John R Reeves III, MHA
Healthcare operations executive. Founder and President of Indigenous Healthcare Advancements, which began as Tribal Healthcare Consultants. Two decades inside tribal health systems, urban Indian health, critical access hospitals, and rural healthcare.
The work predates the company. It will outlast it.
My career has been spent inside the systems the mainstream model doesn't fit. Critical access hospitals. Urban Indian health centers. Rural pediatric and mental health practices. Tribal nations. Indigenous Healthcare Advancements is the current vehicle for this work, but the work predates IHA and will outlast it. The thread is the same wherever I'm sitting: build healthcare that fits the community, run it from the inside, and leave it stronger than I found it.
I began consulting in 2013. The practice became Tribal Healthcare Consultants and was rebranded as Indigenous Healthcare Advancements in 2020. I've led a Tribal health system through COVID. Working within Tribal health programs, I've helped expand a single dental clinic into a four-site Tribal FQHC and facilitated a 42,000 square foot joint-venture facility with IHS in South Dakota. These are organizational results, built with the people delivering care and the communities they serve.
I served in the United States Army at Tripler Army Medical Center before any of this started, and I bring that operating discipline into every seat I take.
Nine career chapters. One throughline.
Each role taught a different part of healthcare operations: clinical, executive, commercial, governmental, military. The work has always been about communities the standard model overlooks.
Career details reviewed . Company origins clarified .
- 2020 to presentHenderson, Nevada
Founder and President
Indigenous Healthcare Advancements
I rebranded Tribal Healthcare Consultants as Indigenous Healthcare Advancements in 2020 and have served as Founder and President since then. My consulting work began in 2013, before the practice was formalized as Tribal Healthcare Consultants. IHA brings healthcare operations, technology, and consulting together, including executive leadership retainers and health-services expansion across California urban tribal programs and tribal economic development entities.
- 2025Los Angeles, California
Chief Executive Officer
Urban Indian health and community-services organization
Led an urban Indian health and community-services organization working with American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian communities across Los Angeles and Orange counties. The work focused on operations, community engagement, and holistic wellness models integrating traditional healing with modern medical practice. Community context: the American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian population of Los Angeles County is 263,000.
- 2022 to 2024Coastal Oregon
Tribal Chief Operating Officer, Health
Tribal health system, Oregon Coast
Led the operating expansion of a dental-only Tribal program into a four-site Tribal FQHC. The program grew from 8 staff to 48 and recruited 12 providers. The work included a $1.4M IHS Case Management approval, an 'outside-the-four-walls' billing mechanism, and telehealth pods.
- 2017 to 2018, 2021 to 2025Kauai, Hawaii
Clinic Administrative Director
State critical access hospital system
A two-hospital, eight-clinic critical access system serving 30,000 patients. Boosted provider capacity 187.5% in six months via the 'Sweet 16' initiative. Reduced clinical days in AR by 61.4% in four months.
- 2018 to 2021Northern California Coast
Chief Executive Officer
Tribal health system, Northern California
A nine-clinic Tribal health system serving 20,000 patients across multiple tribal nations and two counties. Reported to a 32-member Board. System revenue increased 30% through COVID, kept-visit rates rose 30%, cancellations fell 38%, and no-shows fell 5%. Brought local OB/GYN, Podiatry, and Pediatric practices into the system and established a regional COVID testing partnership across two counties and the Tribal system.
- Consulting began in 2013Escondido, California
Founder and CEO
Tribal Healthcare Consultants
My consulting work began in 2013, later taking shape as Tribal Healthcare Consultants before the 2020 IHA rebrand. The consulting work expanded to critical access hospitals, non-profit hospital systems, rural health clinics, FQHCs, and private physician groups. Results across that work include a 50% revenue lift in 8 months for an RHC, a 130% revenue lift in 18 months for a THO, and a $1.2M overspend managed down without eliminating a position. Also served as interim CEO of a rural pediatric and mental health practice in Oregon.
- 2013 to 2015Portland, Oregon
Director of Operations, Inpatient Services
Fresenius Medical Care, Pacific Northwest Region
32 hospital inpatient dialysis programs across Alaska, Washington, and Oregon. Annual operating budget over $60M. The region moved from 49 of 50 in productivity to consistent top 10 monthly. Established a Seattle inpatient services footprint, profitable in its second month. Outperformed FY2014 EBIT budget by $650,000.
- 2009 to 2012South Dakota
Clinic COO and Interim Health Administrator
Tribal health center, eastern South Dakota
P.L. 638 health center serving 1,300 patients. FY2010 revenue increased $500,000, most profitable year in facility history at $1.2M. Facilitated the development of a 42,000 sqft state-of-the-art joint-venture facility with IHS, creating 20 reservation jobs.
- 2000 to 2005Honolulu, Hawaii
Medical Specialist
United States Army, Tripler Army Medical Center
Family Medicine Clinic. Eventually served as the noncommissioned officer in charge. Recipient of the Global War on Terror Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Overseas Service Ribbon Medal, and Army Good Conduct Medal.
Where I show up for the field
- 2025 to presentMHA Alumni Advisory Board, University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management.
- 2020 to 2022Board of Directors, Health Center Partners of Southern California.
- 2019 to 2021Board of Commissioners, Partnership HealthPlan of California (Medi-Cal).
Where I trained
- Master of Health AdministrationUniversity of Minnesota, January 2014.
- BS, Healthcare ManagementNational American University, May 2009. Sole recipient of the NAU Outstanding Achievement Award in Health Care Management, Class of 2009.
Veteran
United States Army, 2000 to 2005. Tripler Army Medical Center, Family Medicine Clinic. Recipient of the Global War on Terror Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Overseas Service Ribbon Medal, and Army Good Conduct Medal.
Bring me into the work
Advisory, interim leadership, board engagements, speaking. If your community needs someone who has done it, not just studied it, let's talk.