Lawton Indian Hospital

The Indian Health Service (IHS), an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, is responsible for providing federal health services to American Indians and Alaska Natives. The provision of health services to members of federally-recognized Tribes grew out of the special government-to-government relationship between the federal government and Indian Tribes. The IHS is the principal federal health care provider and health advocate for Indian people, and provides a comprehensive health service delivery system for American Indians and Alaska Natives. The IHS Mission is to raise the physical, mental, social, and spiritual health of American Indians and Alaska Natives to the highest level.

The Lawton Indian Hospital is modern facility with 26 beds and a staff over 30 full time credentialed providers. The facility offers inpatient care including general surgery, gynecology, internal medicine, and pediatrics, as well as a full suite of outpatient services in medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, radiology, laboratory, nursing, optometry, podiatry, and audiology to name a few. There is also a large number of public health nursing staff, health educators, social workers, and environmental health specialists. The hospital provides approximately 800 admissions and over 185,000 outpatient visits per year. Our mission is to raise the physical, mental, social and spiritual health of American Indians and Alaska natives (AI/AN) to the highest level possible.

The Lawton Service Unit encompasses ten counties in the southwestern corner of Oklahoma, where 25,000 members of the Caddo, Comanche, Delaware, Fort Sill Apache, Kiowa, Apache, and Wichita tribes are concentrated. Although mountains and small lakes adorn the rugged landscape, this is great plains country. The Lawton Service Unit includes the Lawton Indian Hospital, the Anadarko Indian Health Center, and the Carnegie Indian Health Center.