June 4, 2015 Less than four months after the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) created a special, top-tier position for Dr. Yvette Roubideaux to advise HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell on Indian health and other Native-focused matters, Roubideaux has announced that she is stepping away from the department altogether.
“I am so grateful to have served in the Obama Administration with you and to have witnessed history – at IHS, we have experienced strong and historic support for our work from the President, the Administration, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), former HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and our current HHS Secretary Silvia Burwell, other HHS leadership, and bipartisan support from Congress,”
Roubideaux wrote in a June 1 e-mail to Indian Health Service (IHS) staff. “This historic support has enabled us to increase our budget by over a third, and accomplish much to improve healthcare for the patients we serve.”
Roubideaux encouraged IHS employees “to continue to change and improve” the agency, the Rosebud Sioux citizen wrote. “And while the answers and solutions are not simple, and cannot all be done at once, the progress we have made in the last six years has been substantial; even so, we all know that there is much more to do.”
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