Aaron Wernham, MD, MS
We look back at the year with gratitude for the hard work and accomplishments of our partners and staff. In 2025, we funded over 120 projects that supported work in communities across Montana, and we saw outcomes in several of our initiatives, which resulted from many years of work by our partners with our support. … Continued
Melinda Buchheit, MS
The Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana: Food Distribution Program In April 2024, the Little Shell Tribe opened a new food distribution program to provide more nutritious and Indigenous foods for its tribal members. Providing quality and, oftentimes, local food is the tribe’s latest effort to improve the health of its people through … Continued
Melinda Buchheit, MS
In October 2021, the Spotted Bull Recovery Resource Center is targeted to open the doors of a new residential treatment program for the Fort Peck community. Spotted Bull has historically been the Fort Peck Tribes’ outpatient chemical dependency center. In 2016, they applied for a planning grant to start thinking about how they could treat … Continued
The National Indian Health Board and North Dakota State University released a report outlining the impact a full repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act would have on Tribes and American Indians/Alaska Natives across the country.
MHCF announces more than $600,000 in new grants to improve American Indian health in Montana.
Aaron Wernham, MD, MS
Health Affairs guest blog post by MHCF CEO Dr. Aaron Wernham on how the Foundation has worked in its first two years to build new partnerships for American Indian and Alaska Native health.
The Office of American Indian Health was created as a result of the dedicated work by tribal leaders and state and federal health officials to help develop a framework for addressing the health disparities that affect Montana’s American Indian people.