The Indian Health Service (Indian Health Services) is a US government agency that provides health care to Native Americans. The Indian Health Services employs an average of 5,951 people, of which 4,210 work in the Hospital Health activity. The agency's appropriations for Fiscal Years 1969 and 1970 provided for an increase of 460 new positions, but 340 of these positions were eroded due to administrative and legislative limitations. In order to meet complete staffing requirements for its hospital facilities, the Indian Health Services estimates that it would need 225 to 250 employees per 100 average daily patients hospitalized and 120 employees per 100,000 outpatient visits. The actual ratios for fiscal year 1968 were 164 per 100 average daily patients and 47.8 per 100,000 outpatient visits. The Indian Health Services estimates that it needs to add 300 positions in fiscal year 1970, 50 of which would be in the Oklahoma Area. The cost of these additional employees would be $545,000 in fiscal year 1971 for Oklahoma and $3,000,000 for the rest of