To Our Patients
On behalf of myself and your health care providers, we welcome you to the Buford L. Rolin Health Clinic. Our efforts are directed toward providing our patients with a top notch health care facility which includes skilled providers, leading technology, and the latest treatment options while immersing you in a caring and healing environment. You, the patient, are the passion and drive behind what we do here. We hope this handbook helps you and your family get to know us as well as what you can expect while here.
In health,
Kelly Martin Dirting
Health and Human Services Division Director
Our Mission
By building trusting relationships based on respect for cultural identity, we meet our citizens where they are and guide them to make choices that enhance their quality of life. Through a variety of medical and educational programs that focus on prevention and wellbeing in mind, body and spirit, we listen, care for and support them so that they can feel their best and live their lives to the fullest.
Our Vision
To be the health care clinic of choice through excellence in leadership, quality and innovation.
The Buford L. Rolin Health Clinic History
The Poarch Creek Indians flagship health clinic opened in 1985 in the metal building east of St. Anna’s Episcopal Church on the corner of Lynn McGhee Drive and Jack Springs Road. The second Health Clinic was located at 5811 Jack Springs Road, was dedicated in January 1987, and occupied 5,200 square feet of the 11,780 square foot “old building 100” which contained Tribal Administration, the Health Clinic, and the Tribal Council Chambers.
The Buford L. Rolin Health Clinic is a 68,430 square foot full service, outpatient clinic owned and operated by the Poarch Creek Indians and is partially funded through Indian Health Services. The Poarch Creek Indians is committed to providing advanced health care to help preserve and enhance the lives of its patients through a combination of direct care and referral services.
In 2014, the Buford L. Rolin Health Clinic opened in order to accommodate the growing needs of the Poarch Creek Indians. The new, state-of-the-art facility is named for former Health Director and Tribal Chairman Buford L. Rolin who has been a steadfast advocate for healthcare at Poarch and all across Indian Country. Known for his integrity and strong work ethic, Chairman Rolin worked tirelessly for more than three decades to build stronger and more prosperous communities for the Poarch Creek Indians.
“I call upon my American Indian and Alaska Native friends and peers to work together with the House of Representatives to help attain the goals our ancestors sought to acquire for us; to ensure that it is possible for all of our Tribes to redevelop the ability to take care of their own people. Not one of us can return to our people back home on Reservations, on Pueblos, or in Native Villages without a commitment to doing all we can to improve the health of our people to the best of our ability.”
Testimony of Buford L. Rolin, Chairman, National Indian Health Board, Committee on Resources, March 17, 1998
