problematic. In addition, the Indian health Service (IMSl has cut its field health staff in half, doubling the area of responsibility for the remaining... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging - 1989 - 184 pages
...Both of his parent's degenerative illnesses are monitored by a Community Health Representative ( CHR l who takes vital signs, delivers medicine and tries...$100 million dollars in revenue. Further funding for CHR 'a and Home Health Care are problematic. In addition, the Indian health Service (IHSl has cut its... | |
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... diet (prohibitively expensive otherwise). He also provides critical transportation to a hospital some 45 miles from their residence. At least once a week he takes his parents on an outing to the Trading Post where they socialize and purchase necessities.... 