My experiences with searhc has been increasingly more frustrating with each interaction. For starters, its team has spread itself so thin that they are not able to effectively help their patients. I had an extremely bad infection that requires antibiotics that I was told I could call in and get refilled when needed. Yet this promise was not upheld when I had to call for a week straight, where I was constantly met with “we are too understaffed to help, please call back again tomorrow.” When I finally got referred, the pharmacy told me that the refill would take days to come in and I should go to urgent care if I’m in so much pain. So after a week of being in debilitating pain, I went to urgent care where they said they didn’t know what was wrong and to make a doctors appointment. This constant chase of being batted around to different departments with no success in treatment directly reflects searhc’s inability to support their patients, especially native patients who they claim have their utmost attention. Unfortunately, my bad experience with searhc extent to the faculty itself. Multiple times staff has made me feel neglected and discriminated against. An example has been with Mindona Billings, who purposefully deadnamed and misgendered me after acknowledging my preferred name and pronouns. As a Christian woman, Billings should know more than anyone to love thy neighbor and not let her beliefs affect the quality of care she gives her patients. This is extremely disappointing considering the fact that searhc prides itself on having a diverse and accepting team, just to turn a blind eye when their faculty is harming lgbtq+ youth. Health practitioners are supposed to care for patients no matter their identity or background. Adding on, my experience with searhc is subjective, yet relatives of mine have had similar experiences with the downfall of searhc. My family member was recently told that searhc is cutting off her insurance, and was told she now has to fly out of town if she wishes to seek any further care with them. The fact that searhc is quietly stripping away resources with no remorse for its native residents is nothing short of disheartening. Tribal citizens already experience moderate to low health care standards, and with searhc expanding, they are adding on to these devastating statistics. In summary, searhc has increasingly lowered their quality of care for their patients and I advise people to seek medical care at any other institution before going to searhc.
