NEWS RELEASE
SAULT TRIBE OF CHIPPEWA INDIANS
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A Sault Tribe data security incident has impacted the Sault Tribe Health Division’s ability to provide comprehensive medical services. Please see the information below if you plan on receiving health-care services at any of our clinics. Thank you, and we apologize for the inconvenience. Updates will be provided as the situation evolves.
Information area has been set-up in the auditorium at the Sault Ste. Marie Tribal Health Center to provide information on current health services. Patients can visit this center for information. For any general questions please contact the numbers below:
REGISTRATION Sault Ste. Marie - Phone Number: (906) 440-8243 or (906) 379-8992 St. Ignace - Phone number: (906) 440-6750 (operational on Feb. 14, 2025) Manistique - Phone number: (906) 440-6751 (operational on Feb. 14, 2025) Munising - Phone number: (906) 440-6752 (operational on Feb. 14, 2025)
AUDIOLOGY Phone number: (906) 440-8252 Location: Various Locations All current services are available to members.
BEHAVIORAL HEALTH Sault Ste. Marie - Phone number: (906) 440-1365 St. Ignace - Phone number: (906) 440-6753 (operational on Feb. 14, 2025) Munising - Phone number: (906) 440-6709 (operational on Feb. 14, 2025) All scheduled in-person therapy appointments are able to be continued with limited capabilities. Walk-in urgent care services are also available.
COMMUNITY HEALTH Sault Ste. Marie - Phone number: (906) 440-8252 St. Ignace - Phone number: (906) 440-6720 (operational on Feb. 14, 2025) The following services are available: nursing, diabetes, nutrition, tobacco cessation, medical fitness, home visits, office visits, footcare, incontinence supplies, car seat program and breast-feeding supplies. DeTour - Phone number: (906) 440-6725 (operational on Feb. 14, 2025) Existing medication pick up, incontinence supplies, car seat program and breast-feeding supplies. Hessel - Phone number: (906) 440-6727 (operational on Feb. 14, 2025) Existing medication pick up, incontinence supplies, car seat program and breast-feeding supplies.
DENTAL Sault Ste. Marie - Phone number: (906) 440-8750 St. Ignace - Phone number: (906) 440-6728 (operational on Feb. 14, 2025) Manistique - Phone number: (906) 440-6729 (operational on Feb. 14, 2025) Until further notice ALL scheduled appointments are canceled. The Dental Department will be open for emergency walk-in dental services between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m.. The Sault Ste. Marie and St. Ignace clinics will be open Monday through Friday and the Manistique clinic will be open Monday through Wednesday only.
MAT – THE HEALING PLACE Sault Ste. Marie - Phone number: (906) 440-8249 We will be seeing patients as scheduled. Patients that have missed appointments will need to contact the number above or present to the clinic to be seen or rescheduled.
MEDICAL OFFICE (PRIMARY CARE SERVICES) Sault Ste. Marie - Phone number: (906) 379-8992 Until further notice ALL scheduled appointments are canceled. WALK-IN CLINIC Sault Ste. Marie - Phone number: (906) 440-8239 The Walk-In Clinic will be open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. to see patients for acute needs. For ALL appointments, please bring a list of all current non-prescribed medications and all prescription bottles. Lab services are currently limited.
OPTICAL Sault Ste. Marie - Phone number: (906) 440-8259 St. Ignace - Phone number: (906) 440-6742 (operational on Feb. 14, 2025) Manistique - Phone number: (906) 440-6744 (operational on Feb. 14, 2025) If you had a previously scheduled appointment, please contact the above numbers to discuss your existing appointment. Eye glass pick-ups, repairs, and any ocular emergencies will be handled on a walk-in basis.
PHARMACY Sault Ste. Marie - Phone number: (906) 440-8165 St. Ignace - Phone number: (906) 379-7384 Manistique - Phone number: (906) 440-6746 (operational on Feb. 14, 2025) Munising - Phone number: (906) 440-6747 (operational on Feb. 14, 2025) If you need a refill on NON-CONTROLLED medications, please bring your prescription bottles/boxes to your local Sault Tribe Pharmacy, and the staff will provide you with a 14-day supply of medication. For Marquette, Escanaba and Newberry please contact your local Sault Tribe primary care pharmacy for refills. Prescriptions that were requested prior to the closure can be picked up at your local Sault Tribe Pharmacy. For all refills on CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES, you must contact your local Sault Tribe Pharmacy, and a hard copy written prescription will be provided and will need to be filled at an outside pharmacy. Any NEW prescriptions written from your local tribal clinic for acute needs will be filled by an outside local pharmacy. These prescriptions will be filled at no cost to you at one of the following outside pharmacy locations. If you choose to use ANY other pharmacy than listed below you will be responsible for the cost: Arfstrom’s Pharmacy — Sault Ste. Marie Mackinac Straits Pharmacy — St. Ignace Putvin Healthmart — Manistique Putvin Drug Store — Munising Peninsula Pharmacy — Escanaba and Marquette.
PURCHASED REFERRED CARE (PRC) Sault Ste. Marie - Phone number: (906) 440-8276, or (906) 440-6712 (operational on Feb. 14, 2025) At this time, we do not have the ability to issue any new authorizations/voucher numbers for services or new medications. If you have an existing medication at an outside pharmacy, those pharmacies have agreed to fill them as usual. Upcoming medical services needing vouchers can still be reported to PRC staff. Once systems are accessible, PRC will call patients to follow-up or complete the authorization requests. Any previous authorizations are valid.
RADIOLOGY Sault Ste. Marie - Phone number: (906) 440-8264 Until further notice ALL scheduled appointments are canceled.
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