<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Ihs on Cephas - Liana Banyan Knowledge Center</title><link>https://cephas.lianabanyan.com/tags/ihs/</link><description>Recent content in Ihs on Cephas - Liana Banyan Knowledge Center</description><generator>Hugo -- 0.152.2</generator><language>en-us</language><copyright>Ã¢â€Â¬Ã¢Å’Â 2026 Liana Banyan Corporation. All rights reserved.</copyright><lastBuildDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://cephas.lianabanyan.com/tags/ihs/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>I'm Just a Bill: Indian Health Service Modernization</title><link>https://cephas.lianabanyan.com/im-just-a-bill/indian-health-service-modernization/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://cephas.lianabanyan.com/im-just-a-bill/indian-health-service-modernization/</guid><description>&lt;h1 id="-im-just-a-bill--indian-health-service-modernization"&gt;👀 I&amp;rsquo;m Just a Bill — Indian Health Service Modernization&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;h2 id="a-liana-banyan-im-just-a-bill-bounty-poster"&gt;A Liana Banyan &amp;ldquo;I&amp;rsquo;m Just a Bill&amp;rdquo; Bounty Poster&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 id="what-is-this-bill"&gt;What is this bill?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Indian Health Service (IHS) modernization in the 119th Congress addressing chronic IHS underfunding (~50% of healthcare-need-based funding levels per documented HHS reports).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="what-does-it-actually-do"&gt;What does it actually do?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Advance appropriations for IHS (multi-year funding stability)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Tribal Self-Governance expansion (more 638-contracted services)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Workforce recruitment + retention programs&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Facilities modernization funding&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Mental and behavioral health expansion&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h2 id="how-does-this-affect-cooperative-class-families"&gt;How does this affect cooperative-class families?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Composes with &lt;strong&gt;#6 Tatiana Schlossberg Health Accords&lt;/strong&gt; Tribal-sovereignty composing layer, &lt;strong&gt;#7 MSA&lt;/strong&gt; for cooperative-class supplemental capital pooling, and the &lt;a href="../native-american-self-determination/"&gt;Native American Self-Determination Act Amendments&lt;/a&gt; Bounty Poster.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>