Company Profile
United Indian Health Services
Company Overview
Come join United Indian Health Services in providing healthcare to our Native Community. Our Vision of a healthy mind, body, and spirit is embraced by those who founded our organization. Positions range from Clinical, Dental, Behavioral Health, Vision and Community Health and Wellness. UIHS brings members of the community together so they can not only be unified in ensuring the best care is provided to their families, but also help in preserving the Native culture through education, community outreach and medicine.
Company History
The history of the United Indian Health Services began in 1968. It was a time when Native activism coincided with the nation-wide Civil Rights Movement and the Office of Economic Opportunity programs. Together these factors helped create a new era of self-determination for Indian peoples.
In California, where health services were so lacking, Indian groups formed their own health organizations. Each maintained its separate programs but together they started the California Rural Indian Health Board Inc. (CRIHB), an organization which continues providing its members with a variety of quality improvement and advocacy services. Sheer determination, hard work and financial sacrifice paid off when UIHS became an official non-profit organization, ready to serve people in 1970.
UIHS started with community outreach services. The first services provided on site were dental services. UIHS continued to expand it’s services into nearly every large town within Humboldt County, as well as servicing tribal members from every Rancheria and Reservation in the areas of Humboldt and Del Norte Counties. The use of UIHS mobile services allowed the clinic to provide services to tribal members who still lived in areas that had no electricity or telephones.
Over the next twenty years UIHS outgrew four sites, started several satellite clinics, and went from offering basic visiting community health representative’s, dental and medical services to a thoroughly modern, full spectrum health service agency. Along the way UIHS has increasingly realized it’s goal of incorporating traditional values and customs into daily activities.
Benefits
HEALTH INSURANCE
ELIGIBILITY: All active, full-time employees of UIHS who are US citizens or permanent resident aliens regularly working a minimum of 30 hours per week in the US.
EFFECTIVE: First of the month following 30 days of active employment.
NOTE: Below cost reflects full-time work status. Less than full-time, benefit cost is prorated.
• MEDICAL – Employee only: $0 per month (Company paid)
• DENTAL – Employee only: $0 per month (Company paid)
• VISION – Employee only: $0 per month (Company paid)
LIFE INSURANCE
ELIGIBILITY: All active, full-time employees of UIHS who are US citizens or permanent resident aliens regularly working a minimum of 30 hours per week in the US.
EFFECTIVE: First of the month following 30 days of active employment.
403(B) RETIREMENT PLAN
ELIGIBILITY: All active employees of UIHS who are US citizens or permanent resident aliens (including employees with a work status of On Call/Per Diem)
EFFECTIVE: You may begin participating upon hire
• 100% Vested on Day One
• UIHS matches up to 4% of employee contribution after six months of employment