Trauma Emergency Services Fund

28% [of the contributions* go] to the Trauma Emergency Services Fund administered by the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System.

Arizona Tribes have contributed $243.4 million since FY2004, giving $21.6 million in FY2014 to the Trauma and Emergency Services Fund . More than 64 hospitals provide trauma care and emergency services in Arizona and benefit from this fund. In addition, Tribes’ support for first responders and healthcare provid-ers includes:

• The Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community’s donation of a new fire engine to the Glendale Fire Department.

• Multiple contributions from the San Carlos Apache Tribe to the Globe Fire Department in Gila County that funded personal protection equipment for firefighters and a thermal imaging camera—equipment that would otherwise have been out of reach to a department facing post-recession budget cuts. Wellness.
• A $42,000 contribution from the Pascua Yaqui Tribe and $29,000 from the Tohono O’odham Nation in 2014 and 2013, respectively, for Santa Cruz County sheriffs’ motorcycles.
• The Gila River Indian Community’s $250,000 multiyear grant to the Southwest Center for HIV/AIDS in Phoenix, part of a fundraising campaign to renovate the Parsons Center for Health and Wellness.