American Indian Health Service Of Chicago

American Indian Health Service of Chicago (AIHSC) is a minority-owned, non-profit healthcare organization registered with SAM.gov since February 2005, specializing in providing culturally competent medical and behavioral health services to American Indian and Alaska Native populations in the Chicago metropolitan area. The organization integrates Western medicine with ancestral Indigenous teachings to address the health disparities and intergenerational trauma affecting Native American communities. AIHSC serves as the only urban, tribal, or Indian Health Service facility within the State of Illinois, making it a critical healthcare provider for the region's Native American population. Through a combination of federal contracts and grants, the organization delivers comprehensive primary healthcare, mental health services, substance abuse treatment, diabetes management, and suicide prevention programs tailored to meet the unique cultural needs of Indigenous communities.

AIHSC has received substantial federal contract awards totaling approximately $21.7 million across multiple delivery orders and definitive contracts awarded by the Indian Health Service (IHS), a civilian agency within the Department of Health and Human Services. These contracts support the delivery of comprehensive medical health services to eligible Native American beneficiaries in the Chicago metropolitan area. Recent contract awards include a $1,677,386 delivery order for fiscal year 2026 recurring annual funding (awarded October 16, 2025), a $1,291,857 final payment delivery order for fiscal year 2025 (awarded March 7, 2025), a $385,529 delivery order for annual recurring urban and alcohol funding (awarded February 27, 2025), and a $442,096 delivery order covering partnership conference funding, alcohol funds, and training initiatives (awarded September 20, 2024). Additional quarterly and recurring funding delivery orders ranging from approximately $419,000 to $430,000 were awarded throughout 2024 for various service components. Two definitive contracts were awarded: a $3,068,586 contract for medical services running from October 1, 2022, through September 30, 2026, and a $7,521,611.50 contract for medical health services with a performance period from December 21, 2021, through December 31, 2022. All contract awards are firm fixed-price arrangements with no set-aside designations utilized, and services are performed in Chicago, Illinois.

AIHSC has secured multiple federal grant awards totaling over $3.4 million from various federal agencies to support innovative behavioral health, suicide prevention, and substance abuse treatment initiatives serving Native American communities. The organization received a cooperative agreement from the Office of the Director for "The Healing Circle Diabetes Program," which integrates Western medicine with ancestral Indigenous teachings to address chronic disease and intergenerational trauma in the Native American population (awarded January 1, 2023, with completion date December 31, 2027). A project grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Center for Mental Health Services titled "Circle of Survivors" funds culturally competent 988 crisis center support and trauma-informed care services while implementing a decolonizing data project to prevent miscategorization of American Indian/Alaska Native individuals by first responders and medical personnel (awarded December 31, 2022, with completion date July 30, 2025). The Office of the Director awarded a cooperative agreement for "Chicago STI Education, Prevention, and Early Intervention" to address disproportionate sexually transmitted infection rates in the Chicago American Indian and Alaska Native population (awarded September 30, 2022, with completion date September 29, 2027). Three additional Office of the Director project grants support the "Goonakidin Resiliency Project," which addresses suicide prevention through culturally specific interventions incorporating Operation Snowball philosophy (awarded May 1, 2022, completion April 30, 2027); "Every Life Is Sacred," focusing on suicide prevention and mental health promotion for Native American youth (awarded April 1, 2022, completion March 31, 2027); and the "Seven Sacred Branches" substance abuse treatment program delivered through SAMHSA (awarded February 1, 2021, completion May 31, 2023). Additionally, AIHSC serves as a sub-awardee on grants from the Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council, Inc., for opioid surveillance and intervention strategies (awarded August 31, 2022) and from the Chicago Department of Public Health for infectious disease surveillance and prevention capacity building (awarded February 9, 2021).

AIHSC currently holds a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC) valued at $16,190,000 with the Indian Health Service, awarded October 1, 2023, with an ultimate completion date of September 30, 2026. This IDC provides a comprehensive framework for delivering medical health services to eligible Native American beneficiaries in the Chicago metropolitan area and represents the parent vehicle under which all recent quarterly and recurring funding delivery orders have been issued. The IDC accommodates flexible service delivery through various task orders addressing different program components, including primary healthcare, mental health services, training and leadership development, partnership initiatives, and specialized funding for alcohol and substance abuse treatment programs. Under this IDC vehicle, the Indian Health Service has issued multiple firm fixed-price delivery orders totaling over $1.7 million since the contract award, demonstrating AIHSC's established capacity to manage and deliver complex healthcare services to urban Native American populations. The contract ceiling of $16,190,000 provides substantial funding flexibility to support the organization's mission of delivering culturally tailored, comprehensive healthcare to the Native American community across the Chicago metropolitan region through September 30, 2026.