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Hands for Health Foundation

Closer to home

Outreach in our own country

Not all of the work happens overseas. Rocky Vista medical teams offer screening and health education at the annual health fair on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

Our impact

Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota

2Outreach trips
46Volunteers

Coordinators

Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine

Pine Ridge in pictures

Moments from the annual health fair on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

  • The team at their booth talking with community members
  • A clinician taking a patient's details at an outdoor table
  • A volunteer with a community member at the health fair
  • Health screening under way at a fair table
  • A student clinician checking a young patient
  • Volunteers with a group of children at the health fair
  • An intake conversation at the health fair

Stories from Pine Ridge

November 5, 2018

Porcupine Powwow: a surprising kinship with osteopathy

Osteopaths may share a surprising kinship with Lakotas when it comes to a holistic view of health. Second-year RVU medical students on the trip, who numbered ten, made these medical and cultural observations.