Dena'ina Wellness Center

This month marks ten years since the Kenaitze Indian Tribe’s Dena’ina Wellness Center opened its doors in Kenai. The tribe held a celebration to commemorate the milestone and honor its strides in holistic care and indigenous healing.

This week is National Suicide Prevention Week, an annual campaign geared at educating and engaging both health professionals and the public about suicide prevention. In 2021, over 48,000 Americans died by suicide.

When warm and wet, birch bark can be folded into baskets — a container for berries or a cradle for babies. But when it’s not fresh off the birch tree,…

Providers with the Kenaitze Indian Tribe have opened up COVID-19 vaccinations to all Indian Health Service beneficiaries 16 and older.As of Wednesday…

The Kenaitze tribe announced plans for a multi-million dollar expansion of its facilities in Kenai Thursday. When the Dena’ina Wellness Center in Old Town…

As more widely-accessible health care continues to slowly advance in America, changes to Indian Health Services or IHS, have come from Obamacare as…

In a small room of a little building on the Kenaitze Indian Tribe campus in Old Town Kenai, U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams heard a big message —…