Healthcare organizations are still seeing an unprecedented shortage of providers and frontline staff, forcing them to resort to hiring traveling staff and contractors—which come at a high cost. In addition to grappling with the labor shortage, leaders in Tribal healthcare must continue to navigate COVID-19 relief funding and sources, lease accounting, and growth and expansion. This episode, REDW National Tribal Practice Leader Wes Benally discusses key issues affecting Tribal healthcare with Principal Chris Tyhurst.
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Meet Your Hosts:
Wesley Ryan Benally, CPA
Principal and National Tribal Practice Leader
As the leader of REDW’s National Tribal Practice, Wes is committed to improving financial literacy throughout Indian Country. He oversees audits of a wide range for Native American communities, state and local government agencies, and non-profits, nationwide and is a member of the Arizona State Board of Accountancy’s Peer Review Oversight Advisory Committee and serves as an instructor with Arizona State University’s American Indian Policy Institute.
Christopher Tyhurst, CPA
Principal, Audit & Assurance
Chris has been in public accounting since 1994 and has extensive experience auditing Native American tribes and their enterprises, including hospitals and health centers. He has also provided many other financial and strategic consulting services to tribes, including internal controls, enterprise board training, financial forecasts, and staff training on accounting and federal grant management topics.
Compensation Studies—Your Key to Hiring & Retaining Top Talent.
It’s important to attract—and retain—the best employees to ensure the long-term success and sustainability of your tribal organization. And given an exceptionally competitive labor market and the usual budget constraints, this means basing your employee compensation and benefits programs on relevant and reliable data.
More from Insight in Indian Country
- Reducing Risks in Retirement Plan Management with Paul Madrid, CPA®, CFP®, AIFA®This episode, Wes Benally and Paul Madrid discuss the Tribal fiduciary role and reducing risk in the management of employer-sponsored retirement plans.
- A Leader’s Journey in Tribal Finance with Hattie Mitchell, CPA, CFE, Prairie Band Potawatomi NationHattie shares her journey as a professional and member of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation with REDW National Tribal Practice Leader and show host, Wes Benally. She discusses her background and the inspiration she drew from her family’s involvement in tribal finance…
- Rewards of an Accounting Career with Colaine Curtis (Diné), MBAColaine shares her journey as a Diné woman in the accounting profession, discussing her early career working for tribal organizations, transition to public accounting, and the rewards and challenges of her work.
- Safeguarding Data: Navigating Cybersecurity FundingRecent nationwide efforts for Tribal Nations to access FEMA cybersecurity grant funding were met with challenges during the application process, preventing some Tribes from receiving critical funding.
- How Tribes Can Benefit from the Inflation Reduction ActWes Benally is discussing the Inflation Reduction Act and its impact on Tribal Nations with State and Local Tax Senior Manager Thomas Miller.
