Community Health

Hours:
Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 4:30pm
Closed from 12pm to 1pm for lunch

Physical Address:
18490 Suquamish Way
Suquamish, WA 98392
(Southeast Entrance)

Contact Information:
Phone: (360) 394-8469
Email: communityhealth@suquamish.nsn.us

Suquamish Tribe Community Health_FinalFile_11102023_Cropped

Who is Eligible?

The Community Health Team provides services to all Suquamish Tribal Members and their families residing in Kitsap County. We also serve members of other federally recognized tribes, who reside within the Port Madison Indian Reservation.

What does Community Health do?

Our Community Health team uses non-clinical approaches for improving health and navigating barriers within the health system. We also focus on preventing disease and reducing health disparities. This is accomplished by addressing social, behavioral, environmental, economic, and medical factors throughout our community, its members, and their families.

Looking for information about WIC or our Nutrition Services? Check out their page here.

Below is a list to of the most common services we provide. Click on a service or contact us to learn more.

Care Coordination

We organize patient appointments and care activities along with sharing information among everyone involved with a person’s care routine.

Medical Case Management

We coordinate with healthcare providers, manage appointments and treatment plans, provide certain nursing services, and help patients reach their optimal health.

Nurse Home Visits and Welfare Checks

These visits can include checking vitals, such as: blood pressure, temperature, heart rate, and breathing. The checks can also ensure that they’re taking their prescriptions, supplements, and performing any treatments correctly.

Patient Advocacy for Our Clients

As patient advocates, we give a voice to patients, survivors, and their caregivers by informing the public, healthcare providers, and other communities about any issues that arise. We also safeguard patients from errors, incompetence, and misconduct, protect patient rights, and build awareness and support for patients, survivors, and their caregivers.

Medical Transportation

Community Health offers assistance for anyone facing barriers that are preventing them from accessing transportation to their healthcare visits and/or medical related appointments.

Durable Medical Equipment Assistance, Coordination, and Delivery

Community Health can help you obtain, deliver, and in some cases, provide Durable Medical Equipment (DME) when needed. DME is any medical equipment used in the home. Examples are: Walkers, Wheelchairs, Oxygen Supplies, CPAP Machines, Glucose Monitors, and much more.

Nutrition Services

Community Health has a Registered Dietitian that can offer one-on-one or family consultations. Read more and get in touch here.

WIC Program

WIC stands for Women, Infants, and Children and it is a supplemental nutrition program for pregnant, breastfeeding or post-partum women, infants and children to age 5.

Support Groups

Wisdom Warriors is a monthly group, typically offered from Fall to Spring and is focused on self-management of mind, body, and spirit. Topics discussed include: stress management, dealing with addictions, managing chronic diseases, general health, and diet. It does all this while incorporating the Suquamish culture.

Educational Classes

We host classes in nutrition, chronic disease management, diabetes management, childbirth education, and more.

Tobacco Cessation Assistance

Community Health can help with the tools, support, and education needed to help someone quit their smoking habit.

Medication Management and Pick-Up

We oversee the usage of prescribed medications to ensure they are taken properly and achieve the desired outcome. This includes monitoring, reconciling medications, and reviewing prescribed drugs and their possible side effects to create treatment plans and monitor their safety and efficacy.

If you have any barriers preventing you from filling your prescriptions in person, we can have your medication picked up from your pharmacy and delivered to your door or assist you with enrolling in a home delivery plan.

Flu Vaccine Clinics

Community Health offers a Flu Vaccine Clinic where you can receive a vaccine that protects against the four influenza viruses that are most common during the Fall and Winter seasons. Protection from a flu shot lasts around 6 to 8 months. Once the season ends, the flu shot does not protect you any longer, so you will need a new vaccination for the following year’s season.

Covid-19 Vaccines and Boosters

People who are up to date on their COVID vaccines have lower risk of severe illness, hospitalization and death from COVID-19 than people who are unvaccinated or who have not completed the doses recommended for them by CDC. Additional updated COVID-19 vaccine boosters can help restore protection that has decreased since previous vaccination. To learn about eligibility, check out our Health & Wellness News section or contact us directly.

Basic Nursing Services and so much more…

Community Health has nurses that fill health system gaps in our community. They go to organizations, schools, and businesses to offer health education, medical services, and rehabilitation. They can provide home health screenings, education, offer certain in-home treatments, and so much more.