Phoenix Indian Medical Center Indian Health Service

11/14/2025

🩺 A Season of Gratitude and Wellness
November is both American Diabetes Awareness Month and the season of Thanksgiving. This is the perfect time to take steps toward better health:
✅ Choose water over sugary drinks
✅ Include more fiber-rich foods like beans and veggies
✅ Enjoy desserts in moderation

Let’s give thanks for our health — and take care of it together. 💙

11/14/2025

🔴Free Emergency Produce Distribution this SUNDAY in partnership with Native Health Phoenix 🔴

This event is open to anyone who is currently struggling with getting enough food. So whether you are waiting for your SNAP benefits to come through, or you never even had SNAP. There will be limited boxes available on a first come first serve basis. No ID or qualifications, but event is open to people who do not have the funds and need some produce in their lives at the moment.

Sunday, November 16th
Drive-thru style distribution
9:00am - 12:00pm.

NHW Community Health Center
8800 North 22nd Avenue
Phoenix, AZ 85021

**This is one block south of Dunlap off 22nd Avenue.

11/12/2025

11/12/2025

🎉 Join us for the PIMC MEGA Fall Family Fest!
📅 Saturday, November 22, 2025 (mark your calendar)
🕙 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
📍 Phoenix Indian Medical Center (PIMC)

Celebrate community, culture, and wellness at this free, family-friendly event open to the public!

We’ll be recognizing November observances including American Diabetes Awareness Month, Native American Heritage Month, Veterans Recognition, Roc Your Mocs, and the Great American Smokeout.

✅ Over 25 health education, food demo, and activity booths hosted by PIMC departments and Valley partners
🧺 120+ Native American vendors selling beautiful handmade crafts in our Indian Market

Come for the fun, learning, and cultural celebration — everyone is welcome to attend this FREE event!

11/11/2025

This Veterans Day, we honor and thank all who have served in the uniformed services of the United States — including the Armed Forces, the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, and NOAA Corps. At PIMC, we are especially proud to recognize the many veterans and commissioned officers among our own staff who continue to serve our patients and communities every day, from leadership roles to frontline care and support services. Your continued dedication to service reflects the values of integrity, courage, and commitment that define both military and public health service.

We also pay tribute to our Native American and Alaska Native Veterans, whose legacy of service stands as a testament to strength, resilience, and deep cultural pride. Native people serve in the U.S. military at higher rates than any other group, reflecting generations of honor, community, and sacrifice.

Today, and every day, we express our gratitude to all Veterans and their families. Your service and sacrifice continue to inspire us.

Thank you for your service.

11/10/2025

This November, we proudly observe National Native American Heritage Month under the theme, “Spirit of Healing: Our Culture, Our Wellness, Our Strength.”

This theme honors the enduring traditions, values, and cultural teachings that guide us in caring for the physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being of our American Indian and Alaska Native communities.

At PIMC, this theme deeply reflects the Indian Health Service mission — to raise the physical, mental, social, and spiritual health of American Indians and Alaska Natives to the highest level. It reminds us that healing is not only clinical, but also cultural and communal. By embracing the wisdom of our ancestors and the strength of our traditions, we continue to advance health in ways that honor identity, resilience, and community connection.

Through the PIMC ASCEND vision, we put this mission into action every day. By listening to our patients and Communities, empowering individuals and teams, and caring with compassion and respect, we build our shared future together. These values echo the spirit of this year’s theme — nurturing wellness and strength through unity, understanding, and cultural pride.

Together, we celebrate the culture, wellness, and strength that unite us, and we continue to build a foundation of healing that uplifts our people today and strengthens the generations to come.
Happy National Native American Heritage Month.

11/10/2025

Valley fever is an infection caused by a fungus found in the southwest of the United States. Most people who breathe it in don’t get sick, but some do, and the symptoms can last weeks to months. Learn more: maricopa.gov/ValleyFever

11/07/2025

Congratulations to Lt. Cmdr. Melissa de Vera, assistant director with the Division of Sanitation Facilities Construction and an enrolled member of the Rocky Boy Chippewa Cree Tribe, for being selected as one of 12 recipients of the 76th annual Arthur S. Flemming Award, one of the highest honors for federal employees: https://bit.ly/3Xjf66I

Her efforts and recruiting approach helped enable the agency to deliver $3.5 billion in sanitation projects funded through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, improving access to safe drinking water and sanitary waste disposal infrastructure for American Indians and Alaska Natives.

“What I see this work really doing for Native communities in the long run is hopefully putting more Native American engineers in positions to be able to assist the tribes, and to be able to assist them in a way that helps them make informed decisions about their water and their sewer and their solid waste infrastructure,” de Vera said.

Read more here: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/11/07/bemidji-resident-indian-health-service-employee-receives-government-service-award

11/06/2025

11/05/2025

Recognizing stress is important. Here are three tips to help you recognize and manage stress:

1. Check in with your body. Do you feel tension in your muscles, jaw, or head?
2. Reflect on the moment. Use journaling to help you reflect on triggers, emotional situations, or days when you feel stress.
3. Name the emotion. Are you feeling stress or anger, sadness, or resentment? Naming emotions can help us manage them.

If you are feeling stressed or overwhelmed, there is confidential support available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Call, text, or chat the 988 Lifeline (https://988lifeline.org/) or text NATIVE to 741 741 to reach a support specialist at Crisis Text Line.

11/04/2025

In observance of the federal holiday Veterans Day, PIMC clinics and all outpatient services will be closed on Tuesday, November 11, 2025. If you have an urgent need, our Emergency Department is open 24/7, our Main Pharmacy will be open from 8:00am to 4:00pm, and the Laboratory will be open from 7:00am-2:00pm for lab draws and drop offs. 🇺🇸

11/03/2025

🥗🍔 November Menus Are Now Available 🌮🥤
Our Novaki Dining Hall dining hall is located on our ground floor and open to staff, patients, and visitors.
Breakfast is served from 7:30am to 8:30am, and lunch is served from 11:00am to 1:30pm.
💵 Meals are $5, cash only.