John R Reeves III, MHA
Healthcare operations executive. Founder of Indigenous Healthcare Advancements and 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've founded two companies, run a tribal health system through COVID without losing revenue, taken a single dental clinic and grown it into a four-site Tribal FQHC, served 252,000 urban Indian patients in Los Angeles, and built a 42,000 square foot joint-venture facility with IHS on a small reservation in South Dakota.
I served four years 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.
Two decades, eight seats, 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.
- 2025 to presentHenderson, Nevada
Founder and President
Indigenous Healthcare Advancements
Founded in 2020. Active engagements include executive leadership retainers and health-services expansion projects across California urban tribal programs and tribal economic development entities. IHA builds and operates clinics, ships technology platforms (Market Intelligence, IHA Suite, WayFinder, Equity Dashboard), and consults from the operator's seat.
- 2025Los Angeles, California
Chief Executive Officer
Urban Indian health and community-services organization
Led an urban Indian organization serving over 252,000 American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian individuals across Los Angeles and Orange counties. Drove strategic growth, operational excellence, and community engagement, advancing holistic wellness models that integrate traditional healing with modern medical practice.
- 2022 to 2024Coastal Oregon
Tribal Chief Operating Officer, Health
Tribal health system, Oregon Coast
Took a 20-year dental-only Tribal program and built it into a four-site Tribal FQHC. Grew staff from 8 to 48. Secured the first $1.4M IHS Case Management approval in IHS history. First in Oregon to implement an 'outside-the-four-walls' billing mechanism. First-of-its-kind telehealth pod deployment in Indian Country. Hired 12 new providers into a region that had not seen growth in 20 years.
- 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. Increased revenue 30% through COVID. Acquired local OB/GYN, Podiatry, and Pediatric practices, extending IHS MOA distinction beyond IHS into the local market. Established a regional COVID testing partnership across two counties and the tribal system.
- 2015 to 2022Escondido, California
Founder and CEO
Tribal Healthcare Consultants
Founded to support struggling Tribal Health Organizations. Evolved to also serve critical access hospitals, non-profit hospital systems, rural health clinics, FQHCs, and private physician groups. Notable work: 50% revenue lift in 8 months for a struggling RHC. 130% revenue lift in 18 months for a THO. $1.2M overspend managed down without eliminating a single position. 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. Inherited a region ranked 49 of 50 in productivity, brought it to consistent top 10 monthly. Established FMC's first ever Seattle market footprint, profitable in the 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.