1955: Congress funds Indian hospital construction

Surgeon General Silas B. Hays sends Congress the “Most Pressing Needs Study,” an engineering assessment to improve health care facilities and community sanitation facilities, including those on Indian reservations. Congress approves the use of funds set aside by the earlier 1946 Hospital Survey and Construction Act.

P.L. 84-151 extends the use of funds set aside by the 1946 Hospital Survey and Construction Act (also called the Hill-Burton Act after its Senate sponsors) for the construction of Indian hospitals.

Theme

Federal-Tribal Relations

Region

Arctic, California, Great Basin, Great Plains, Northeast, Northwest Coast, Plateau, Southeast, Southwest, Subarctic